“I know that when I look at today’s Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can’t coexist with a strong social safety net; if you’re going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can’t make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it’s an agonizing issue.” IfsKnowsLooksFactsFeelingsSeemsCareTodayAmericaStrongSocialSidesIssuesOffersSafetyDemocratSeekingImmigrationIncomeHealth CareDecentGrandparentBetter LifeCoexistSafety NetAgonizingMixed Feelings Author:Paul Krugman
“40 percent of people who come to visit America on a visa overstay their visa and we have no idea where they are. On 9/11, at least 2 of the hijackers were here on visa. They were traveling back and forth to the Middle East. And we really had no idea where they were or what they were doing. And they were overstaying their visa. So there are problems I think in the immigration system that need to be fixed for our safety.” PeopleThinkingNeedsIdeasProblemAmericaMiddlePercentSafetyEastImmigrationNo IdeaFixedMiddle EastBack And ForthVisa Author:Rand Paul
“I'm not comparing myself with Donald Trump or anybody else - but the people are fed up with the politicians ignoring the problem. The people are fed up by if they say something about the influx of the mass immigration from mostly Islamic countries, what they really feel is the threat for the safety of their daughters who go to school or their parents who walk in the park or themselves going shopping on a Thursday evening in Holland - they are being called racist if they make a remark about, 'hey this is not our country anymore.'” PeopleIfsFeelsCountryProblemSchoolParentWalksTrumpPoliticianMassDaughterSafetyThreatImmigrationOur CountryHeyEveningCompareParksIslamicRacistFedsShoppingRemarksFed UpThursdayHollandWalks In The Park Author:Geert Wilders
“Having been a governor and now having the privilege to serve as vice president, it heartens me to know the passion that President Trump has for ensuring our system of immigration, the way people come into this country is operated in a way that puts safety and security and the well-being of every American, regardless of their race or creed, first and foremost.” PeopleCountryPassionPresidentSecuritySafetyImmigrationVice PresidentSafety And Security Author:Mike Pence
“Why do you people want to continue to import people that are going to end up placing a burden on our population? Why? If we're going to have an immigration policy, why don't we seek the best? Why do you people purposely want to go out and bring people in who are gonna end up being a burden? Now, you can define that as not learning English, not being able to have a job, being on the social safety welfare net, however you want to define it. But that's what Donald Trump means, because that's precisely what the Democrats want to do.” PeopleMeanPolicySafetyDemocratBurdenImmigrationWelfare Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.” PeopleHelpingSpeakFeetPolicyBrokenSolutionsProgramSafetyStartingImmigrationGet BackHelping PeopleEducation SystemDependencyMobilitySafety NetImmigration PolicyUpward Mobility Author:Paul Ryan
“Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions of applicants who seek to come here lawfully. Additionally, the framework carves out a special exception for agricultural workers that has little justification.” WayShouldLittlesImportantAmericaGoalMillionsEconomyAchieveSpecialIndustrySafetyComplexesWorkersFavorsImmigrationReformExceptionImmigrantsJustificationMaintainingFrameworkImmigration ReformUnclearAmerican EconomyFood SupplySkilled Workers Author:Mike Lee
“Gotta have safety at our borders. We're a sovereign nation, gotta protect our borders. Make sure the workplace doesn't become a magnet for folks to be hired without the authorization. And then let's be realistic and sensible about how we approach all those folks who made America their home, established businesses, have children who have gone on to be valedictorians at their high school - and let's do these things in a very sensible way.” WayChildrenMadeHomeSchoolAmericaNationsGoneProtectApproachHigh SchoolSafetyFolksImmigrationBordersRealisticSensibleSovereignWorkplaceMagnetImmigration ReformValedictorians Author:Xavier Becerra
“But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English, pay a significant fine, go to the back of the line, but they can then stay here and they can have the ability to enforce a minimum wage that they're paid, make sure the worker safety laws are available, make sure that they can join a union.” WantGivingLawLinesAbilityPayFinePaidSafetyUnionsWorkersAvailableSignificantImmigrationMinimumCitizenshipPathwaysMinimum WageLearning English Author:Barack Obama
“Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.” ThinkingKnowsWellsImportantMovingNationsIssuesEconomicSecurityConversationMembersSafetyImmigrationMoving ForwardWell BeingGoing AwaySenateKeep MovingKeep Moving ForwardPublic Safety Author:Janet Napolitano
“Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.” CountryMatterStatesCareSchoolInterestEconomyEffectsSafetyImmigrationLocalsHealth CareBordersIllegalMexicoDeliveryIllegal ImmigrationPublic Safety Author:Roger Wicker
“Immigrants are supposed to be grateful. The narrative arc of immigration, in which one flees their own failing society to come to a better place, a country that was under no obligation to accept them but did, demands perpetual gratitude. And it exists, this gratitude, but the narrative makes no room for the many shapes it comes in, its many less straightforward forms. I harbor no ill will toward the immigrant who waves the miniature flag on the sides of the Independence Day parade, who says honestly and plainly: I love this country. But nor do I judge the immigrant who is as emotionless and pragmatic about the nation-state as the people who run that nation-state are so regularly emotionless and pragmatic about immigrants, who says honestly and plainly: I don't love this country, don't love any country, patriotism being the property of an entirely different kind of life than luck has given me; I live here because it will always be safer to live on the launching side of the missiles. I live here because I am afraid.” NationsFearGratitudeSafetyImmigrationPatriotismImmigrantsCountriesLove Of Country Book:One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This