Quotes About Immigrant

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.

Trump was neither Jewish nor Swedish; Fred Trump, a first-generation American born to German parents, had developed the habit of telling people the family was Swedish because they had so many Jewish tenants and, after World War II, he did not want to repel them. Donald perpetuated the fiction for many years.

The immigrant who comes as a wife has a more difficult time. If work exists for her, it is in the future and after much finding of feet. At present all she is, is a wife, and a wife is alone for many, many hours. There will come a day when even books are powerless to distract. When the house and its conveniences can no longer completely charm or compensate. Then she realizes she is an immigrant for life.

Perhaps that was the ultimate immigrant experience. Not that any one thing was steady enough to attach yourself to for the rest of your life, but that you found different ways to belong, ways not necessarily lasting, but ones that made your journey less lonely for a while. When something failed it was a signal to move on. For an immigrant there was no going back.

Following this formula, John Jacob Astor, who arrived in America the classic penniless immigrant in 1792, rose to become the "landlord of New York" and the richest man in America by the time he died in 1848.

As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.

Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.

I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

We soon got the idea that 'Italian' meant something inferior, and a barrier was erected between children of Italian origin and their parents. This was the accepted process of Americanization," Covello reflected in his memoir The Heart Is the Teacher. "We were becoming Americans by learning how to be ashamed of our parents.

Becoming American meant hearing slurs that now defined you and your people: dago, wop, guinea, spaghetti bender.

At the heart of being a second-generation American meant feeling the shame of your heritage and the sting of family betrayal, creating an inner turmoil from which one never fully escaped.

I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

Poor and immigrant communities feel most directly the spectacle and its terror. Other groups of U.S. residents, especially our threatened middle-class and white communities who (often wrongly) think they are safe from such official terror, are induced by the spectacle of paramilitary sweeps and SWAT operations to support and rationalize the powerful displays of state power.

The "most shocking of all contracts," write Selman and Leighton, was a Federal Bureau of Prisons award to CCA in the amount of $129 million "to house twelve hundred criminal-alien prisoners at its facility in Youngstown, Ohio."[38] The "criminal-alien," here, is actually the immigrant. Private

Hamilton was born on January 11, 1755 outside of the United States on an island called Nevis, which is a British island in the West Indies. His story, which begins on this island, is one of the great immigrant stories in American history.

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

A German immigrant named Emile Berliner started to carve songs into seven-inch wax disks, and to make as many copies as needed from a single master recording, while the two biggest companies in the business—Edison and Columbia—raced each other to improve fidelity and to drive prices down enough to make the phonograph a middle-class vanity toy.

Why there's suddenly this surge of hatred for immigrants is sort of a mystery. Why Donald Trump, who's probably never even interacted with an undocumented immigrant in a non-commercial capacity, in particular should care so much about this issue is even more obscure. (Did he trip over an immigrant on his way to the Cincinnati housing development his father gave him as a young man?) Most