Immigration Control Quotes

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

We all agree on the need to better secure the border and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants. We are a generous and welcoming people, here in the United States, but those who enter the country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.

Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promises a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. Then it really is an impossible thing.

We could have free immigration if we did not have a welfare state. In principle I would like to see free immigration.

The only real solution is comprehensive immigration reform that secures our borders and provides a path to legal status for non-felons who are here without proper legal documentation.

Why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements … Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us.

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.

My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned.

There should not be any immigration policy. We should welcome anyone who wants to come here.

We can delay and effectively stop for a temporary period of indefinite length the number of immigrants into the United States. We could do this by simply advising our consuls to put every obstacle in the way and to require additional evidence and to resort to various administrative devices which would postpone and postpone and postpone the granting of the visas.

People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture...

We cannot and will not surrender our border to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.

You who are so-called “illegal aliens” must know that no human being is illegal.

A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

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

If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

When it's well managed, migration works in the national interest, for our communities, economy and country.

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.

Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.

It's the federal government's responsibility to secure our borders. We passed Senate Bill 1070 as another tool in order to protect the citizens of Arizona. We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

… we are answerable to an electorate which is uncomfortable with destabilizing mass immigration.

The issue of migration has played a key role in all of our member states, wherever we are. Only we, as a European Union, can convince our citizens that we do have an answer to this - not deny migration, not pretend you can solve it by building fences and walls, not pretending we can solve it by letting everybody in.

I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on people who really need freedom.