What Liberals Say » Immigration

No woman is illegal…

Hillary Clinton — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:05:44 +0000

“No woman is illegal [...] and no man either.”

“Outrageous” phrase offends

Howard Dean — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:47:08 +0000

“Stop scapegoating immigrants…[Stop using] outrageous phrases like ‘illegal aliens.’”

California is to be a Hispanic state

Mario Obledo — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:13:45 +0000

â€œWe’re going to take over all the political institutions of California. California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn’t like it should leave. If they [whites] don’t like Mexicans, they ought to go back to Europe.â€

1965 Immigration Bill = no immigrant flood

Ted Kennedy — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:58:39 +0000

â€œ[O]ur cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. . . [N]o immigrant visa will be issued to a person who is likely to become a public charge. . . [Mass immigration] will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.â€

Amnesty doesn’t mean an immigrant flood

Ted Kennedy — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:26:30 +0000

â€œ[O]ur cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same. . . . Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset. . . . Contrary to the charges in some quarters, S. 500 will not inundate America with immigrants from any other country or area, or the most populated and economically deprived nations of Africa and Asia. . . .â€

A Road Show about Illegal Immigration

Byron Pitts — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:20:39 +0000

“Try explaining immigration reform to two toddlers living in a shotgun house, or to their parents who work 12 hours a day picking blueberries for minimum wage. Don’t worry, it’s likely you’ll never have to. And today…members of Congress didn’t try. What they were doing was, at best, political theater- a road show on both coasts.”

If Muslims don’t assimilate, we should become more like them.

Robert Putnam — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:03:07 +0000

“What we shouldn’t do is to say that they [Muslims immigrating to England but not assimilating into the British society] should be more like us. We should construct a new us.”

Illegal aliens don’t exist.

Jose Angel Gutierrez — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:08:20 +0000

“We see no human being as ‘illegal.’ Those who have arrived to the U.S. with heritage indigenous to the Americas, and specifically those crossing the southern border, are migrants on their own continent.”

Illegal aliens should vote.

Laughlin McDonald — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:36:28 +0000

“These people have some claim to fair representation, whether they’re citizens or not. “You’ve got to represent people whether they’re voters or not.”