Tom Tancredo Quotes

Immigration reform is something that the Democrats have promised and the Republicans need.

In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.

Neither party wants to do anything about the immigration problem. The Republicans want the cheap labor. The Democrats want the votes.

The Democrats are fighting for illegal aliens. Donald Trump is fighting for American citizens.

If Democrats oppose a border wall, they're just saying they want continued, unendingly illegal immigration.

I've never met a Democrat in Congress who wants open borders or who doesn't believe in enforcing immigration laws.

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy.

If we continue to dump more Mexican immigrants on the country, we'll get to the point that we'll never have another Republican president.

You have one party that's in favor of open borders, and you have one party that wants to secure the border. And all day long, the American people are going to side with the party that wants to secure the border.

If the Democratic Party follows the path of open borders, then the Democratic Party is going to engage in self-immolation.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for border security as well. So again, this is not an issue about being anti-Mexican.

I'm not anti-immigration.

And I think for some - not all - but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.

A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.

Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.

If you can’t control your borders, you can’t control immigration. And if we can’t control immigration, there is no way re can reform immigration.

You can’ t be a national party in America and be perceived as an anti-immigration party.