Quotes About Immigration

We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.

Since there was no picture of the old country in our house and since I didn't have one etched in my mind, the old country came to mean my grandmother. Whatever it was, she was. Whatever she was, it was.

The offspring of immigrant factory workers had a chance to go to college and become doctors, lawyers, executives, and even owners of the very companies where their parents and grandparents worked long hours for low pay.

Something like this could increase our membership tenfold. Nice, pure Aryan lad, with his whole future ahead of him, murdered by Paki immigrant scum. That'll turn a few fence-sitters in our direction.

Simply that when immigrants come to a new land, they often turn to religion for a sense of ethnic solidarity and community. Sociologists have long recognized this phenomenon: immigration is consistently correlated with increased religiosity.

My own parents and grandparents came to the United States as refugees from Nazism. They came with stories similar to Odette's ...

with the Minister for Immigration, Harold Holt, and the head of his department, Heyes, who said the department would 'be very willing to co-operate', but the defectors needed to have 'satisfactory' health, be of 'reasonable age', be prepared to take whatever work was offered and should come to Australia as full fare-paying passengers in British ships.60 Subsequently, on 15 May

From the moment Julia Gillard became prime minister, Abbott's mantra has been: "If you want to stop the boats, you have to change the government." But for that to keep working in his favour, it's best the boats keep coming.

I explained that he was Chinese, and she asked if the movie would be in Chinese. No, I said, he lives in America. In California. He's been there since he was a baby. Then what does it matter if he's Chinese? Well, I said, he's got... you know, a sensibility.

These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... but you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained.

Involved is neither good nor bad. It is just a consequence of living, a consequence of occupation and immigration, of empires and expansion, of living in each other's pockets... one becomes involved and it is a long trek back to becoming uninvolved.

My parents are two academics that came to Canada to pursue academic opportunities.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

You never know for sure whether a player will adapt to a new country until he gets there.

Life in England was a bit difficult. It is not easy for a South American. Some people get on fine, and for others, it is harder to adapt.

I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.

I don't really feel an allegiance to any of the countries I have lived in, even though I feel like part of them, and part of them is in me.

Everybody comes here because of the American Dream.

I came here because I wanted to live the American dream that I had heard of. And I'm a perfect example. I came to New York; I knew no one. I've made a career, a life, so I still believe in that.

My dad told me that he came to the U.S. because of watching Hollywood movies. So the American Dream for him was based on what you see in films.

My family, I can say, is pretty Americanized. My son has lived pretty much all his life in Chicago, my daughter was born in Chicago, we all like Chicago.

The anchor baby situation has got to stop.