Immigration Crisis Quotes

My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned.

Safely welcoming those seeking refuge into our country is the right thing to do.

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.

… 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.

When I first arrived in the U.S. House of Representatives, I naively believed that it was primarily the Democrats who were committed to open borders. But I quickly learned the entire Republican establishment also supported a policy of immigration non-enforcement.

Because of Congress’s failure to act, States like Arizona have no choice but to take a strong action to discourage the further flow of illegal immigration through our borders.

The inhumane treatment of families turned an immigration issue into an immigration crisis.

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.

The one place where I do think our culture today has to be extremely careful is this whole thing about illegal aliens. Because any time you start defining a significant block of the population as 'others,' or as less than you, you start getting into dangerous waters.

What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us.

If Democrats don't want the government to shut down, support border security. It's that simple.

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras have all agreed to send additional consular officers from Guatemala, from Honduras, from El Salvador, send them to the U.S. border so that we can more quickly and humanely identify unaccompanied children and process their individual removal.

I support DACA, but I also support protecting the border.

I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.

The simple truth is that we’ve lost control of our own boarders.

Soros wants to fill Italy and Europe with migrants.

The undocumented should pay penalties for the laws they broke by coming here, but we should remember that the founding fathers were willing to break up an empire to achieve their dreams.

Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

I completely understand why people are concerned about immigration. There's no silver bullet, no one thing you can do to suddenly deal with all the problems and concerns with immigration, and that includes leaving the E.U.

People are frustrated. This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States, and people feel like we're being taken advantage of. We feel like despite our generosity, we're being taken advantage of.