Angela Kelley People Quotations

It reflects an understandable frustration, at the local level, that we've got a broken immigration system, I don't think it is going to contribute one iota to stopping people from coming to this country.

We've got 500,000 people coming to the U.S. illegally and they are coming to work. They aren't coming to get their nails done. They are coming to do people's nails.

There has to be a more satisfactory answer than let's do more of the same. It's a bit of folly to say people don't put down roots and aren't needed in these jobs.

Pew seems to be giving us the data that people come when there are jobs, when the economy is strong, ... It (the report) gives breathing room for policymakers struggling to come up with a solution.

It takes people who've been here since before January '04 and it gives them a conditional status that leads to nowhere. That seems like it's going to be a big slap in the face to the community that's been reeling from the wall that was built last year.

People are going to review this not in terms of whose name is on the bill but whether it works.