Quotes About Immigration

We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands.

I don't want a wall being built around the Netherlands.

If you want to get into the United States, the best way, I believe, is to ride the network. There is no convergence between, say, the criminal networks and the Islamic extremist networks.

As we exit the E.U., there must be a new approach to immigration that has the consent of the British people and is managed in their interests.

I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

I'm half-Chinese and half-Caucasian. My grandparents came here from China. My father was born in New Jersey.

Some of the most important discoveries, innovations, and advances in our history have come from those seeking a new life in America.

There is my life in Cuba and my life in America, the old life and the new life, and almost nothing about them is the same.

The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.

If America vetted Muslim immigrants as toughly as the 'New York Times' vets Donald Trump, this would be a safe country.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

People sort of misinterpret the immigration story. I often hear people say that, well, you know, they emigrate to another country for a better life. That is not what the story of the immigrant is. They go to another country to provide opportunities for the next generation.

My parents were among the first families from their area to leave Nigeria and come to America, the land of the free.

I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and I like that I can spend time in America.

Everyone has met or seen or interacted with a Nigerian in America because we leave Nigeria for here. We're your doctors. We're your lawyers. We're your child's best friend. All of the above.

I knew I was Yoruba and Nigerian for the first 9 years of my life. I did not become conscious of my color and all that came with it until I moved to the United States with my family.

I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for black immigrants and African Americans. Being the daughter of Nigerian immigrants really drove me to do this type of work.

I used to have nightmares about the civil war when I got to England at ages 14 to 15. It took me some years to get over that.

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.

The immigration issue is a gateway issue for Hispanics, no doubt about it.

There's no doubt immigration can put pressure on public services, especially in places like Slough, but I'm not one of those people who think that immigration is always a bad thing.

My dad was the only son from his entire family to come to America, and I was his only son. We had come to the States to achieve security and success for our family. Rules were simple: No fun, no friends, no girls. Go to school, come home, and study.