But I can tell you another engine for growth and job creation would be comprehensive immigration reform.
We need a new tax system. We need entitlement reform. We need immigration reform. These are not easy things. But it is going to take our political system working better.
65 immigration acts went through right at the time of the Great Society program. So pre-1970 immigrants – and that’s basically when it kicked in – pre-1970 immigrants, 30% went home. They couldn’t make it.
So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol.
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.
The E.U. is removing the ability of nations to act in the interests of their people, including over immigration, which should be a force for good for our country.
SDPD works to protect everyone regardless of their immigration status because trust between the community and law enforcement is key to stopping crime and keeping neighborhoods safe. If someone commits a crime, they will be held accountable whether or not they are a citizen.
Everybody will say that they’re not opposed to immigration; they’re opposed to illegal immigration. That’s what I’m saying.
Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain’s immigration system was in desperate need of reform.
Some Brexiteers are passionate defenders of the benefits of immigration. Others just can’t wait to slam the doors shut.
I support legal immigration. I don’t support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.
We must continue to stand up for what’s right and push for bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform.
See, as a libertarian, I am actually far more liberal on the issue of immigration than many people might expect.
Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
All across this country, undocumented immigrants are living in fear of seeing their families torn apart because of our broken immigration system. Many of those immigrants are children who were brought here at a young age through no fault of their own.
We must pursue immigration reform – it’s something we have to do, something that starts with border security.
Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.
When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won.
The countries where you have the most fear of immigrants are the countries where you have the least immigration.
America’s growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with America’s growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
I’m concerned that Speaker Boehner is getting ahead of House Republicans when he commits to getting a ‘comprehensive approach’ to immigration taken care of ‘once and for all.’
I supported Arizona’s immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job.
You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can’t pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and ’60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
It’s about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can’t find work. It’s about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.
Whenever I meet a Korean, I ask about their immigration history.
Romney says he loves immigration.
The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery – and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved – not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.
Immigration is not going to be a ‘side issue’ in 2016 – it is the issue.
Although it requires some adjustment by those already here, immigration has made the U.S.A. the most prosperous nation on Earth.
Heavy handedness and entitlement goody bags are no way to solve our immigration and border crisis, but I’ve learned to expect almost nothing from the dimwits in power who feel entitled to take everything.
My colleagues and friends in the Freedom Caucus believe something very simple: Our country deserves a secure border and immigration laws that put the safety, security and prosperity of Americans first.
Immigration is a legitimate concern, but it’s not a good reason to leave the E.U.
The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.
Remember common sense? Bring it back. Abolishing ICE, our main federal immigration enforcement agency, is a colossally stupid idea. Floating the possibility of impeaching Brett Kavanaugh, whose confirmation just jolted the GOP back out of its coma, is painfully dumb.
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.
We must fix our immigration system so we control who comes and goes, and that starts by securing our southern border.
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
It might sound strange coming from a home secretary – I’m a big fan of immigration and what it means for our country, in terms of how it makes us stronger.
There’s no doubt immigration can put pressure on public services, especially in places like Slough, but I’m not one of those people who think that immigration is always a bad thing.
As we exit the E.U., there must be a new approach to immigration that has the consent of the British people and is managed in their interests.
My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn’t want them to be checking his writings.
If we don’t do a better job of getting illegal worker immigration policies in place, it’s going to be a significant impediment to a number of industries.
For immigrant women, the very act of immigration is about opportunity, equality, and freedom. Women immigrants come to America to care for their families, escape gender-based violence, or express their sexual identity.
At the basis of a country’s immigration policy is the recognition that a country has the right to pursue its interests first, and whenever it wishes to be altruistic and humane, this is instantiated without ever risking the danger of its citizens and/or its cultural values.
You won’t hear the leadership in the Republican Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate who know that illegal immigration has to be stopped and legal immigration has to be reduced. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.
The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.
If immigration reform doesn’t happen, that doesn’t say good things about our democracy, that everybody wants it, but Congress couldn’t pass it.
Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.
I offered early on – I think I was governor about a month when I met President Obama – and said, ‘I would like to visit with you in reference to border security, in reference to immigration. I’d like to be part of the discussion because I lived on the border all my life.’ I’ve never received a call.
For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They’re much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of getting caught, against the benefits of a better life.
Immigration and border security are two separate issues, but Paul Ryan has taken the wrong side on both of those, in fact.
And I think for some – not all – but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.
Sometimes, of course, there’s no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you’ll land at a low-traffic hour, there’s nothing you can do.
