Browsing Topic Best Legal Immigration Quotes

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?

As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same time, I believe our system of legal immigration needs to be re-examined. As part of this re-examination, I support a modest, temporary reduction in the annual rate of legal immigration.

Number one, it is important that we fix the legal immigration system, because right now we’ve got a backlog that means years for people to apply legally. And what’s worse is, we keep on increasing the fees, so that if you’ve got a hard working immigrant family, they’ve got to hire a lawyer; they’ve got to pay thousands of dollars in fees. They just can’t afford it. And it’s discriminatory against people who have good character, we should want in this country, but don’t have the money. So we’ve got to fix that.

I think we need a real plan, which is why I have offered a much more specific approach to securing the border, fixing the legal immigration system and addressing illegal immigration.

No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn’t give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.

We need to fix our legal immigration system.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

I support legal immigration.

Within just a few years immigration as a share of national population is set to break all historical records. The time has come for a new immigration commission to develop a new set of reforms to our legal immigration system in order to achieve the following goals.

I support legal immigration. I don’t support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits, the revenue from immigrants’ payments could reduce taxes. Paying for the right to immigrate would also negate the argument that immigrants get a free ride when they gain health care and other benefits. Moreover, making immigrants pay would attract the type of immigrants who came much earlier in American history: young men and women who are reasonably skilled and want to make a long-term commitment to the United States.

For those here illegally today, who are seeking legal status, they will have one route and one route only. To return home and apply for reentry like everybody else, under the rules of the new legal immigration system that I have outlined above.

We ought to increase legal immigration for our country’s advantage. The high-tech world we are now dominating is dependent on educated folks, but we’re short…of workers. It is to our nation’s advantage to encourage high-powered, smart people to come into our country.

This is a serious problem of major concern, and we have got to approach it in a way that is consistent with this nation’s tradition as a nation of immigrants, focusing on legal immigration, supporting that in the right way and doing everything possible consistent with the Constitution to control illegal immigration, and we will continue in those efforts.

We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants – some more recent than others – but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known – if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.

We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We’re trying to make sure that employers that want to cooperate have a system whereby they can verify the employment status of a person that they are seeking to hire. It is part of a comprehensive initiative in which we look both at the border, at the workplace, at criminal aliens, in an attempt to have a comprehensive effort aimed at stopping illegal immigration while at the same time promoting legal immigration according to principles of due process.

There’s got to be a point where we fix the system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration and show respect for people, a kid who might have been here for 10 years, that might be a valedictorian of their high school to say, no, no, no you’re not allowed to go to college. I just think there’s a point past which we are over the line.

I’m a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

…you’re never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.

We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.