Migration Rules Quotes

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

Immigrants are illegal, since once they set foot on European soil, they have violated the law.

If someone comes here illegally, we owe them absolutely nothing.

I'm not allowed to leave the country because I am under what you call DACA.

Reducing net E.U. migration need not mean undermining the principle of free movement. When it was first enshrined, free movement meant the freedom to move to a job, not the freedom to cross borders to look for work or claim benefits.

If we had an immigration policy, sanctuary cities would not be the symptom that manifests itself.

Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

We do have to treat people the way Americans always treat people, with the highest level of compassion and care. But they will have to be returned, because that is the law. If you ignore that, if you don't apply that - as heartbreaking as it may be - you are basically telling another 80,000 people to try to come.

Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own lands. But as a country, we cannot afford to have a total open-door policy without any restrictions on entry.

It is important that we enact immigration reform.

To the left, immigration is anybody who gets in, anybody who wants to come gets in. And that's not what immigration is. That's illegal immigration. And that's what is opposed.

If I had the good fortune of having the ability to influence people all over the world every time I spoke, I would do my best to make sure people understood why the United States of America is special, and then I would suggest that everybody who wants to come here, "I don't blame you, fine and dandy, there's a legal mechanism for this. We're not denying people the right to come to our country. There's a legal way to do it." That's another thing people forget.

If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.

Our national prosperity is built on our open borders. However, the reality is that if a points system is introduced in the UK it would be unavoidable for us in the Netherlands to implement similar proposals - and inevitable that many other EU countries would follow suit.

I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement.

I also talk about building a wall and oftentimes I'll say, and there's going to be a big beautiful door in that wall and people are going to come into our country because we want people to come in. We want people to come into our country, but we want them to come in legally.

I have a very hardline position, we have a country or we don't have a country. People that have come into our country illegally, they have to go. They have to come back into through a legal process.

We must make clear that if you come here illegally, you will be sent back home.

We need to bring control into movement of people coming into the U.K. from the E.U.