Tom Tancredo Quotes

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years.

If we continue to dump more Mexican immigrants on the country, we'll get to the point that we'll never have another Republican president.

And I think for some - not all - but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.

I think there are many in the Democratic Party that want immigration to be unsolved issue at least for the time being, because it's more useful as a campaign issue than it is as a solved issue.

You can’ t be a national party in America and be perceived as an anti-immigration party.

Immigration reform is something that the Democrats have promised and the Republicans need.

When I first arrived in the U.S. House of Representatives, I naively believed that it was primarily the Democrats who were committed to open borders. But I quickly learned the entire Republican establishment also supported a policy of immigration non-enforcement.

The Democrats are fighting for illegal aliens. Donald Trump is fighting for American citizens.

If Democrats oppose a border wall, they're just saying they want continued, unendingly illegal immigration.

The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.

Neither party wants to do anything about the immigration problem. The Republicans want the cheap labor. The Democrats want the votes.

There was an obvious link between 30 or 40 years of a policy of uncontrolled immigration and the social explosion in French cities.

We have opened our doors to unrestricted immigration, partly because capitalists want plenty of cheap labor, which is not a good reason; and partly because the immigrants want to come, which is not a sufficient reason.

… we are answerable to an electorate which is uncomfortable with destabilizing mass immigration.

Every two years for Congress, four years for President, illegal immigration comes out as a political issue.

You won't hear the leadership in the Republican Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate who know that illegal immigration has to be stopped and legal immigration has to be reduced. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.

We cannot allow voters to fall for the spin that a vote to leave is the only way to deal with concerns about immigration. We can do far more to address both the level and impact of immigration while remaining in the E.U.

Democrats in sanctuary states support amnesty for illegal aliens, just so long as those illegal aliens don't wind up in sanctuary states.

I think 'immigration' is a bad word for many Republicans.

Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.