Quotes About Immigration

We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop.

In other countries, being from somewhere else is celebrated. But not in America.

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.

We need a wall or a sophisticated fence, as long as it secures our border.

It takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It's what's in our souls.

There is nothing compassionate about Biden's lax border policy, not for the poor souls who have been lured into the arms of criminal human-smugglers, and not for the American people, who already are suffering the consequences of what can only be described as a secret government-sponsored invasion.

The need for physical border security is a very real one. But equally important is the need to focus on the source of the problem: mass emigration from Central America.

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

More than 1 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and my country remains the largest source of immigrants to the United States.

Although my family is originally from Jamaica, I grew up in a diverse community in south London. As my parents were immigrants they made every effort to integrate and we used to go to a wonderful church where we befriended families from all over the world.

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

We say South Africa is an open country, and when people come here, we must deal with them with dignity and respect within the parameters of our Constitution.

South Africa is now my country.

I'm Egyptian, and my parents stupidly decided to move us down to South Carolina when I was five, which was pretty brutal.

When I was almost two years old, my grandmother flew from Hongcheon, South Korea, to Flushing, Queens, to take care of me.

We do not have a secure border on our southern flank.

For years, elites in both political parties have ignored the illegal immigration crisis growing on America's southern border.

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

We need to secure our southern border. Clearly, the southern border is now a nexus between immigration and national security. It's a sieve.

In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.

I'm descended from southern slaves, and I'm descended on my mother's side from northern European Protestant immigrants.

It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.