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Thursday 25th of April 2024

Immigration As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible open borders betrayal of America. I’ll fight it all the way. A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they’re blaming it on me.  I say, that’s OK. Please blame it on me.  Please. Donald Trump, January 28, 2024, proudly trying to block a bipartisan Senate border security bill that gives Republicans every border security provision they've been  clamoring for for years without providing a path to citizenship for immigrsnts already here, because he believes border security will be a winning issue for him in the 2024 election © 2024 Kwiple.com
Immigration Denied as a matter of discretion for security-related reasons. Text of a form letter sent by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services to Iraqis applying for a visa after risking their lives for years by serving Americans in Iraq as drivers, translators, etc. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Immigration Economists will argue that a slow-growing population needs more immigrants to sustain the growth of its labor force. But a population is a citizenry as well as a labor force, and when it grows slowly, it can less easily assimilate newcomers. Immigration is to natural population increase as wine is to food: a good complement, a bad substitute. David Frum, Trumpocracy © 2019 Kwiple.com
Immigration Germany has taken in roughly 800,000 Syrian refugees in the past two years. The US has taken in fewer than 20,000. On a per capita basis, therefore, Germany has absorbed 160 times more refugees than the country that was built on immigrants. Edward Luce © 2017 Kwiple.com
Immigration I don't want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas. Karl Rove, justifying George W. Bush's amnesty immigration plan © 2016 Kwiple.com
Immigration I had a popular commentator four weeks ago that I talked to that told me flat out, before they saw any of the contents of the bill, any of the contents, nothing was out at that point, that if you try to move a bill that solves the border crisis during this presidential year, I will do whatever I can to destroy you, because I do not want you to solve this during the presidential election. By the way, they have been faithful to their promise and have done everything they can to destroy me. James Lankford, February 7, 2024, conservative Republican senator who negotiated a border security bill with Democrats © 2024 Kwiple.com
Immigration I said [in 2018], you know, “Why can’t we allow people to come in  from nice countries, I’m trying to be nice.” Nice countries, you know, like Denmark, Switzerland? Do we have any people coming in from Denmark? How about Switzerland? How about Norway? Donald Trump. who reportedly raised $50 million from the millionaires and billionaires who attended the April 6, 2024, fund raiser hosted by billionaire John Paulson in Palm Beach, where he called for immigration from “nice”/white countries © 2024 Kwiple.com
Immigration Immigration is religion’s last, best prayer in England. Muslims and west African Christians are among those bucking the native trends towards secularisation. … The quandary for conservatives could not be more awkward. Is a nation of non-Christian faith (and where Christian, often non-Anglican) better than a godless one? What in the end matters more, a citizenry that looks and sounds familiar, or one that upholds traditional morals? Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, December 16, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Immigration In a sense you might distill the challenge facing liberals to a choice: Take more responsibility for restricting immigration, or get used to right-wing populists doing it for you. Ross Douthat, New York Times, September 23, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Immigration In some cases they're not people, in my opinion. But I'm not allowed to say that because the radical Left says that's a terrible thing to say. These are animals, OK, and we have to stop it. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Immigration It’s a cliché that the US is a nation of immigrants — and a cliché that, for the past few years, has been just plain wrong. This nation of 330mn people managed to settle a meagre 11,000 refugees in the fiscal year that ended in September 2021, the lowest number in more than 40 years. Patti Waldmeir, Financial Times, April 2, 2022 [11,000 of 330,000,000 = 0.000033%] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Immigration Justice permits us to do less for would-be immigrants than we are required to do for citizens. But less is not nothing. David Miller, Strangers in Our Midst © 2018 Kwiple.com
Immigration Lack of familiarity apparently breeds contempt. Paul Krugman, New York Times, May 9, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Immigration Late last year, the US Census Bureau said international immigration into the US was at its lowest in decades. Net international migration had added 247,000 people to the population between 2020 and 2021, the bureau said, compared with a high of more than 1m between 2015 and 2016,  and lower than the net inflow of 477,000 people added between 2019 and 2020. … Immigration into the country was already in decline before the onset of the pandemic. The number of visas issued by the state department's overseas posts fell 25 per cent between 2016 and 2019. Between 2016 and 2020, the number of visas issued fell by more than 60 per cent. Financial Times, April 9, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Immigration People were sick.  We don’t want them coming into our country  with contagious diseases, and they have it. All of a sudden you see these contagious diseases spreading, and everyone is saying, “I wonder where they came from.” I can tell you where they came from. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Immigration Plan to deny welfare to immigrants still alive headline, Grand Rapids Press, January 15, 1995 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Immigration The question is why Norwegians would want to come to America today, except as aid workers. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, October 1, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Immigration The secret's out. For Republicans, the border is a moneymaking grievance machine. And if we passed our border bill and fixed the problem, Republicans literally wouldn't know what to do with their days. … Republicans killed the toughest bipartisan border bill that they have ever seen because they don't want to fix the border. They want to keep it a mess because they think it helps them politically. Chris Murphy,  the Democrat who negotiated the border bill with Republican James Lankford that Trump ordered Republican senators to kill, which they did © 2024 Kwiple.com
Immigration Shinzo, you don't have this problem, but I can send you 25 million Mexicans and you'll be out of office very soon. Donald Trump to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe © 2018 Kwiple.com
Immigration They’re rough people, in many cases, from jails, prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums. You know, insane asylums. That's Silence of the Lambs  stuff. Hannibal Lecter, anybody know Hannibal Lecter? We don’t want ’em in this country. Donald Trump, comparing immigrants to a fictional serial killer who eats his victims © 2024 Kwiple.com
Immigration … though the United States  accepts more immigrants each year than any other country, the percentage of its population that is foreign-born is lower than in countries like Norway, Gabon, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates — none of which considers itself “a nation of immigrants.” Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Immigration To call America a nation of immigrants  is not wrong, either as a factual statement or an evocation of American myth. But that fact coexists with this one: Over the past century, the United States has deported more immigrants than it has allowed in. Since 1882, it has deported more than 57 million people, most of them Latino, according to Adam Goodman, a historian at the University of Illinois at Chicago. No other country has carried out this many deportations. Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Immigration Trump Highlights Immigrant Crime to Defend His Border Policy. Statistics Don't Back Him Up.  headline, New York Times, June 22, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Immigration We have some bad hombres here, and we're going to get them out. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Immigration What is Roe vs Wade? Two ways of coming to the United States. Joe Wong, Chinese comedian © 2021 Kwiple.com
Immigration When natives have lots of children of their own, immigrants look like reinforcements. When natives have few children, immigrants look like replacements. No wonder that, according to a 2016 survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute and The Atlantic, nearly half of white working-class Americans agree with this statement: “Things have changed so much that I often feel like a stranger in my own country.” David Frum, The Atlantic, April 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Immigration When people say they are angry about “immigration,” … they are not always talking about something they have lived and experienced. They are talking about something imaginary, something they fear. Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Immigration You have one party that's in favor of open borders, and you have one party that wants to secure the border. And all day long the American people are going to side with the party that wants to secure the border. And not by a little bit. Not 55-45. 60-40. 70-30. 80-20. I'm talking 90-10 on that. Stephen Miller, who, along with Jeff Sessions, concocted the family separation fiasco based on their shared belief that most Americans hate immigrants as much as they do  © 2018 Kwiple.com