Elton Gallegly Quotes

A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.

Governor Romney is a real hardliner on illegal immigration.

I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

Resolutions of the State Council of Ohio, Junior Order of United American Mechanics urging passage of laws to prevent the landing on our shores of the vicious, lawless, pauperized, and anarchistic elements of foreign countries.

Deportation is [not] a punishment; it is simply a refusal by the government to harbor persons whom it does not want.

There is no such thing as free immigration. Every self-governing nation is going to determine what sort of people it will admit through its boundaries.

We need employer sanctions to avoid illegal immigration so that legal immigration may dominate.

We might have some problems with some countries. Why should we not take into consideration the country of origin [in making immigration decisions]?

We all agree on the need to better secure the border and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants. We are a generous and welcoming people, here in the United States, but those who enter the country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.

I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

Everyone that've been here, working, living as Americans - just give them a green card.

Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.

I'm a Canadian citizen, but I do have a green card.

I have the travel documents. I have a green card. I can go anywhere.

I think that [John Kelly] will bring law and order. And what I'm hoping for with this is that the restoration of the rule of law, especially with regard to immigration, that is the main principle that needs to be driven by the secretary of homeland security.

It seems as though our leaders have almost forgotten about legal immigration and are just leaving our borders open, which is a detriment culturally, financially, and in a lot of other realms for native people.

Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish in D.C. He is absolutely an open borders guy, through and through.

The fact is, as we leave the EU, Britain will be able to choose its own immigration system rather than having free movement with one part of the world and a managed system with elsewhere.

A big goal of the liberal Democrats in Congress is to try to do away with any effective cooperation to enforce federal immigration laws.

Even people who have successfully obtained a visa are sometimes being turned back at the airport. Such incidents have never happened in the past but are increasing now because even low level officers of the border patrol department are being entrusted with too much discretion power on how they execute the laws.

There are a lot of Latinos who believe that allowing illegal immigrants to cut in front of the line ahead of those pursuing the legal path sends the wrong signal. The GOP needs to articulate that message respectfully but boldly.

We have farmers in southwestern Yuma, so immigration - they wanted to talk to us about it.

If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.

Once you've got through immigration, one is always made to feel very welcome in America, once they've let you in. It's a great place to be.