Immigration Quotes

I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.

Californians have properly objected on the sound basic ground that Japanese immigrants are not capable of assimilation into the American population.

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

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

If the country were open on its borders, new forms would certainly immigrate, and this would also seriously disturb the relations of some of the former inhabitants. Let it be remembered how powerful the influence of a single introduced tree or mammal has been shown to be.

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.