Quotes About Immigration

When we came and rented the North Perth home, my father had a little ice chest, and on top of the ice chest was a radio. And we were sitting at our lunch time on Sunday eating dinner after church, and my Mum says, 'Look where we've ended up. We've got a table cloth on our table, we've got food on our plate, and we're listening to music.' That was a big thing for my mother. - Mrs Helen Doropoulos, Greece

I feel Australian. He feels Czechoslovakian. I am completely home here. I give them [Australia] my children, we do good, we work all our lives, we give Australia a lot. Libuse Slehofer

They worked hard all their lives, what they basically did was, they built a little Ukraine, a little society for themselves here in Brisbane. They did this in all the cities … not a ghetto, it wasn't inward looking to that extent, but it was inward looking in the sense that it was a place to go—somewhere where you could identify; where you could be understood; go about remembering and preserving your roots. - Walter Sucharsky, 2nd Generation Australian

And as I write this, Romans 13:1 recently made the rounds on the American political scene to shield the administration from criticism for separating illegal immigrants from their children at the border—which is just one of many reasons why politicians should not be allowed near a Bible without adult supervision.

2049 USA passes illegals dispersal bill. All illegal immigrants in original states on Earth deported to the territories on new US planets.

Or, as Philip Ruddock, Howard's immigration minister, put it to the author: 'Indonesia will work with you if you don't decide to embarrass them over it.' Yet this is exactly what the Abbott opposition had done. It violated the Howard precedent and the Ruddock rule by broadcasting the tow-back plan loud and long.

in 1939, he issued an executive order indefinitely extending the visitors' visas of all Jews then in the United States, thereby saving another 15,000 Jews from repatriation and death.