Michele Waslin Quotations

It's just offensive and it's contrary to basic American identity and values.

They all agree we need to be tough on borders. It will be difficult for even the most progressive senator to vote against that and look weak on border security.

It would say to those 11 million undocumented immigrants that you have to come forward and register, pay thousands of dollars of fines so that you can be deported to your home country with no guarantee of ever coming back again. We don't think that's feasible.

People are just now beginning to wake up and see what this act means. Every U.S. citizen is going to feel the impact very profoundly.

People are simply not going to sign up ... to be deported with no guarantee of coming back again.

It's an issue that we are very concerned about.

People have to come forward, they have to pay a big fine and application fees, they have to go through background checks, pay all of the back taxes that are owed if they were working off the books and prove they've been learning English. I don't think that when you have to do all that, you can consider that an amnesty.

We know that the construction sector is dependent on immigrant workers in some cases. These bills would be very important both to employers who want a legal, stable work force and to the immigrants who are working in construction already.

Americans aren't going to take the jobs at the current wage and work conditions being offered.

I liken it to police officers pulling over people and asking for their tax returns.