Quotes About Home countries

I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.

Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.

Our asylum laws were written to protect victims fleeing persecution in their home countries. By limiting the scope of these laws and refusing to acknowledge gang violence or domestic violence as a valid reason to seek asylum, we are turning away women and children in grave danger.

It's happening: Lou Dobbs' dream come true and Silicon Valley's worst nightmare. We're already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their U.S. educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries.

The vast majority of immigrants - regardless of the conditions of war and poverty that may wrack their home countries - come and contribute to their new home country: building our roads, caring for our homes, children, and elders, and serving as doctors, lawyers, employers, and innovators.

most immigrants are people who have either few skills or very high-level skills and, as a result, do not have good employment prospects in their home countries. By contrast, their compatriots with intermediate levels of skills—such as handymen or mechanics—have plenty of job opportunities available in their communities of origin, and thus tend not to migrate