Quotes About Immigration

I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.

Trump's pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hungary, although he is far from alone in taking such positions in much of today's Republican Party.

Ed Miliband's anti-immigration stance is odd: it's hard to vote for a man who doesn't have the confidence to defend his own existence.

We must continue to stand up for what's right and push for bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform.

Immigration is about more than just who comes here and who is allowed to stay. It is about who we are as a country and what we are willing to stand up for.

The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy.

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language.

I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

Everybody knows that from a national security standpoint we need to secure our southern border.

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.

The ability to control our borders stands at the heart of the debate on whether or not Britain should leave the European Union.

If Republicans want to change their stance on immigration, they should do so on the merits, not out of a belief that only immigration policy stands between them and a Republican Hispanic majority.

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

We headed back to the zoo, and back to the tangle of my immigration red tape. I had a renewed sense of confidence. I felt if I could face fierce snakes, I could face anything, even the Australian consulate.

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

For the first time in twenty-five years there was no Person of Color on the Board of Estimate, whatever traditional roles they'd had in City government erased. Squeezed by growing immigration, the breakdown of old political networks, a changing economy and soon, waves of drugs, crime, and disease, New York's African Americans would be forced over the next thirty-five years into new cultural and social strategies that would in turn change the world.

As early as June of 1981, Brighton Beach was known as Little Odessa, with a quarter of its businesses owned by Soviet Jews.

If you think data about illegal alien crime is hidden from public, just try to find information on the contagious diseases brought across our borders by illegal aliens from nearly 100 countries.

Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.

With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

I think this is the story of this country, that you get to come here and build a better future for yourself and for your neighbours than you could have anywhere else in the world.

To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country.