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If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.
Immigration and border security are two separate issues, but Paul Ryan has taken the wrong side on both of those, in fact.
We've had some big waves [of immigration]. And tremendously positive things have happened. Incredible things have happened.
Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.
How is it having more control if there is double the immigration as there would be under an Australian style points system?
Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.
We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.
The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country.
While this country has always had a generous immigration policy, we simply cannot condone individuals coming here illegally.
The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.
There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
I have fought back against voices out there that want to curtail immigration, because immigration is critical to our success.
It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.
Nobody here's for open borders. When undocumented people are apprehended, they should be sent back to wherever they came from.
The American people love immigration. They just want it obeyed. They want the laws obeyed. They want there to be assimilation.
Drafting local police into Trump's immigration crackdown undermines public safety and is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.
I'm going to deliver a detailed policy address on one of the greatest challenges facing our country today, illegal immigration.
Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
I served as Attorney General John Ashcroft's chief adviser on immigration law at the U.S. Department of Justice during 2001-03.
To advocate both for more immigration and for faster wage growth for the working and middle class is to work at cross-purposes.
Immigration is the major issue everywhere, and even the countries where it isn't the number one issue, it ends up becoming one.
I want very much to see some sort of compromise reached in the area of immigration... so that we could move on to other issues.
While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.
Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.
In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.
Although it requires some adjustment by those already here, immigration has made the U.S.A. the most prosperous nation on Earth.
Anyone who doesn't agree with the Left's approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic.
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.
I try to walk in the lane God wants for me, working on immigration, prison reform, strengthening the family through my ministry.
The power of immigration, the power of the American dream, if you think about the American dream, it is the best brand out there.
Xenophobia is defined as the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. That fear should not dictate the immigration dialogue any longer.
Every day, children who are U.S. citizens are separated from their families as a result of immigration policies that need fixing.
Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.
It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.
When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.
To be concerned about immigration and the economy is not racist, but I do think there is a virus of racism that runs through Ukip.
Simply put, President Obama's immigration strategy is all about politics and getting credit rather than about families and people.
What I have always thought is that there should be a proper national conversation about what kind of immigration policies we have.
The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.
Looking to Donald Trump`s immigration speech can he hang onto his base if he softens his stance on the issue that got him this far?
Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
The media tends to cover immigration issues through the frame of how it impacts everybody but actual citizens of the United States.
The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy.
I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the situation in France, it must stop.