Paolo Gentiloni Quotes

Can you really send back people to where they are fleeing from?

We will have a mechanism for dealing with people in this country that - you heard the word humanely again. It is going to be fair. It is going to be tough. But there will be no path to legalization, no path to citizenship unless people leave the country.

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.

All those who are here can stay. I don't say send them home like he does.

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

Immigration shall be encouraged

I will continue sending migrants home until the last migrant reunites with his family and loved ones.

I would not invest in a Trump hate wall. We don't need to be protected from immigrants that are coming here seeking asylum and refuge.

Whether it's military resources or whatever it is doesn't matter. We need more detention facilities, more immigration judges, we need the ability to adjudicate these claims right on the spot without releasing people. If they don't have a credible claim of persecution and the vast majority do not, they get deported immediately.

Long before the migrant crisis, Sweden had codified its form of humanitarianism into the country's domestic and foreign-policy framework.

We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.

Safely welcoming those seeking refuge into our country is the right thing to do.

It has never been illegal to be a refugee.

No one disagrees that undocumented criminals should be deported.

A question has to be asked: if you are a genuine asylum seeker, why have you not sought asylum in the first safe country that you arrived in? Because France is not a country where anyone would argue it is not safe in any way whatsoever, and if you are genuine, then why not seek asylum in your first safe country?

We need deportation centres.

Deporting asylum seekers back to violence does not reflect the values of our country.

We need to increase deportations.

Stopping and returning illegal migrants to their countries of origin must become standard procedure.

It's very important that people understand that for refugees to come into the USA is very difficult. What upsets me about the whole situation is that people don't know the difference between a migrant and a refugee; they don't have respect for what people are coming from - the people who against it - and they have completely forgotten this is what built our country, the diversity. When it is put forward that masses of people are dangerous, and the actual numbers and the situation are proven to be completely the opposite of the way they're presented publicly, it's horrible.

Under my administration, anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of America and back to the country from which they came.

My party's supporters have seen how European political leaders are allowing asylum seekers and migrants to come to us and how they're spending billions of euros on them. In Dubai, the police drive Lamborghinis. These countries aren't poor. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states should take care of these people. They're closer, have the same religion, the same climate, the same culture.

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity

We now have two options: We can commence operations at the Hotspots in Italy and Greece and continue to do nothing - in which case they would soon be overflowing. Or we can show responsibility and organize a distribution system that takes into account the limits of each individual member state. Migrants, for their part, must recognize that, while they have a right to protection, they do not have the right to freely choose the country. In addition, it is clear: Not everybody can come to us.