Quotes About Immigration

The border patrol gave us a list of the diseases that they're concerned about, and Ebola was one of those.

The idea that the Hispanic vote hinges on one issue - immigration - is the most ridiculous and patronizing notion.

Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish in D.C. He is absolutely an open borders guy, through and through.

People say to me all the time, 'When did you know that you had fully become an American?' And I say, 'The day I realized I loved peanut butter.'

I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt.

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

When you've lived in a country for 50 years and you pay your tax, you have a pension and insurance, you've raised a family and sent your kids to uni. To get to an age and be told you don't belong here and you have to go back to where you come from is really saddening and infuriating.

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.

I've lived in London more or less permanently since the 1950s.

I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.

When I go to Canada, there's all kinds of legal paperwork that has to be done. There's a special permit.

If Brexit happens, there will have to be change - whether people want it or not - around work permits. It won't be freedom of movement for European players, so that landscape will change.

As American Jews and descendants of immigrants, we never forget where our families came from or what members of our community experienced. Because we remember, we look out for those who are freeing persecution, oppression, and danger.

People come to this country because they view our culture as the best. It is a culture free of persecution, a culture free of oppressive government, and above all... a culture of really, really cool stuff.

Every state in this nation has been made better by those who have chosen to move here to escape persecution or extreme poverty.

Ciudad llena de inmigrantes, sin alma todavía tras sus edificios de vidrio y sus autopistas de concreto, donde el éxito se mide en millones de bolívares, Caracas no tiene tiempo para reconocer talentos que no vengan consagrados de antemano - Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza

In the United States the progress is still more striking. In spite of immigration, or rather precisely because of the influx of surplus European labour, the United States have multiplied their wealth tenfold.

And he was more Irish in America than he'd ever been at home.

Every time an alien votes, it cancels out the vote of a U.S. citizen!