Mazie Hirono Quotes

I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.

Of all the questions I get asked as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, there are two - asked in various permutations via email, social media or in person - that chill me to the bone: 'Why don't you just make yourself legal?' And: 'Why don't you get in the back of the line?'

The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

We need to be talking about things like the DREAM Act. We need to also be talking about e-verify. We also need to be talking about border security.

The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.

We need legal immigration as an alternative to illegal immigration and a way of getting the millions of unauthorized immigrants already here to get legal and get in compliance with our laws.

I believe it could very well be unconstitutional to ban people. We are a country of immigrants, but we have to know who's coming in. They need to come in legally. And we need to be sure that we have been able to have them satisfy the criteria that we set for them to come into our country.

In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who have made lives for themselves and their families in the United States.

I do not support amnesty. I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers.

Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works.

We never have been closed to immigration.

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

We are for abiding by the Constitution and recognize that Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 enumerates the power of establishing 'an uniform process of naturalization' to the Congress.

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers.

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

You cannot grant amnesty. If the American people see us granting amnesty they will never again believe in legal immigration. They will never again support it, and that's wrong for our country, bad for our future.

There were many factors as to why I decided to come out as being undocumented. One of them is because I look the way that I look; I don't look like the 'stereotypical undocumented' person.

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.

I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.

I'm not anti-immigration.

It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform.