Quotes About Immigrants

When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.

A lot of people forget that Americans are immigrants. People are forgetting that, to where people have this attitude, 'We're Americans, go back to your country. Go back. This is a free country.' I always heard that growing up. I always heard that.

We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

Brazil's got everything to be a great country for Brazilians and for immigrants.

Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.

I'm Cuban. My parents are immigrants.

I think our immigrants are a strength for us in San Diego. I think it's a strength in our communities in California. Our immigrant community in San Diego has been part of the fabric of our city for decades, and it's one that I'm proud of.

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.

American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated.

We should favor young immigrants with many years of work ahead of them. We should favor immigrants who have demonstrated an ability to learn and work using English, which makes their future success more likely.

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and one in five was black - some were free, some slaves.

If you're saying you should not be allowed in the country, you should be consistent and say that to all immigrants.

We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?

And we'll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy!

A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.

Immigrants have historically been an entrepreneurial bunch.

My parents were immigrants and janitors.

A lot of these liberal churches that harbor illegal immigrants who are criminals say they are following the example of Jesus. They are following the Jesus of their imagination rather than the Jesus of the Bible.

America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.