Ruben Hinojosa Quotes

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

Illegal immigration undermines legal immigration.

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.

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

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.

I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.

Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.

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

When President Trump and I arrived in Washington, there was a new sense that the crisis of illegal immigration would now be taken seriously.

The first thing we need is for President Obama to finally enforce current immigration law and strengthen our borders. To take up any other agenda is bad policy for the American people and bad politics for Republicans.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.

However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.

There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.

Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.

Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.