23 Quotes by Jan C. Ting

Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.

Both my parents were immigrants, as were many of their friends, the parents of the children with whom I grew up. Of course I respect and admire immigrants and their undeniable contributions to America, as we all should.

Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

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 supports protection of national security.

Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.

All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants.

The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards for legal permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship than all the rest of the nations of the world combined.

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.