Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.
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.
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illeg...
If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.
If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt.
Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.
We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.
As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.
Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.
The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.
It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
People have to stop employing illegal immigrants.
As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.
Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and illegal immigration in particular, limits growth in the haystack, and support...
There is no quick fix for illegal immigration. But only when we achieve better control of our borders and better respect for our immigration laws can we give meaning to the discussion we need to have over reforming the numbers, categories, and proced...
My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned.
The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
Governor Romney is a real hardliner on illegal immigration.
