Quotes About Immigration

My parents were engineers. In the 1970s, they came to the United States as refugees from Uganda. Seeing everything this country did for my family inspired me to want to give back through public service.

My wife's half-Indian, her father's from Uganda and she was born in Canada. Her sister speaks French and their family speaks a little Gujarati, and I'm talking about Gujarati from 1940! And just think - Rajpal Yadav in the middle of all this. What a contrast!

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.

My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.

Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.

So we still need a permanent fix. The president would sign the Dream Act tomorrow, the next day, the day after that. That's ultimately the only way to fix this, is for congressional action.

So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.

The day after Brexit I had a moment when someone said, 'Don't you want to go back to your own country?' I wasn't 100 per cent sure if he was thinking he was being kind? I was like, 'Um... this is my home, thank you.'

I don't think we should ever ban anyone based on their religion. That is un-American. It is not good. What the president is doing, everybody needs to realize that what he's doing is saying, 'Let's take a step back. Let's temporarily pause.'

The old racism of imperialism not only rendered the postwar political elite unable to see black people as full British citizens, it provided them with a whole glossary of stereotypes and preconceptions that they then deployed in order to justify their aim of introducing immigration controls.

Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.

When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.

That migrant families might be menaced or threatened in any way, shape or form when they arrive at our border - often times after an unimaginably arduous journey - is completely unacceptable.

Entering the country illegally is bad enough, but to then commit crimes against innocent Americans is completely unacceptable.

I ask unanimous consent that I be able to deliver a floor speech on immigration reform in Spanish.

Our national prosperity is built on our open borders. However, the reality is that if a points system is introduced in the UK it would be unavoidable for us in the Netherlands to implement similar proposals - and inevitable that many other EU countries would follow suit.

The immigration process is so unbelievably complicated and expensive and endless!

Too many of our immigrant communities have been forced to live in fear, uncertain about their futures.

Our broken immigration system has left too many people uncertain of whether they could be torn away from their homes, forced to leave their families, their communities, and their dreams behind.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Europe drills the Moslem to be a soldier who will ultimately turn his weapons against her;