Immigration – Quotes

Illegal immigration can never

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it. Gail Collins

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. Gail Collins

You reduce illegal immigration

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. Gail Collins

If immigration reform passes,

If immigration reform passes, it’ll be a big victory for sanity – nobody really believes it’s healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it’ll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around. Gail Collins

You are never going

You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as Mexico, an end to immigration. You just won’t. The question is, if you make it humane and if you make it regulated. It’s much better for an American worker to compete against a … Read more

Immigration is not the

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American – economy, jobs, healthcare, education. Eva Longoria

I’m Latina. I was

I’m Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration…I can do aerobics in heels. Eva Longoria

There are two ways

There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That’s essentially the way we took California from Mexico and… Texas as well. But what’s going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by … Read more

People think [immigration] is

People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it’s so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don’t know that you can do that anywhere else. Esmeralda Santiago

Fortunately, both governments have

Fortunately, both governments have been in favor of studying the Mexican migration problem in greater depth. For the first time, I think, we will have something scientifically sound that says something about this phenomenon. The study is ongoing, and I hope that, with a push from both of us, it will provide a sound basis … Read more