Quotes About Immigration

Trump was praising Operation Wetback — a 1954 endeavor in which Mexicans were rounded up and dumped in the wilderness, where they were stranded without food or possessions and 88 of them died in the heat.) These

La gente è venuta in questo paese per cercare soldi o libertà. Se non hai i soldi, ti aggrappi ancora più rabbiosamente alle tue libertà.

People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don't have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can't afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles.

In effetti, il più famoso palazzo di New York è fatto di materiali provenienti da quasi tutti i posti tranne New York, proprio come la città deve la sua grandezza agli immigrati

Un muro muy largo y ancho tampoco sirve. Vamos a suponer, como ejercicio mental, que Estados Unidos pudiera cerrar con su ejército y con nuevos muros las 1.952 millas que lo separan de México. Entonces ¿qué piensa hacer con sus 12.383 millas de costas? Entraríamos, estoy seguro, en la época de los balseros mexicanos —a la cubana— y los "coyotes" o traficantes de indocumentados serían llamados "tiburones".

Pero este tipo de argumentos no tuvo mucho peso cuando el viernes 29 de septiembre del 2006 el Senado de Estados Unidos autorizó la construcción de un muro de casi 700 millas en la frontera con México. Ni siquiera hubo fuerte oposición. Ochenta senadores votaron a favor (incluyendo a Barack Obama y John McCain) y sólo diecinueve se opusieron.

In America, immigration is the story of hope and achievement, of youth, of freedom, of creation. But all entrances on one stage are exits elsewhere.

It is a miserable irony that the potato came from America and sent these people back to America as desperate economic refugees.

In the nineteenth century, one in three British soldiers was an Irishman.

Yet I lay in bed that night imagining what it would be like not to feel such an alien in England, to be able to live with someone to whom I could speak casually about things without having to give long explanations, what it would be like not to live in England at all, but here, in a crowd, rather than always being and feeling on the edges of everything.

I don't think I ever got over those early days, though. Even after all these years I can't get over the feeling of being alien in England, of being a foreigner. Sometimes I think that what I feel for England is disappointed love.

When I think of this story, I can't help but think of the many immigrants, both legal and illegal, who flee to the United States either in fear for their lives in their home country, or in hopes of a better future. Jesus was a child taken into Egypt as an alien, a refugee.

Island populations often breed strange and interesting genomes. Because Iceland is so small, with a precisely known chronology of inhabitation to the present day, we have the most comprehensive log of everyone who has ever lived there since the ninth century. There have only been thirty-five generations of Icelanders. Since the end of the era of settlement, there's been very little immigration into Iceland of note.

33When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. 34The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt:

Black people are expected to be passive citizens, good immigrants, mute and grateful.

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.

I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.

Anyone who's gotten their passport in America will tell you, when you get it, it still says what country you were born in. So I remember getting my American passport. I was like, 'Woo-hoo! I'm going to travel.' And I opened it up. It said, 'Born in Iran.' I'm like, 'Oh, come on, man!'

I do not favor or support, nor will I vote for, a pathway to citizenship for people that are here who've broken the law. I would support - after we have developed a secure border - a mechanism for allowing those folks to work here in America... Everything that we should do should be based on good, sound policy and what's right for America.

There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.

The fact is this is a great country because we've always embraced immigrants. The fact is we have every right to enforce our borders and to protect them, but we also need to provide a pathway for citizenship.

I will join the fight for the DREAM Act that will create a pathway to citizenship for our Dreamers.

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.