Quotes About Immigration

My own grandparents came to the United States as immigrants in 1912, and they lived for some years in Italian ghettos in New York. Most immigrant groups start in ghettos somewhere, and many of them never get out.

As the grandson of Italian immigrants, maybe I am biased, but I think Christopher Columbus, the man who is rightfully credited with bringing European civilization to the Western Hemisphere, deserves the national holiday enacted by Congress in 1934.

If saying 'Italians first' is xenophobic, then I don't know what to say.

Unfortunately, you need to keep Italian Roma in Italy.

Maybe in Luxembourg there's a need for new immigration, but in Italy, there's a need to help people have children.

It was tough moving to Italy so young. You don't have much experience of life, you are leaving your family and everything behind to go to another country and another culture.

I have dual citizenship with Italy.

The immigration flows have to be controlled. We have to know who comes into Italy. The problem shouldn't be left to oversized, dysfunctional, nongovernmental groups.

I'm a first-generation American. My mother is from Argentina. My father is from Italy. When my dad was around five or six, his family migrated to Argentina. That's where he met my mom. They got married, and moved to Los Angeles - North Hollywood, to be exact.

I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that's not going to happen.

My parents immigrated to this country from Jamaica with no more than a fifth-grade education.

My mum came to Britain from Clarendon, in the south of Jamaica, to make a better life for her family.

I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.

I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

The State of Israel failed in absorbing the Jews from Ethiopia.

The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way we view immigration.

I was about nine or 10 when my dad moved to the U.S. to get another degree. Me and my mother moved to Atlanta to join him when I was 14.

America's strength in the past has been our ability to bring family members to join other family members in the United States and to look at skills but not have it be the only determination of how you get here.

For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.

The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn't from New York was coming from Russia.

I think everyone wants to know why I look like this. These jokes I make about looking Chinese... My mother's from Hungary and my dad was from Canada. There's a lot of immigration in my past.