Ira Mehlman Quotations

We think this could be a major, precedent-setting case.

You have to create conditions that encourage people to deport themselves. We didn't get to 12 million people overnight. We're not going to get back down overnight.

Just as you can be for health care reform without having any animosity toward nurses, you can be in favor of immigration reform without bearing any animosity toward immigrants.

But churches have been actively involved in aiding people who are breaking the law. Churches should not expect to be exempt when they're disobeying the law.

The reason we set limits in the first place is because it has an impact on everyone else. Changing it will change the illegality, but it doesn't change the impact. Immigration affects labor markets and social institutions.

The whole thing is a sham. At the end of nine years all these people are going to thank us and go home?

If the Senate does go ahead and pass something that looks like amnesty, they will never get this passed in the House.

Obviously, these are well-orchestrated, well-organized rallies that are taking place, and they represent the views of the people who are out there, primarily people who have broken the law and want to be rewarded for it.

Each time immigrants have these giant rallies, the more they infuriate the rest of the American population with the idea that those who break the law get to march and somehow be rewarded. We have seen in France what happens when you try to bring in millions of people ... in many cases who are hostile. We saw there that it didn't work, and it won't work here.

Why admit people with TPS if you know they're never going to leave.