Quotes about Immigration

We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it.

Deporting asylum seekers back to violence does not reflect the values of our country.

America has an obligation to secure its borders, but it is wrong to pass laws that treat human beings as something less than human. If my father were alive, he would be in the forefront of the struggle for a fair and humane reform of our immigration laws.

As children my grandparents were refugees. Eventually they got to the U.S. - in 1950 or something. They grew up as refugees. Their earliest memories are of living in a home with their family. It's in my blood, I guess, to have a fear about encouraging fascism.

I feel like there's this misconception that immigrants come here and just don't care about the system and paying taxes, and that's not true.

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

This election [2016], and I believe this, is our last chance to secure the border, stop illegal immigration and reform our laws to make your life better.

The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

I'm against exclusion of any kind - whether that's restricting people from Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. or kicking merchants off our platform if they're operating within the law.

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.