Michael Gove Quotes

We can bring immigration down to sustainable levels.

We're continuing to work to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands.

The reason we have to close the back door of illegal immigration is so that we may keep open the front door of legal immigration.

It's perfectly reasonable and responsible policy for any nation to maintain its sovereignty, to protect its borders. And [Donald] Trump does not believe in ending immigration. He's never proposed that.

Immigration provides further justification for multiculturalism by creating an ever larger aggrieved class …. If we don’t significantly reduce immigration numbers, the assimilation problem will only get worse.

You can’t fix legal immigration until you fix illegal immigration.

I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers.

UKIP believe that immigration can be an extremely positive thing. But it has to be controlled.

Public support will dwindle if the public thinks that free movement means undermining of social security systems... we need to get that right.

To fix our immigration system, we must change our leadership in Washington and we must change it quickly. Sadly, sadly there is no other way.

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.

you cannot maintain popular support for immigration policy, multiculturalism, unless you can control your borders.

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 regulated immigrant inside labor standards, than it is to ever to compete against an illegal immigrant.

The key that opens that door is proving to the American public that illegal immigration is under control. And at this point, that argument cannot be made because it is not true, it is not under control.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

Immigration policy should be based on what is good for America, not what is good for Mexico. Immigration to America should not be the safety valve for Mexico.

Either you get tough and change your policies or I will shut down the border.

We cannot and will not surrender our border to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.

You can't just shut off the borders of a community.

There is not going to be a border. There will be a free movement of people just like the free movement of goods.

Unrestricted immigration has allowed the American Southwest to be invaded by aliens who may well in the near future … break the nation apart.

The U. S.'s moral responsibility to accept immigrants is not unlimited.

Illegal immigration undermines legal immigration.

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

The coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory thereof …. the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, and the same is hereby, suspended; and during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or having so come after the expiration of said ninety days, to remain within the United States