Roy Beck Quotes

What many of us object to is the politicians who, for whatever reason, forget that societies cannot easily absorb huge numbers of new citizens. I resent the suggestion that this perfectly reasonable view is motivated by racial hatred or personal spite.

When California passes a law saying that English is the official language, it can only mean one thing: That English is no longer the official language.

[Referring to immigrants:] They're all over the place, and they don't speak English. Do we want more of this?

Western societies will have to focus on the dangers of too rapid cultural change. That might involve some limits on the rate of immigration and on the kinds of immigrants who are permitted to enter.

I want to live in a Britain whose residents are determined to speak English.

As to other foreigners it is thought better to discourage their settling together in large masses, wherein, as in our German settlements, they preserve for a long time their own languages, habits, and principles of government, and that they should distribute themselves sparsely among the natives for quicker amalgamation.

Immigration provides further justification for multiculturalism by creating an ever larger aggrieved class …. If we don’t significantly reduce immigration numbers, the assimilation problem will only get worse.

English should be acknowledged once and for all as the official language of the United States.

Every day our nation grows a little darker from massive nonwhite immigration, high nonwhite birthrate and increasing racial miscegenation.

They say that immigrants don’t speak English. So? Who cares. Even the Irish learned English after a while.

Miami is America’s most diverse city… We have 140 languages we speak..

Massive immigration has only just begun. It is the biggest problem facing France, Europe and probably the world. We risk being submerged.

Our Constitution has affirmed that Gaelic is the national language. Yet there is scarcely one person in a thousand throughout Ireland who cannot speak English and scarcely one in ten who can speak Irish easily.

No society has a boundless capacity to accept newcomers, especially when they are poor and under-nourished.

When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.

France can certainly accommodate foreign people on its soil long-term, those with foreign citizenship... as long as they respect French laws and French values, which is often a problem on the immigration issue. It's not really a problem with Israel on this topic.

Our forefathers increased and decreased the influx of peoples because America was building a melting pot and because certain ethnicities often brought with them certain securities and degrees of productivity.

I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts.

You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.