Top 154 Migrants Quotes & Sayings

Democrats encouraged a porous southern border because they saw migrants and their American-born children as a source of future political support.

I'm against illegal migrants. Too many of them are dangerous for Italy and Europe.

The influx of migrants must be stopped.

All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.

With Indian migrants all over the world, money transfer is a big business in India.

Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature. It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.

People are talking about immigration like it is a disease. In fact migrants pay more in than they get out.

All the terrorists are basically migrants.

Our economy is failing far too many - forcing parents to use foodbanks to feed their children, demonising migrants and condemning all of us to climate breakdown.

How can I justify the Cuban Adjustment Act when there are people coming from Cuba saying that they come - that they have - that they should be treated differently from other migrants? But they're going back to that country.

It makes no sense economically that public money goes to help foreign workers and migrants in a region where unemployment is higher than national average.

Migration is an opportunity, not a problem. And in the sense that it is an opportunity, it goes on to a bilateral agreement, between Mexico and the US, the US and the Dominican Republic, whatever you wish, and it has to be a multilateral, international event. I am in favor of an international union of migrant workers that really takes on the problems that affect Europe, with the migrants coming from Africa, and the US with the migrants coming from Latin America. It has to be considered an international question, with international solutions, and with no problems national or international.

Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.

Some politicians fear the burden that migrants will impose on local communities and taxpayers. Others fear extremists masquerading as genuine refugees.

Enough of Sicily being the refugee camp of Europe. I will not stand by and do nothing while there are landings after landings of migrants.

Soros wants to fill Italy and Europe with migrants.

Lots of migrants live in our country, and they make a significant contribution to our economy.

When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be.

According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity

Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.

Democrats like Congressman Elijah Cummings say they care about how migrants are treated at the border. What about the families and people in their own district?

How many migrants, how many immigrants, how many migrants and refugees fleeing war-torn areas in the Middle East are permitted into the Vatican? I'm not kidding. I think I saw a story where they're going to take ... two. It's obviously symbolic. They will take two at the Vatican, thereby setting an example and showing how it's done.

All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging.

[Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European migrant crisis. And a month later, he accepted a prestigious European Union prize, but he scolded Europe for its treatment of migrants. And in a speech echoing Martin Luther King, he said I have a dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime. So, yeah, he showed he can be quite outspoken on political issues.

While much attention was focused on Germany during the 2015 refugee crisis, in which more than a million migrants from the Middle East and Africa entered the continent at the behest of Angela Merkel, the country that admitted the most migrants per capita was Sweden.

Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.

Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.

I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.

There are critical issues facing us, including handling transportation of lakhs of migrants, completing harvest and procurement on time, supporting poor and needy, and above all, combating the spread of the pandemic.

The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.

There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.

I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.

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

The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

Because of a massive backlog of asylum cases and an inability to quickly adjudicate and enforce them, more migrants are making the journey to our border.

When labor migration is properly managed, it is a conduit for skills and wages to flow where they are most needed. It can, and must, be a triple-win, benefiting migrants and their families, their home country, and their destination.

Skills development as a means to income generation is the key to integrate vulnerable migrants into the mainstream of society and to equip them for an eventual return home.

Illegal migrants, who have entered our country crossing the border, have to go back. But citizens of our nation living in Assam need not worry.

In future, migrants desiring to enter our State will need to be registered and their personal details and identification proof will have to be submitted to the police station.

Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers

I feel it is my duty to help the migrants, the heartbeats of our country. We have seen migrants walking on the highways with their families and kids. We just can't sit in the AC and tweet and show our concern till we don't go on the roads, till we don't become one of them.

In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States. The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.

We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact.

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

But a rejection of freedom of movement within Europe's own boundaries does not strengthen the case for accepting more migrants and refugees from outside: the reverse, in fact.

I wonder how many illegal migrants fanned out across the country while I and others were subjected to the stone-faced, suspicious inefficiency of the Border Force?

President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants.

We have a problem that we have to fix in El Salvador - We have been sending migrants to the United States and elsewhere since the '80s and now we have almost a quarter of our population living abroad.

The Biden Administration's Executive Actions have attracted an influx of migrants seeking to take advantage of irresponsible and poorly thought-out immigration policy.

It is up to us to push for a transformation in political culture in which the basic human dignity of migrants is unequivocally respected.

There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

Europeans are dying out. Don't you understand that? And same-sex marriages don't produce children. Do you want to survive by drawing migrants? But society cannot adapt so many migrants.

The jobs Americans don't want are the ones the migrants fill.

I found it really astonishing that undocumented migrants were kidnapped so routinely, that it was such a commonplace part of the journey for people trying to reach the US, and that we hear almost nothing about it here.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

Look at me - I'm the daughter of migrants and I certainly felt on the ground very early on in my premiership that people did warm to me.