Bill Ayers Quotes

Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.

Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.

This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for border security as well. So again, this is not an issue about being anti-Mexican.

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.

In my plan, I call for breaking up ICE and returning its enforcement functions to the Department of Justice.

Inhumane treatment of the undocumented cannot be rewarded with repeated budget increases. It goes against our country's most fundamental values and cannot continue. We must cut I.C.E.s budgets until these concerns are addressed.

I served as Attorney General John Ashcroft's chief adviser on immigration law at the U.S. Department of Justice during 2001-03.

If elected, I will work with federal leaders to rehouse the non-immigration enforcement functions of ICE - including human trafficking and money laundering investigations - elsewhere in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security while immediately eliminating funding for enforcement and removal functions.

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

Obama's Justice Department has also targeted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe bills himself as America's Toughest Sheriff for good reason. Maricopa County is responsible for one out of every four deportations in the country.

The tragic conditions at detention facilities are the result of an intense surge in migration across the border.

The need for physical border security is a very real one. But equally important is the need to focus on the source of the problem: mass emigration from Central America.

The U.S. government has a sacred, solemn, inviolable obligation to enforce the laws of the United States to stop illegal immigration and to secure and protect the borders.

The inhumane treatment of families turned an immigration issue into an immigration crisis.

There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere.

Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain's immigration system was in desperate need of reform.

I've been to Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney and it's all barbed wire, it's like a big jail.

If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.

Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.

It chills my soul to think of American children behind barbed wire.

The first general immigration act was passed as recently as 1882 and provided only for the exclusion of convicts … of lunatics, of idiots, and of persons likely to become a public charge.