Quotes About Immigration

My dad is an ob-gyn - he's retired now - and he wanted to come to the States to make a better life, for opportunity. My mom said that, on the plane ride here, I did not want to speak a word of English - I spoke Tagalog. And then, after the first day of school, I didn't want to speak anything but English.

I started acting when I was really young. I came to the States and didn't know anyone, and I spoke with a weird Irish accent.

I spoke English when I moved to the U.S.A. but I had an accent. To get rid of it, I watched a lot of TV-shows and tried to repeat after the tv-hosts. I liked shows about hip-hop.

I don't really consider myself an immigrant, because I was born French; I have always spoken the language. I never had the feeling of being a foreigner. I was very lucky: I came to France, and I had enough money to study and to rent a studio. So, for me, it was not difficult.

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.

Don't have their own police force—no immigration control—undesirables can walk right in without being frisked or even harassed. Now a Burbclave, that's the place to live. A city-state with its own constitution, a border, laws, cops, everything.

Then he nodded at a work party of Hispanic men busy heaving shattered drywall and rolls of nasty old carpet into huge rolling bins for disposal. "And those guys are from the sidewalk in front of Home Depot. If my higher-ups knew . . ." He shook his head.

Nacida en Nueva York de padres huidos de la represión política en Chile.

the war should be understood as a kind of backlash against globalization, heralded by rising tariffs and immigration restrictions in the decade before 1914, and welcomed most ardently by Europe's agrarian elites, whose position had been undermined for decades by the decline in agricultural prices and emigration of surplus rural labour to the New World.14

People born in other countries accounted for 14.6 per cent of the population in 1910 compared with 12.9 per cent at the 2010 census.

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

My parents moved to San Francisco from India when I was a year old.

Both my parents moved here from Argentina before I was born, so they were in a foreign country.

A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

Extreme multiculturalism... is not the way to build this country.

At every turn, Molly Antopol's gorgeous debut story collection, 'The UnAmericans,' is firing on multiple cylinders.

My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960.

It was 1989, and the word 'Muslim' wasn't even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian.