“How is it having more control if there is double the immigration as there would be under an Australian style points system?” IfsWould BeStyleImmigrationAustralian Author:Sadiq Khan
“Enforcement priorities developed by my administration are not affected by this ruling. This means that the people who might have benefited from the expanded deferred action policies, long-term residents raising children who are Americans or legal residents, they will remain low priorities for enforcement, as long as you have not committed a crime, our limited immigration enforcement resources are not focused on you.” PeopleMeanChildrenLongMightActionTermCrimePolicyLowsResourcesCommittedFocusedPrioritiesImmigrationAdministrationLong TermAffectedEnforcementRulingRaising ChildrenResidents Author:Barack Obama
“In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.” PeopleWantCareCausesDecisionTraditionBackgroundsImmigrationImpulseKicksWho We AreGuaranteesNovember Author:Barack Obama
“I still am amazed by the reaction I get from people when I tell them that there was zero immigration in this country from 1924 to 1965. And the reason that people don't know that, A, they just don't know it, it's not reported, it's never been part of history class, history education.” PeopleKnowsStillsCountryReasonClassImmigrationReactionsZeroAmazedHistory Class Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's also hard to believe, because people alive today, immigration's been a daily event and a daily topic for their whole lives. They can't conceive of a period of time where there was no immigration.” PeopleBelieveHardWholeTodayAliveEventsPeriodsWhole LifeImmigrationTopicsLive For TodayHard To Believe Author:Rush Limbaugh
“From 1924 to 1965, 41 years, essentially, there was no immigration. Try telling people that in the midst of this debate and they won't believe you. They'll think you're making it up. They'll think you're lying about it.” PeopleThinkingTryingYearsBelieveLyingDebateImmigrationMidst Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We had had mass immigration from the late 1800s all the way through the early 1900s to the 1920s, and we had to pause the immigration in order to for the new arrivals to assimilate, to become Americans, to learn English, for one thing. The one thing - or not the one; there are many different things.” WayDifferentOrderOne ThingLateMassImmigrationDifferent ThingsPausesArrivalsNew Arrivals Author:Rush Limbaugh
“One of the defining characteristics or difference between today's illegal immigration and the immigration of old is the immigrants of the late 1800s through the early 1920s came here desiring to become Americans. They wanted to become part of what was a unique and distinct American culture. They were all coming from tyranny of one kind or another.” KindTodayWantedCultureDifferencesLateUniqueTyrannyImmigrationCharacteristicsImmigrantsIllegalDefiningAmerican CultureIllegal Immigration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Immigration, as promoted by the Democrat Party, really is a voter registration drive, pure and simple. It is a desire by the Democrat Party to find another way to remain in perpetual power, by creating as many dependent voters as they can.” WayDesireSimplePartyPureCreatingDemocratImmigrationDependentVotersPerpetualAnother WayRegistrationVoter Registration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do not have many skills and therefore are not as capable as others of providing for themselves. That's the gold standard in immigration, if you're a Democrat in 2016, 2002, 2000, as long as this current debate has been raging, that's their objective.” PeopleIfsWayLongHas BeensSkillsCapableStandardsGoldDemocratCurrentsRageDebateImmigrationBest WayObjectivesDependentVotersProvidingGold Standard Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Why do we start immigration in 1965? Guess whose idea it was? Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy, 1965, we needed to reinstitute the immigration laws. It wasn't based in humanity, although that's the way it was sold. It was rooted in registering voters.” WayIdeasLawHumanityNeededImmigrationVotersRootedImmigration LawsTed Kennedy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Barak Obama said as much today talking about immigration. (imitating Obama) "I don't care what happens today. It is gonna happen. We are going to have comprehensive immigration reform. We're gonna have amnesty for these 11 or 12 million. It's gonna happen. You just wait." And that's the way they go about it. Defeat is not something that, in their minds, is lasting.” WayMindSaidHappensCareTodayWaitingTalkingMillionsDefeatDon't CareImmigrationReformI Don't CareLastingComprehensiveImmigration ReformImitatingAmnestyBarak Obama Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Legal immigration is a much tougher group of people to stereotype and to identify as potential new Democrat voters.” PeopleGroupsDemocratImmigrationVotersStereotypeLegal Immigration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Legal immigration is a process. You learn everything about the people coming in. You find out how many of 'em are prone to vote Republican. You don't ask 'em this; you just learn.” PeopleAsksProcessRepublicanVoteImmigrationEmsLegal Immigration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“This is what everybody's forgetting about [Barak] Obama and his immigration law and his executive action and his amnesty on it, the Supreme Court decision. Immigration law is settled.” ActionLawDecisionForgetCourtSupremeImmigrationExecutivesSupreme CourtAmnestyImmigration LawsCourt DecisionBarak Obama Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We already have immigration law, and it is being violated. Obama's executive amnesty is not the settled law. [Barak ] Obama's executive amnesty is outside the law, and that's why it's been stayed.” LawImmigrationExecutivesAmnestyImmigration LawsBarak Obama Author:Rush Limbaugh
“A federal appellate circuit looked at what [Barak] Obama was doing and said he can't do it. Immigration law is settled.” SaidLawImmigrationCircuitsImmigration LawsBarak Obama Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Barak] Obama's immigration behavior, executive amnesty, this DREAMer stuff - everything he's doing - is outside the law.” LawStuffBehaviorImmigrationExecutivesDreamerAmnestyBarak Obama Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Immigration law's already settled. That's why we have people known as illegal immigrants, because the law is very clear. They're not being called illegal immigrants because people are biased and prejudiced.” PeopleLawKnownClearImmigrationImmigrantsIllegalBiasedIllegal ImmigrantsImmigration Laws Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Let's not even talking about chain migration, immigration, which is another trick, but all of these things are designed to penetrate the heart exactly is it has yours so that there can be a modification in the law, a moderation of the law here for this instance, and over here for another instance, and there for another.” HeartLawTalkingTricksImmigrationInstanceChainsModerationPenetrateMigrationModificationExactly Is Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Our immigration law sucks, and we need to redo the whole thing, comprehensive immigration reform. And what that's gonna be is anybody who wants to come and vote Democrat, we're gonna send 'em a limousine and bring 'em in.” WantNeedsWholeLawVoteDemocratImmigrationReformEmsComprehensiveImmigration ReformImmigration LawsLimousinesRedos Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The reason Donald Trump has supporters... I can go through the list for you. The issues are border/immigration, jobs, military, "make America great again..."” I CanReasonJobsAmericaIssuesMilitaryTrumpListsImmigrationBordersSupporter Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The UK had plenty of people in their country just like we have here who had the same attitudes about immigration that you find on the American left and the Democrat Party here. That the Brits, because of colonialism and because the British Empire had been so unfair to people all over the world it was time to pay the price. And you had liberals who thought that all of this was making a grand diverse society and population which would improve things in the UK.” PeopleWorldCountryLeftPartyPayAttitudeDemocratPopulationBritishImmigrationPlentyEmpiresDiverseColonialismUnfairPay The PriceBritish EmpireBritsDiverse Society Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don't think immigration is what's happening in our country. I think an invasion is what is happening, particularly southern border.” ThinkingCountryHappeningsImmigrationOur CountryBordersSouthernInvasion Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There is no immigration policy in the US that is permitting what's happening. What's happening here is happening outside the law, that our leaders do not wish to enforce or acknowledge. And the same thing happened in the UK.” LawWishLeaderHappenedPolicyHappeningsThings HappenImmigrationAcknowledgeImmigration Policy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“This immigration business has been going on in the UK much in advance of the European Union making an issue of it.” Has BeensIssuesUnionsImmigrationEuropean Union Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The fact that you have a policy of such consequence directly affecting millions of people and you have a legal question of great consequence about the scope of the president's authority to act in implementing the immigration laws in this way and you have a one-line decision from the court affirming by an equally-divided court, it's an inevitable consequence of where we are.” PeopleWayFactsLawPresidentLinesDecisionMillionsPolicyAuthorityConsequenceCourtImmigrationInevitableDividedScopeAffirmingOne LineImplementingImmigration Laws Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“The promise to take back control of our borders. I will end free movement, introduce an Australian-style points-based system for immigration, and bring numbers down. With my leadership, it will be delivered.” EndsNumbersStyleMovementPromiseImmigrationBordersIntroducingAustralianFree Movement Author:Michael Gove
“Have you noticed that when it comes to immigration we ride herd on legal immigration pretty damn hard, and who is it that really is subject to most of the limits there? Have to say it’s white immigrants.” HardWhiteSubjectsLimitsImmigrationDamnImmigrantsHerdsLegal Immigration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I will do everything that is required in order to bring immigration down to a level that is manageable, that the public believe is right.” BelieveOrderLevelsImmigrationManageable Author:Michael Gove
“Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.” ImmigrationCandidates Author:Theresa May
“They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.” PeopleGivingPolicyDemocraticBritishPrioritiesImmigrationBrusselsImmigration PolicyHealth Education Author:Michael Gove
“She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges.” MayDoneCollegeDown AndImmigrationAbolishTheresa Author:Damian Green
“When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.” BigsGovernmentChristianChurchRolesIssuesImmigration Author:Shane Claiborne
“I had not been involved in any way in planning the event in Mobile. My staff maybe, had really been contacted, but I had never talked to Donald Trump about him coming to Mobile, and I decided - I had something else to do but it became so clear that it was going to be such a big event that I should be there. And he had already adopted my immigration views, in large part, and he was saying things I thought were valuable, about immigration.” WayShouldBigsViewsClearEventsTrumpInvolvedDecidedValuablePlanningImmigrationStaffAdoptedMobileBig Events Author:Jeff Sessions
“I didn't endorse Donald Trump but I thanked him for coming, thanked him for raising issues that were important, thanked him for talking about immigration and considering the views that we had worked on for a number of years, on what a good immigration policy should be.” ShouldYearsImportantViewsNumbersTalkingIssuesPolicyTrumpImmigrationConsideringImmigration Policy Author:Jeff Sessions
“I think Donald Trump is moving to - and will continue to move to the economic argument, as to why what he's doing is - represents a commitment to stand up to big business, to international corporations who favor more immigration and lower wages - that's what they favor - and a defense of the interest of the American people who go to work every day.” PeopleThinkingBigsMovingInterestEconomicTrumpCommitmentArgumentInternationalDefenseFavorsImmigrationCorporationsWagesBig Business Author:Jeff Sessions
“Republican voters believe we should have a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest. They don't believe we should enter into - commit the United States to further globalist policies that diminish the sovereignty and freedom of American to act in its own interest.” ShouldBelieveStatesInterestUnitedUnited StatesPolicyRepublicanShould HaveDon't BelieveImmigrationCommitVotersSovereigntyDiminishNational Interests Author:Jeff Sessions
“As the witness testified before my Subcommittee on Immigration, that barriers magnify the ability of every Border Patrol agent to be more effective. And so if you make up your mind, you can build substantial mileage barriers. It will increase the ability of our officers to perform, and the most important thing is, it sends a message to the world, the border is closed.” IfsWorldMindImportantAbilityMessagesIncreaseImportant ThingsImmigrationAgentsWitnessBordersBarriersOfficersMake Up Your MindMileageBorder Patrol Author:Jeff Sessions
“Thirty years people have been asking for a lawful system of immigration to end this lawlessness, and government on both parties have refused to give it to them.” PeopleGivingYearsHas BeensEndsGovernmentPartyAskingImmigrationThirtyThirty YearsLawlessness Author:Jeff Sessions
“It's perfectly reasonable and responsible policy for any nation to maintain its sovereignty, to protect its borders. And [Donald] Trump does not believe in ending immigration. He's never proposed that.” BelieveDoeNationsPolicyTrumpProtectResponsibleImmigrationBordersReasonableSovereignty Author:Jeff Sessions
“[Donald Trump] said we're going to have a big door. He means lawful immigration will continue, but we're not going to allow the nation to be at risk in this fashion.” MeanSaidBigsNationsRiskDoorsFashionTrumpImmigration Author:Jeff Sessions
“I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country.” CountryWishBillsImmigrationOur CountryComprehensive Author:Condoleezza Rice
“In the old days when I was enforcing illegal immigration laws, when I had the authority from the 287G, everybody accused me that 100,000 people from foreign countries left town. They either went back to where they came from or whatever. So if this little old sheriff can cause, if you want to believe it, many, many people leaving and going back to their country, why can't you do that nationwide?” PeopleIfsWantBelieveLittlesCountryLawLeftCausesAuthorityTownsLeavingImmigrationIllegalAccusedOld DaysIllegal ImmigrationForeign CountriesSheriffsImmigration LawsPeople Leaving Author:Joe Arpaio
“I think [ immigration] is still is a problem, whether it's 11 million or 2 million. Why is it - why have the situation decreased? Are we going to say because of the crackdown or are we going to say that the jobs are not here?” ThinkingStillsProblemJobsSituationMillionsImmigration Author:Joe Arpaio
“You know why you have to give [Donald] Trump credit, whether you don't like him or not? He opened the door.Now there's a lot of talk about immigration. That's good. Nobody wanted to talk about it.” KnowsGivingWantedDoorsTrumpCreditImmigration Author:Joe Arpaio
“People who know the economy is rigged in favor of big money, people who know that our middle class continues to decline and we have to go outside of establishment politics and economics, people who know that we need to reform a broken criminal justice system and we need comprehensive immigration reform.” PeopleKnowsNeedsBigsJusticeClassEconomyMiddleBrokenEconomicsCriminalsFavorsImmigrationReformMiddle ClassEstablishmentDeclineComprehensiveJustice SystemCriminal JusticeImmigration ReformCriminal Justice SystemRiggedPolitics And Economics Author:Bernie Sanders
“It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.” StatesBeliefInterestUnitedUnited StatesEconomicImmigrationPursueReformFirmComprehensiveImmigration ReformFirm Beliefs Author:Barack Obama
“When it comes to immigration, I think Americans expect that our immigration process is orderly and it is legal.” ThinkingProcessImmigrationOrderly Author:Barack Obama
“America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.” YearsProblemAmericaPresidentYears AgoViolentImmigration Author:Barack Obama