Quotes About Immigration

President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.

When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.

The issue of infiltrators is as important as that of drinking water, education and health.

The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.

Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

And that is something I've heard from many people who immigrate is that when they go back to their home countries, in a way, they think they're going to be embraced and completely feel like they've come home. This disconcerting thing is when you go back there and you feel more foreign than you ever have.

We do not need $1 allowed for the president to enact amnesty.

I think we need to go to a system... where we have tough enforcement. Where if you're here illegally, you're going to be deported.

Millions of infiltrators have entered our country and are eating the country like termites. Should we not uproot them?

I said that my parents had come from India. They thought America was a place where people were treated equally, and their kids would have an amazing life.

America is God's crucible, the great melting pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!

You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries...

In 1845, the Bunker Hill Aurora warned that foreigners were landing at the rate of "13,400 a month!!! 466 a day!!! 19 an hour!!!" Three years later, the same paper declared: "Our country is literally being overrun with the miserable, vicious, and unclean paupers of the old country.

Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.

Nativism is a movement that promotes favored status for established citizens or residents of a nation over newcomers or immigrants. Nativists typically oppose immigration and support restricting the legal status of specific ethnic groups because they view them as harming the culture of the host nation.

If someone is in the United States without legal status, isn't that person a criminal? Being in the United States without documentation is a civil—not a criminal—offense, so under federal law, individuals living in the United States without proper documentation are not classified as criminals. The punishment may be deportation, but unless the person has committed a crime, he or she is not subject to criminal punishment.

A number of studies show that immigrants generally have a lower level of criminal activity and incarceration than the general population, even when income and education levels are considered.3

What's wrong with the current U.S. immigration system? The current U.S. immigration system is neither comprehensive nor internally consistent, creating confusion and inconsistencies for those who want to legally enter the United States. Some lawmakers contend that the problems with the current system actually help encourage illegal immigration since in some cases it is more difficult to navigate the legal system than to enter the country illegally or overstay a visa.

President Reagan had said, in a presidential debate against Walter Mondale, "I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally." Imagine: The patron saint of the modern conservative movement made the case for a concept that today would have him pilloried by the right-wing press and those cynical politicians who have learned to exploit division for their own electoral success.

I want to be viewed like a serious actress, and I'm afraid that people are just going to see me as the poor little girl whose parents were deported when she was 14.

Trump's characterization of undocumented immigrants is, of course, absurd. Not only do the facts, well, trump his assertions, but his prejudiced views demonstrate a deep ignorance about Mexican immigrants in the United States.

We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed, and I'd like to stand with them. Also, I'd like to get their views on immigration.

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.