Quotes About Immigration

I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel.

If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

When I was elected to Congress, this was the No. 1 issue businesses brought up. They said that if we want this country to succeed, we need immigration reform.

Assimilation, not success, is the American end game.

Operation Sovereign Borders has been one of Australia's greatest national security policy successes.

My dad is actually from Ghana in West Africa, and I was actually born in Ghana, too, and came to the United States when I was two years old. It's always football over there, soccer, but becoming a Massachusetts native, you can't help but get sucked into all the sports.

Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.

Illinois is home to a disproportionate share of Dreamers and would suffer a significant economic blow should they be compelled to leave.

They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.

Communities are suffering, children are suffering, and our immigration policy appears in disarray.

Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

What many of us object to is the politicians who, for whatever reason, forget that societies cannot easily absorb huge numbers of new citizens. I resent the suggestion that this perfectly reasonable view is motivated by racial hatred or personal spite.

If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced.

My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations.

I was from somewhere else. Then all of a sudden I was here, in New York. With one suitcase.

I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.

Mexicans work so hard. Jamaicans are like, 'Hey mon. Take it easy. You work too 'ard.' Sneak into the country Sunday night, working Monday morning.

culpar a otros —los inmigrantes y los malos acuerdos comerciales— de nuestros apuros, y especialmente los de quienes sufren a causa de la desindustrialización, la culpa la tenemos nosotros: podríamos haber gestionado mejor la globalización y el proceso de cambio tecnológico, de manera que al perder su empleo la mayoría de los individuos obtuviera uno nuevo en otro frente.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

Ha egyszer kiszabadul a soviniszta dzsinn a palackból, az nem csak a Nyugat ellen irányulhat. Otthon is találhat célpontokat, mint a nemzeti kisebbségek és a vendégmunkások milliói a mai Oroszországban. Ahogy egy közép-ázsiai nagykövet kérdezte Moszkvában orosz barátjától: - Mit m?veltek ti a nektek dolgozó embereinkkel? Harcos iszlamistaként térnek haza...

Here in Britain, of course, it's Thank Fuck We Got Those Weird Jesus Bastards On The Boat Day