Quotes About Migration

I recognize and appreciate the legitimate concerns of residents and officials in southwestern New Mexico, particularly Hidalgo County, who have asked for our assistance, as migrants and asylum-seekers continue to appear at their doorstep.

We are already overcrowded. There's no more room, and we must shut the borders.

I want to send a very strong signal to people who do think about making this journey - we will do everything we can to make sure it is not a success in the sense that I don't want people to think that if they leave a safe country like France that they can get to Britain and just get to stay.

I fear that the migratory crisis signals the beginning of the end of women's rights.

Most of the people I've met who are black in other countries look up to the blacks in this country. Though they may talk differently, they are anxious to partake of this country simply because things in their country are not physically on par with what they are here.

All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree.

It was the time of year when migrating crows wheeled across the sky, thunderous flocks that moved like a single veil, and I heard them, out there in the wild chirruping air. Turing to the window, I watched the birds fill the sky before disappearing, and when the air was still again, I watched the empty place where they had been.

Migrants are the creators of some of the biggest and most liquid capital flows anywhere. They send back some $600 billion in remittances every year,6 which amounts to three times more than the direct gains from abolishing all trade barriers, four times more than all foreign aid, and 100 times the amount of all debt relief.

The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn't money; it's a story. Of the arduous journey here, the snow on the streets, the rude immigration agent or the kindly social worker; the lights of the Eiffel Tower or the cold reception from the cousins with whom he's staying.

more than 60 percent of the global population lives within thirty miles of a coastline.

Some historians, in fact, suggest Hartford recruiters may have pioneered strategies that spurred the great migration of Southern rural blacks to Northern cities.

El trabajo de comenzar una vida nueva en otro país no es más sencillo cuando se trata del propio; concentrado como estaba en los enigmas de mi llegada, en interpretar las mil y una formas en que la mentalidad y el temperamento de mi ciudad se habían transformado en los años de mi ausencia, no

Abandonar un país era un juego de niños. Un trueque de colores y no de vida. El desarraigo no tenía color, en cambio. A uno le daba igual vivir en cualquier parte y nacer aquí o allá era un accidente. Uno era un camaleón, los países y la gente meros decorados. Tal

California is full of homesick people.

Deutschland" war der Name eines Systems, in dem es nur darum ging, was wem gehörte und wer woran die Schuld trug. Jola war Deutschland. Sie kam von dort und würde dorthin zurückkehren. Theo und sie hatten ein Stück Kriegsgebiet mit auf die Insel gebracht.

My goal, one-hundred percent, is to get individuals and companies to move to Florida.

History will tell you that borders are not inevitable, they hardly existed at the end of the 19th century.

Students from other E.U. countries are worth billions to our economy and help drive it through their hard work and innovation.

If migrants from other cultures arrive too fast and in numbers too great for society to absorb and integrate them, they begin to impose those cultures on the host country.

In the Depression, when most of them came here, people with brains went to New York and people with faces came West.

The biggest Russian problem - not all Russian jerks have moved to the US and UK yet.

The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

On the way we encountered many other people: families on the move, women wearily limping along behind their men, carrying bundles on their heads and babies strapped on their backs, their children tottering alongside, dragging behind them bags and baskets overflowing with artefacts of their dislocated lives. [256]

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