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Bennet, William J. and Jack Kemp, (Co-Directors of Empower America)

"We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration."(Forward to Employment-Based Immigration and High Technology: Issues and Recommendations, February 1996)

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Borjas, George J. (Harvard Prof. of Public Policy, Author Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy)

[Commenting on the "open-border" proposal of Mexican President-elect Vicente Fox] "Research that I conducted with my Harvard colleagues Richard Freeman and Larry Katz showed that the large-scale immigration of low-skill workers during the 1980's and 1990's, by increasing the pool of low-skill workers, reduced the relative wage of native workers with less than a high school education by 5 percentage points. This group's wages would be further eroded under Mr. Fox's proposals.

Some may say that Mexican immigrants take jobs that Americans do not want, but a more sensible statement is that Mexican immigrants take jobs that Americans do not want at the going wage. The service sector remains alive and well even in those parts of the country that have not been penetrated by heavy immigration. It just costs more to have a manicured lawn in New England than in Southern California.""...enacting Vicente Fox's proposals now would limit the economic opportunities available to America's less advantaged and would cause a higher level of immigration than the United States could comfortably sustain."("Mexico's One-Way Remedy," Op-Ed New York Times, July 18, 2000)

“The evidence suggests that American would be better off if immigrants were more skilled. And it can be plausibly argued that a smaller number of immigrants would be beneficial for the country. But major changes in immigration policy occur only rarely. Therefore, the road ahead is long and fraught with dangers. But the adverse effects of the ‘Second Great Migration’ will not go away simply because some do not wish to acknowledge their existence.”(Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy, from The Milken Institute Review)

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Boscan, Saul - (Dir. Chicago office of Nat. Assn. of Latino Elected & Appointed Officials)

"I hear Latinos saying, 'We have enough.' That's amazing. We are trying to get more citizens, gain more power."(Source: ?)

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Brown, Kathleen - (CA State Treas.)(Commenting on CA has about 14,000 undocumented state prisoners and about 10,000 in county jails.)

"We need to deport these criminals and negotiate agreements requiring that they do their time in their own countries."

"Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes were committed could demand that the convicts' country of origin incarcerate the prisoners for the terms to which they were sentenced.... Foreign felons in U.S. prisons are exacerbating out budget and law enforcement problems.... We will never get countries to take back their prisoners unless we have some leverage. NAFTA gives us that opportunity."(San Francisco Chron. 7/26/93

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Brinton, Henry - (Pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church, Alexandria, Va.)

"Predominantly white mainline churches are declining in membership, but growth will come if they open their doors to the Africans, Latinos and Asians moving into their neighborhoods."(Washington Post, Mar. 16, 1997)

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Bryant, Rep. John W. (D-TX)

(on the Investor Visa Program during the brief House debate on the measure)"This provision is an unbelievable departure from our tradition of cherishing our most precious birthright as Americans." "Have we no self-respect as a nation? Are we so broke we have to sell our birthright?"(Congressional Record, Date ?)

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Bucha, Paul W. - (President of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society)

"All of us owe our freedom and our prosperity to the sacrifices of immigrants who gave of themselves so that we might have more. We are fortunate and we are forever indebted to those who have gone before."(CMHS Press Release, Nov. 7, 1996)

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Buchanan, Pat (Presidential Candidate)

"On immigration policy, I believe we ought to call an immediate halt, stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration back to about 250,000 to 300,000, to more easily assimilate the Americans who've come here in the last 30 years.'(CNN "Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields," March 20, 1999)

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Burke, B. Meredith (demographer, senior fellow at Negative Population Growth, Inc.)

" Alas, there is no socially cost-free path to secure our environmental future. Short-term generosity is misplaced as it will ultimately destroy the future physical fabric of both this nation and the world. Policies aimed at restoring a viable population/environmental balance to this country while reducing our demands upon others will necessitate a closing of our borders to all but the immediate family of citizens.

" The moral path will entail reducing our resource consumption while broadening our obligation to the world's poor. We may have to endure an era of receiving nasty epithets such as "racist xenophobes" or "Hitlers" intended to silence those who will not overlook the reality of ecological constraints. We must reiterate that throttling our population growth is the most loving act we can perform for all peoples on this finite globe."(The Paradox of Clashing Values, 2000)

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Bush, Jeb (Florida Governor)

(From a letter to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno) "Preventing alien smuggling is the job of the federal government, and today the federal government is failing in its responsibility. ...Alien smuggling is increasing every month - as it has for the last two years and, according to the estimates of your own federal authorities, is expected to increase even more in the upcoming months. ...The federal government must do more, before other innocent people die off our shores at the hands of smugglers more concerned with profit than life. ...Despite the fact that the number of Border Patrol agents nationwide has more than doubled, there has been no increase in the number of Border Patrol agents assigned to South Florida in the last ten years. ...This is inexcusable.'' (Associated Press - Mar. 19, 1999 -- 5:27 PM)

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Bush, George (former U.S. President)

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Bush, George W. (Former Governor of Texas)

"I know we need to reform immigration, but at this point I don't support blanket amnesty. I don't think it will help us meet our goals."(Orange County Register, May 5, 2000)

"We ought to increase legal immigration for our country's advantage. The high-tech world we are now dominating is dependent on educated folks, but we're short...of workers. It is to our nation's advantage to encourage high-powered, smart people to come into our country." (Iowa Gazette, Jan. 6, 2000)

(On combatting illegal immigration )[Federal expenditures would be more effective] "...at the front end, to stop people from illegally entering our country, not at the back end, by reimbursing states after it has failed to enforce the border." [I] "would allocate additional resources to enforcing the border, so states such as Texas and California would not have the huge expenses they currently do."(San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 9, 1999)

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Byrd, Sen. Robert (D-WV) (Appropriations Committee Chairman)(On Clinton announcement of new Haiti policy)

"He (Pres. Bush) rightly decided that it was far better to return all Haitians than to encourage, deliberately or not, tens of thousands of people to take to the open ocean in unseaworthy, overcrowded boats.... When the Haitians sense the door has been cracked open, they will once again prepare their rag-tag armada and set sail for the land of plenty - America."(UPI May 10, 1994)

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Carter, Jimmy (former U.S. President)[referring in 1980 to the Marielito influx of Cubans and Haitians]

"Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened in a foreign country, carefully catalogued, and brought here a few at a time. This just didn't happen."(Miami Herald's 1993 series on Immigration, part one "U.S. Policy in Shambles")

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Catholic Bishops, National Council

"The two basic principles of Catholic social teaching are these: 1) all people have the right to emigrate in order to avoid persecution, war and economic deprivation; 2) all people have a corresponding right to immigrate (that is, to be received in a host country), for the same reasons. ...The Church's approach has frequently put it at odds with the prevailing attitudes among nation states which generally conceive of the rights of nations above those of immigrants. That is precisely what Catholic social teaching denies. For it conceives the right to migrate as a prior right rooted in the very nature of persons...."(Migration World, Vol. 22 #4, 1994, "New Directions in the Catholic Understanding of Immigration Rights" p.30 - Allan Figueroa Deck, S.J. (Assoc. Prof. Th., Loyola Marymount U. L.A., CA)

"We must raise our collective voice to protest this mentality [to restrict access to social services for illegal aliens] and call for a change of heart and a renewed commitment as a nation to solidarity with immigrants and refugees. ...For so many decades, the United States welcomed the stranger. ...While it is true that no one country can respond totally or take in all those seeking freedom in a new life, the world of nations simply cannot shut its eyes or doors. The most vulnerable in the world - those with nowhere to lay their heads because of persecution or injustice - should not be denied justice, safehaven or a new life."(Miami Herald, part 7, "Reform" Nov. ?, 1993)

"The march of Latin Americans to the United States shouldn't be understood as a wave of anger or revolutionary passion, but more as a peaceful conquest."National Catholic Register, Nov. 16, 1986 [citing comment of Father Florencio M. Rigoni, assistant secretary for migration for the Mexican bishops' conference, in La Jornada, Mexico City]

"...America is a dying nation. I tell the Mexicans when I am down in Mexico to keep on having children, and then to take back what we took from them: California, Texas, Arizona, and then to take the rest of the country as well." (The Wanderer, St. Paul MN May 6, 1987 [Citing Father Paul Marx, in homily for the International Mother's Day Walk for Life in Niagara Falls, at St. John the Baptist parish in the suburb of Kenmore.]

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Chang, Michael (Mayor of Cupertino Calif.)

(Representing a population grown from 7% Asian in 1980 to 23% in 1990 to 29% now, with 42% Asian school population)"Everyone knows that change creates anxieties."(San Jose Mercury News - July 3, 1998)

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Chertoff, Michael (Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security)

"I do not think people would have predicted two years ago we would wind up seeing the trend in terms of illegal immigration actually getting reversed. I think it is fair to say that we have done more in the last five years to address illegal immigration than in decades before. … I am not ready to say we are close to declaring victory, but I think we are now on the road to victory, if we are persistent and if we are determined to complete the job."
(DHS Press Release, October 23, 2008)

"I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules against illegal immigration, and I'll tell you what the answer is. The answer is that when the television cameras turn off and the spotlight moves to something else, there are a host of interest groups and advocacy groups who work very, very hard to make it difficult to enforce these rules. I'm not commenting adversely on their motivation, but I can tell you the effect of all of this is to wear down the ability of an agency to enforce the law.

"The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or a time to celebrate the end of the struggle. The threat is not going away. The enemy has not lost interest… Fundamentally, we're in a struggle about ideology. Terrorists want to remake the world in their own image and it is the image that is intolerant of the kinds of institutions that we cherish."
(Press Conference transcript, Dec. 12, 2007)

“So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the gap [in border security] that GAO has identified and recognize that there will be some costs to doing that? Or do we want to make sure that business isn't hampered and that people can move back and forth readily, and recognize that, if we don't put some barriers in place, we're going to wind up with dangerous people coming into the country?
(Press conference transcript, Nov. 11, 2007)

"We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective…We haven't been able to require every employer to enter a system in which they check the work status of their employees and determine whether they're legal, and without that, we don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective. And that would be the single greatest additional weapon we could use if we're serious about tackling this problem." [following the collapse of the 'Bush-Kennedy compromise' (S.1639).]
(Fox News interview, July 1, 2007 cited in Washington Times, July 2, 2007)

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Chiles, Lawton (Former Governor of Florida and former Senator)

"How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida does not have a foreign policy. This is a federal policy or absence of federal policy. It's so clear that we're not being treated fairly. We have to come up with a solution. It hurts your head trying to figure out what to do."(Miami Herald of Dec. 17, 1993)

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Chisti, Muzaffar (former Director., National Immigration Forum, an immigration advocacy group financially supported by the Ford Foundation)

"We reformed the [asylum] system to address the awful practices of the past. The reforms were well intentioned, thoughtful, humane. But they led to a considerable amount of fraud... [In 1991, immigrants began] shopping for airports. J.F.K. was seen as particularly porous. There are asylum-seekers from all over the world there whose claims are fraudulent. So we have a mess."(New York Times, Apr. 25, 1993)

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Christian Coalition, (Heidi H. Stirrup, Director of Government Relations)

"We agree that a tightly controlled, well-regulated system of legal immigration, like the one we have now, is essential to the security of this country. But scaling back the ability of Americans to reunite with their families will not improve national security, and could severely damage the American family."(Letter to Members of Congress, March 20, 1996)

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Cisneros, Henry - (Secty. HUD)

"There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have...[including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people here from other countries."(Washington Post 8/23/93)

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Clinton, Bill (former U.S. President)

(roundtable discussion on peace efforts: National Palace of Culture Guatemala City, Guatemala)"I think it's important for every country to enforce its immigration laws and try to protect its borders. We have very generous legal immigration laws, and we have many, many immigrants from Central America making a major contribution, positive contribution to the United States.

On the other hand, most of the illegal immigrants from Guatemala and other Central American countries are not law-breakers by nature; they're people who are seeking a better life. It's hard to leave your family and your home, and take the risks inherent in coming to a strange land without the approval of the law. And people do it because they want a better opportunity for themselves and their families.

I think there are two things that should be noted as we do try to enforce our immigration laws. The first is that we have to be sensitive and act with justice and understand the impact of recent events. The second is that the present American law is completely unfair in that it treats different --people from different countries in Central America differently. And it is a vestige of our, sort of, kind of our Cold War mentality, and how we were involved here.

I can do two things about that. The first is to try to change the law. And we will aggressively work to try to change the law to get parity, equal treatment for all people from Central America without regard to the political past, and whether the difficulties of the past were seen as coming from the right or the left. I think that's irrelevant. We should treat all countries the same.

The second is to use, to the maximum extent possible, whatever flexibility I have under present law to achieve the same goal. I will do that.(Tanscript of March 10, 1999

"Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue to discourage illegal immigration for it undermines control of our borders...and even more punishes hard-working people who play by the rules and who wait for their turn to come to the United States. Therefore we must enforce our laws, but we will do so with justice and fairness." (March 10, 1999 - San Salvador, El Salvador, text of speech to El Salvador Legislature)

Commencement Address at Portland State Univ."Let me state my view unequivocally: I believe new immigrants are good for America... But mark my words, unless we handle this well, immigration of this sweep and scope can threaten our union."

The driving force behind our increasing diversity is a new, large wave of immigration. It is changing the face of America. And while most of the changes are good, they do present challenges which demand more both from new immigrants and from our citizens. Citizens share a responsibility to welcome new immigrants, to ensure that they strengthen our nation, to give them their chance at the brass ring.

In turn, new immigrants have a responsibility to learn, to work, to contribute to America. If both citizens and immigrants do their part, we will grow ever stronger in the new global information economy.

But now we are being tested again -- by a new wave of immigration larger than any in a century, far more diverse than any in our history. Each year, nearly a million people come legally to America. Today, nearly one in ten people in America was born in another country; one in five schoolchildren are from immigrant families. Today, largely because of immigration, there is no majority race in Hawaii or Houston or New York City. Within five years there will be no majority race in our largest state, California. In a little more than 50 years there will be no majority race in the United States. No other nation in history has gone through demographic change of this magnitude in so short a time.

What do the changes mean? They can either strengthen and unite us, or they can weaken and divide us. We must decide.

Now, some Americans don't see it that way. When they hear new accents or see new faces, they feel unsettled. They worry that new immigrants come not to work hard, but to live off our largesse. They're afraid the America they know and love is becoming a foreign land. This reaction may be understandable, but it's wrong. It's especially wrong when anxiety and fear give rise to policies and ballot propositions to exclude immigrants from our civic life. I believe it's wrong to deny law-abiding immigrants benefits available to everyone else; wrong to ignore them as people not worthy of being counted in the census. It's not only wrong, it's un-American.

Let me be clear: I also think it's wrong to condone illegal immigration that flouts our laws, strains our tolerance, taxes our resources. Even a nation of immigrants must have rules and conditions and limits, and when they are disregarded, public support for immigration erodes in ways that are destructive to those who are newly arrived and those who are still waiting patiently to come.

We must remember, however, that the vast majority of immigrants are here legally. In every measurable way, they give more to our society than they take. Consider this: On average, immigrants pay $1,800 more in taxes every year than they cost our system in benefits. Immigrants are paying into Social Security at record rates. Most of them are young, and they will help to balance the budget when we baby boomers retire and put strains on it.

We should treat new immigrants as we would have wanted our own grandparents to be treated. We should share our country with them, not shun them or shut them out. But mark my words, unless we handle this well, immigration of this sweep and scope could threaten the bonds of our union.

So I say, as President, to all our immigrants, you are welcome here. But you must honor laws, embrace our culture, learn our language, know our history; and when the time comes, you should become citizens. And I say to all Americans, we have responsibilities as well to welcome our newest immigrants, to vigorously enforce laws against discrimination.

Ethnic pride is a very good thing. America is one of the places which most reveres the distinctive ethnic, racial, religious heritage of our various peoples. The days when immigrants felt compelled to Anglicize their last name or deny their heritage are, thankfully, gone. But pride in one's ethnic and racial heritage must never become an excuse to withdraw from the larger American community. That does not honor diversity; it breeds divisiveness. And that could weaken America.

Now, it's all very well for someone to say, everyone of them should learn English immediately. But we don't at this time necessarily have people who are trained to teach them English in all those languages. So I say to you, it is important for children to retain their native language But unless they also learn English, they will never reach their full potential in the United States.

One hundred and forty years ago, in the First Lady's hometown of Chicago, immigrants outnumbered native Americans. Addressing a crowd there in 1858, Abraham Lincoln asked what connection those immigrants could possibly feel to people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who founded our nation. Here was his answer: If they, the immigrants, look back through this history to trace their connection to those days by blood, they will find they have none. But our founders proclaimed that we are all created equal in the eyes of God. And that, Lincoln said, is the electric cord in that declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving people everywhere.(Presidential Documents, June 13, 1998)

"I support lowering the level of legal immigration by a moderate amount at this time. Legal immigration reform must be based upon principles that are pro-family, pro-work, and pro-naturalization, retaining opportunities for family reunification as the levels are lowered. We must not let this issue become divisive in this country."(AP Candidates' Views on Issues Sept. 12, 1996)

1996 State of the Union speech:"Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens." (The New York Times, January 24, 1996)

Weekly Radio Address "[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills. It's also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in line for years and years in other countries to be legal immigrants."

"Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare.

"It simply doesn't make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to living here illegally. That's wrong and we should stop it."

"There is actually a backlog in the deportation of illegal aliens of over 100,000. That's 100,000 people we have identified who are still awaiting the completion of their deportation hearings. I have instructed the Justice Department to get rid of this backlog.... We also have hundreds of thousands of people who have been ordered to leave our country who then disappear back into the population. I have instructed the Justice Department, and particularly the Immigration and Naturalization Service, to come up with a plan in which we can cooperate with the states to identify these people and move them out as well."(May 6, 1995)

Budget Message [citing 10/94 statement]"Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and protect refugees from harm. Our solutions rely on working in partnership with States and communities." (Feb. 1995)

White House press conf."It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that we have seen...in recent years. There is too much of it, and we must do much more to stop it." "The fact is that employer sanctions have been in the law...since 1986 but no prior administration has made a serious attempt to enforce them."(Associated Press report Feb. 8, 1995)

State of the Union Address, 1/24/95'All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants; the public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

"In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it."

"I recently spoke with Barbara Jordan of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, and I increasingly believe we need a system to verify employment eligibility. The Commission's recommendation of a national registry may be the way to go."(CAPS press release 10/24/94, Clinton spoke on 10/22/94 in Belmont, Calif.)

In response to Mayor Rice who asked about welfare reform and cutting off some recipients who would then become a local charge: "What we did with deeming rules were designed - it was designed to keep costs from coming on to the government that should be borne by families of immigrants who actually have incomes and can afford to pay."(June 13, 1994 Satellite Conf. of Mayors Dialog)

[referring to a Republican welfare reform proposal that would completely eliminate access to many government services by immigrants -- a proposal first floated by the White House][It] "has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants."(Washington Post Mar. 28, 1994)

"We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration."(Interpreter Releases, vol. 70, No. 39 pp.1325-31, 10/8/93)

"We can't afford to lose control of our own borders or to take on new financial burdens at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care and the education of our own people." (Washington Times, June 20, 1993)

"...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience."

"The simple fact is that we must not—and we will not—surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice."(New York Times, July 28, 1993)

"To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens low-paid, low-skill U.S. workers.

• The combination of domestic reforms and NAFTA-related growth in Mexico will keep more Mexicans at home.
• It is likely that a reduction in immigration will increase the real wages of low-skilled urban and rural workers in the United States."

"It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution to the fabric of American life. But...under the pressures we face today, we can't afford to lose control of our borders, or to take on new financial burdens, at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care, and the education of our own people. Therefore, immigration must be a priority for this administration."(Christian Science Monitor, June 21, 1993)

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Coleman, David A. (Prof., St. John's College, Oxford, Dept. of Social Policy & Social Work)

"Too easy an access to immigrant labour can create distortion and dependency in an economy. Any large modern society which finds that it in some way 'needs' constant flows of immigrants, ...over a long time, is suffering from problems with its society or labour market or economy which it ought to rectify by reforming itself, not depending on the rest of the world."

"The suggestion that some unattractive jobs must in future be done by foreigners implies a permanent ethnically distinct underclass. That notion should be contrary to the principles of any society which favours equality of opportunity and opposes ethnic or racial discrimination."

"Migration distorts economies and creates dependence on futher migration. It allows obsolete low-wage, low-productivity enterprises to continue in poor conditions, which otherwise would have to raise the wages of their workers, introduce more capital intensive processes or export the function to the countries where it could be performed more cheaply for everyone's benefit."

"'Open borders' is urged as a parallel to 'free trade', as though people were goods. But goods do not go where they are unwanted, goods have no rights or feelings, goods do not reproduce or vote, goods can be sent back or scrapped when no longer needed. Immigration concerns people, not objects, and consequently (depending on its scale) its political and social importance is potentially much greater than any economic effects it may have. The inability of economic models to accommodate political, social and cultural effects underlines the fact that immigration policy is far too important a matter to be left to economists."(Why Borders Cannot Be Open Int. Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 8/24/01)

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"American institutions rest solely on good citizenship. They were created by people who had a background of self-government. New arrivals should be limited to our capacity to absorb them into the ranks of good citizenship. America must be kept American. For this purpose, it is necessary to continue a policy of restricted immigration. It would lie well to make such immigration of a selective nature with some inspection at the source, and based either on a prior census or upon the record of naturalization. Either method would insure the admission of those with the largest capacity and best intention of becoming citizens. I am convinced that our present economic and social conditions warrant a limitation of those to be admitted. We should find additional safety in a law requiring the immediate registration of all aliens. Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America." (First Message to Congress, December 1923)

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Cornelius, Wayne A., (Pol. Sci. Prof. & Dir. Studies & Programs, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies UC-SD)

"IRCA had the unintended consequence of stimulating permanent emigration to the U.S. once a family head had legalized himself under the SAW program, or under the general amnesty program that was also created by the 1986 law, wives and children soon followed him to the U.S., whether or not these dependents could actually qualify to enter legally."("Potential Impacts of the New Economic Crisis on Migration to the United States" Revista NEXOS, Mexico City, supplied by the author, Apr. 1995)

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Council of Economic Advisers,

"Several factors have contributed to widening [income] inequality. One major factor is increasing returns to education and experience...In addition to rapidly increasing demand for educated labor, two institutional factors seem to have contributed to rising wage inequality: the decline of unions and the erosion of the minimum wage by inflation.... Immigration has increased the relative supply of less educated labor and appears to have contributed to the increasing inequality of income, but the effect has been small. A study of the effects of immigration between 1980 and 1988 found that it explains less than 1 percent of the change in the college-high school wage differential. Although immigration flows were considerably larger in the late 1980s than the early 1980s, this study makes it seem unlikely that immigration could explain more than a few percent of the total change in this differential." (pp. 117-121)(1993 Annual Report to the President, Feb. 4, 1994 ISBN 0-16-043028-3, GPO, Washington, DC

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Cuomo, Gov. Mario (NY),

"All the asylum laws are a joke. We all know that. Its not just the sheik, that just made it dramatic. You come in, you say asylum, they say "OK". It'll take us a year to figure out whether or not you're telling us the truth. Meanwhile, go down to South Jamaica and get yourself a job. They disappear. It is a joke. That has to be changed."("Good Morning America" June 25, 1993)

"I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised."(New York Times, June 10, 1994, p.A1)

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Dewey, Arthur E (Assistant Secretary of Population, Refugees, and Migration)

“The rest of the world combined takes less than half as many refugees as the U.S. does; this year, some 20-25,000 vice 53,000 for the United States.”

Statement before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship Washington, DC September 21, 2004