Quotes About Immigration

Lots of migrants live in our country, and they make a significant contribution to our economy.

I actually believe that one of the lessons of 1993 and 1994, as well as 2009 and 2010, is that when a Democratic president has the opportunity - with a Democratic Congress - that you shouldn't wait to push significant legislation, whether it's health care, immigration reform, other measures.

Well, I do want to talk about the challenges at the border. New Mexico, if you will, has become an Ellis Island and we want to take that issue seriously and we're not going to shy away that it presents significant challenges.

Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

I completely understand why people are concerned about immigration. There's no silver bullet, no one thing you can do to suddenly deal with all the problems and concerns with immigration, and that includes leaving the E.U.

As with the Pacific Gateway, Canadians were similarly hoodwinked by the Immigrant Investor Program (IIP).

The best advice I have is, actually present yourself at a legal border crossing and make your case. Cross illegally and get arrested, and your children will be given to us. That's the simple fact, I'm afraid.

I see nothing easy in Washington. I see either analytically simple things that are politically complex or those that are politically complex and analytically complex. I mean, look at immigration reform, you know? It is, I think, analytically easy, but politically very, very complex and very difficult.

The simple truth is that unless you can control immigration you cannot govern because you cannot set a budget or plan public services.

The immigration divide is also an urban–rural divide.4 In country after country, rural voters elect xenophobes. The majority of people who voted for Brexit lived in the British countryside; multicultural London was the Tower of Babel for them. The areas that have the fewest immigrants are the ones most afraid of them.

In 2016, 83 percent of the winners in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair were children of immigrants.

Countries like Canada realize this, and have seen the burgeoning American resistance to immigration as something to be exploited. "If you guys cannot figure out your immigration system, we're going to invite the best and brightest to come north of the border," said Jason Kenney, Canada's immigration minister for Stephen Harper's Conservative government, before a 2013 trip to the San Francisco Bay Area.

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.

He chuckles at his own joke. No one wants the Jews. Not even America. Americans have no right to criticize us. They rounded up their Indians, you know. Put them on reservations.

the aristocrats came over a decade later on the Arbella. The trash came on the Mayflower.

During the twentieth century, America recorded its highest percentage of foreign-born residents in 1910: 14.7 percent of the population. A century later, about 40 million people or nearly 13 percent of Americans today are foreign-born citizens.

In Phoenix, they were called illegal aliens and pegged as criminals. They were alternately viewed as American, Mexican, or neither. Now, for a moment, they were simply teenagers at a robotics competition by the ocean.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican, and I don't even consider myself an American. If you and I were Americans, there'd be no problem. Those Hunkies that just got off the boat, they're already Americans; Polacks are already Americans; the Italian refugees are already Americans. Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet.

no es aquel que pasa su vida intentando probar que el suyo es un país mejor; es el que trata de hacer grande al país que lo recibe, porque ésta es la mejor forma de honrar al que lo vio nacer».

Or should one recognize that one becomes a foreigner in another country because one is already a foreigner from within?

If you go to America or London, you will see Indians shining.

For many Indians, their future as global players is linked to the American dream.

Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.

Individual children are separated from their parents only when those parents cross the border illegally and are arrested. We can't have children with parents who are in incarceration.