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Migrants don't come to the United States because, as Ambassador Aponte argued in her press conference, of 'lies' told by smugglers that, once here, you can't get deported. They come because their countries have been destroyed by U.S. policy.

— Greg Grandin

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.

— Viktor Orban

Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.

— Mario Diaz-Balart

People are frustrated. This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States, and people feel like we're being taken advantage of. We feel like despite our generosity, we're being taken advantage of.

— Marco Rubio

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

— Samuel P. Huntington

America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'

— Ivan Krastev

Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home.

— Kit Bond

Countries around the world have their own immigration laws and methods of dealing with a recurring theme: desperate people searching for peace from volatile parts of the world. And nations everywhere thrive and prosper from the contributions of immigrants and the children of immigrants - including right here in the U.S.

— Al Sharpton

All the terrorists are basically migrants.

— Viktor Orban

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.

— Jeb Bradley

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

— Marco Rubio