The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders. – John Linder
Pat Buchanan attacks me as ‘worshipping at the church of GDP.’ But in a CNBC ‘Kudlow and Company interview’, I reminded him that I also worship at the church of Catholic Mass, as do the vast majority of the Mexican immigrants. – Lawrence Kudlow
Here’s what we must do: Completely reform the vetting process for immigrants and foreign visitors. Change the screening process. Come up with a new visa-application review process. Stop this nonsense of marriage-visa fraud. And in the meantime, seal the borders. – Lawrence Kudlow
I argued for a wartime moratorium on new visas and new immigrants because of the substantial danger of ISIS terrorists infiltrating our system. – Lawrence Kudlow
My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien. – Leonard Nimoy
There is this real divisive theory that if we allow more immigrants to come into this country, that they’re going to take our jobs. It is simply not true. Every person I know who wants to work in a hotel and change sheets can do it. – Marcia Fudge
Throughout Philippine history, it’s the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy. – John Gokongwei
I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable and yet still enables us to get a crop out of the ground in south Georgia. – John Linder
The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants – legal and illegal – contribute more to this country than they take out in social services. – Juan Williams
It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents. – John Linder
As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes. – Luis Gutierrez
One nice thing about the benefit of long experience with la frontera is that we in Texas don’t have to run around getting all hysterical about immigrants. The border is porous. When you want cheap labor, you open it up; when you don’t, you shut it down. It works to our benefit – it always has. – Molly Ivins
Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it. – John Shadegg
We must honor our country’s tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants. – Jose Serrano
A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home. – John Shadegg
The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in ‘Blood Bound’ and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here. – Patricia Briggs
We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox… and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line. – Rupert Murdoch
American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we’re going to talk about Native American cuisine. – Ruth Reichl
I’d be 100 percent supportive of a minimum wage – kind of industry specific, maybe regionally specific – for guest workers, so that we’re not creating incentives for employers to bring in immigrants to lower the price of labor. – Ron Johnson
The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa. – Otto Schily
It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation. – Roger Mahony
It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest. – Roger Mahony
When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants. – Ruchi Sanghvi
Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move. – Samuel P. Huntington
It was this society and culture that among other things – including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe – attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country. – Samuel P. Huntington
The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people. – Richard J. Daley
Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake. – Roger Mahony