Immigration System Overhaul Quotes

We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.

Unfortunately for the United States most of these immigrants are not so desirable as those of ten years ago.

Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.

Activist court rulings, a broken infrastructure, and widening loopholes, have thrown our immigration system into an unmistakable chaos.

For too long the U.S. immigration system has focused on accepting low-skilled immigrants. Basic economics tells us that the surge of low-skilled workers depresses wages and harms the prospects of American workers.

I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.

I don't think it's good for economy to have a broken immigration system.

Our immigration system is broken.

Both parties want it now. They want comprehensive immigration reform, and they want open borders.

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers - not punish them ... And for this reason I support replacing the H-2A program and implementing new policies that will bring our illegal agricultural workers out of the shadows, as a first step in the process of overhauling our nation's immigration system.

We have to educate our communities about the immigration system and dispel the myths that have been fed to us. Immigration isn't going to go away. A wall isn't going to 'solve' the issue.

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

Our whole immigration system is the theater of the absurd….

Our immigration system is broken.

I think comprehensive immigration reform while securing your border and dealing rationale with 11 million is the only way we're going to solve this problem.

I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law. The United States must institute comprehensive reforms that conform to the realities of the era in which we live.

Democrats and Republicans agree on most of a unified, politically viable, and workable immigration reform package. Both parties agree that border security is a key part of any strategy.

America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?

Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.

Everyone agrees that our immigration system is broken. Building a wall with Mexico isn't going to fix it.

Legal immigration is good for America, if it's controlled and structured via the legal process, of course. But the problem is the system we have in place right now is broken. For example, it is completely family based which means that it's based not on what you can do or what talent you have or what merit you bring or what job you could fill, but rather on whether you know someone who already lives here.

If the president wanted to fix our broken immigration system, he could start by securing the border and enforcing the laws already passed by Congress.