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“Getting my legal situation fixed takes a bit longer than we all thought: twelve years to be exact. Not a big deal. Only most of my life.”
“For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.”
“Also for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had been grilled by reasonable, doing-their-job officials about the length of and distinguishing moles u...”
“If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.”
“I want good people to come here from all over the world, but I want them to do so legally. We can expedite the process, we can reward achievement and excellemce, but we have to respect the legal pr...”
“If you have laws that you don't enforce, then you don't have laws. This leads to lawlessness.”
“When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness...”
“Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the co-author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform bill, has said the failure of that bill was a function of the lack of an ID card system.”
“I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.”
“Legal immigration is the primary source of low-wage immigration into the United States.”
“I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.”
“I think what we need to do is to have an immigration system where legal immigration is easier.”
“If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.”
“On immigration, Trump needs an articulate policy that aims to secure the border and keep out illegals while letting in skilled legal workers.”
“We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.”
“The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.”
“Also – for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had been grilled by reasonable, doing-their-job officials about the length of and distinguishing moles ...”
