Quotes About Immigration

My parents are small business owners, and the Korean community, like a lot of immigrant communities, is very much owner-driven.

We need immigration reform, but we need open-air, smaller bills that are germane to an issue and have an open discussion with the American people.

I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.

When I first came to America, you know, I would look at the newsstands and see the women on the magazine covers. I had never seen anyone smile the way these girls smile! It's like they have nothing to worry about!

When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.

This bill, this badly named ENLIST Act, would put out the advertisement that says, 'Sneak into America. Sneak into the military, and that's going to be the most expeditious path to American citizenship and the whole smorgasbord of benefits that come from American citizenship.'

I saw so many opportunities in the U.S. because I knew that I could make a living doing things I could never do in Romania.

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.

If America oppresses, why do so many people risk their lives coming here to be oppressed?

The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers put out a statement with these almost unprecedented words: "Certainly we are not gullible enough to believe that thousands of unaccompanied minor Central American children came to America without the encouragement, aid and assistance of the United States government.

The vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 said, "Until we start mandatory detentions, mandatory removals, I don't think anything is going to change. As a matter of fact, I think it's going to get worse."11

Arizona governor Jan Brewer summed up what must be done: The administration's refusal to properly verify that violent criminals are not among those entering the United States shows an alarming lack of concern for our homeland's security. As a nation, we cannot sit back and allow this policy to continue.16

Do you realize that the current administration seems to care more about the health of illegal aliens in this country than it does about our veterans?

If men were equal in America, all these former Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as a foreigner; there were only free men and slaves. And so it was not even patriotism but a new faith. The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.

It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.

it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promised a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. Then it really is an impossible thing.

I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

Immigration has been [Donald] Trump's signature issue throughout his entire presidential campaign, and his supporters love him for it.

The DACA situation is a very, very difficult thing for me because, I love these kids.

An ideological certification to make sure that those we are admitting to our country share our values and love our people.

He kept imagining women like his mother creeping across the border with the hope of being able to make enough to feed themselves and their families, and being murdered by some vigilante who felt he had the right to take the law into his own hands. It was so easy to feel self-righteous and superior when you had a comfortable home, a safe place to live and a full stomach.

Relatives watching wanted and expected me to break down and cry, thereby devaluing my inner sorrow. Maybe if I had not stayed in cold England for eighteen years - England, a country where people cry in their hearts and not with their eyes - I would have done so. Eighteen years is a long time, and like the people I live with, I cried in my heart.

The Pastor had spent his boyhood in the old country and was not at all sure that hot water, stall showers and the like were necessary to salvation. In fact it was one of his notions that Americans were too clean. "Rub all the natural protective oils off their skins, they do for a fact.

Los Angeles has always been a boom town, chronically unable to . . . integrate its new population.