Barack Obama

It's important for our future.

We're a nation of immigrants.

These people –- our neighbors, our classmates, our friends –- they did not come here in search of a free ride or an easy life.

Are we a nation that tolerates the hypocrisy of a system where workers who pick our fruit and make our beds never have a chance to get right with the law?

We need reasoned, thoughtful, compassionate debate that focuses on our hopes, not our fears.

Mass amnesty would be unfair. Mass deportation would be both impossible and contrary to our character.

We expect people who live in this country to play by the rules. We expect that those who cut the line will not be unfairly rewarded.

But today, our immigration system is broken -- and everybody knows it.

For more than 200 years, our tradition of welcoming immigrants from around the world has given us a tremendous advantage over other nations.

We're going to keep on working with members of Congress to make permanent reform a reality, but until that day comes there are actions that I have the legal authority to take that will help make our immigration system more fair and more…

The measure will let up to 5 million undocumented immigrants stay in the country temporarily.

I think first and foremost keep protests peaceful. This is a country that allows everybody to express their views, allows them to peacefully assemble, to protest actions that they think are unjust but using any event as an excuse for…

I think the American people want Washington focused on jobs and the economy.

Most undocumented immigrants are good, decent people.

The United States remains firmly committed to supporting Ukraine as it works to establish security, restore economic stability, strengthen the rule of law, advance the fight against corruption, and carry out democratic and constitutional…

Family is the bedrock of our lives, and my Administration is fighting to ensure Americans are able to seize their every opportunity and fulfill their responsibilities to their loved ones.

The United States stands with the Ukrainian people and their choice of democracy, reform, and European integration.

January 20, 2017, someone else can completely change these rules.

We are going to establish priorities. These are the people who are going to be deported first.

To those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better or question the wisdom of me acting when Congress has failed, I have one answer. Pass a bill.

The actions I'm taking are not only lawful, they're the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic president for the past half century.

These people, our neighbors, our classmates, our friends. They did not come here in search of a free ride or an easy life.

We need more than politics as usual when it comes to immigration.

I know some worry immigration will change the very fabric of who we are or take our jobs or stick it to middle class families at a time they already feel they've gotten a raw deal for over a decade.

Americans are tired of gridlock. What our country needs right now is a common purpose, a higher purpose.