Quotes About Immigration

It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.

We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

Becoming American meant rejecting one of the two worlds. It meant trying to hide the grease stains saturating the paper in which your school lunch of a fried potato and egg sandwich on crusty bread was wrapped, while the rest of your classmates ate ham on white bread with mayonnaise.

My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.

The first weeks in the US, I was asking, 'Where is my food?'

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That's why leaving the EU is necessary.

We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries.

Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.

When we came to America, though, we didn't know what the right thing was.

Honey, your uncle don't even have his papers right. What kind of liberties you think he has?" Aisha

One day she'll exist on paper in this country. She can sit on buses and take classes and get a job and never again feel that churning in her stomach if someone asks for ID.

Ja, Len. Das Land geht vor die Hunde. Und die Ausländer und die Wellensittiche sind schuld daran." Er rieb sich die Stirn. "Warum die Wellensittiche, Bert?" "Warum die Ausländer, Len?" Ich grinste. "Sie können nicht gleichzeitig Sozialschmarotzer sei und uns bei den Löhnen unterbieten.

Moving to America felt as splitting and eternal as death.

They spoke little of the past. Instead, they looked to all that life here in this new land, America, would bring them and their children. Their heads and hearts were full of dreams and plans for the future, and the years together

Even before the Civil War, outsiders from Catholic Ireland and from Asia had been made to feel unwelcome in "the land of the free." And this was to say nothing of the black population, whose bondage remained a gross contradiction to the lofty sentiments of the Declaration of Independence.

The practice continues throughout the country. Immigrants can feel "on the border" almost anywhere in the territory of the U.S., and have been subject to such raids in many Northern cities. The key is surprise and drama, especially sudden unexpected violence, or simply the threat of it, which instills wariness and unease in whole immigrant families as they come to and from work. In

Immigration detention centers are now a supplement to the prison archipelago in the U.S., holding as many as 400,000 (at times more than this) who are suffering conditions often criticized by Amnesty International for human rights violations.

Private prisons have a special interest in tapping the burgeoning immigrant groups to fill beds and cells, especially in the post-9/11 period of the so-called "war on terror." The