Quotes About Immigration

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

One area in which we can be certain mass immigration has an effect is housing. More than one third of all new housing demand in Britain is caused by immigration. And there is evidence that without the demand caused by mass immigration, house prices could be 10% lower over a 20-year period.

When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more English than Spanish, and it's important that we don't lose our identity, our language.

'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.

I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.

The Democrats want to bring in the Third World because these are, by and large, people who have no experience with Constitutional democracy.

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

The president needs to make certain an absolutely thorough vetting system is in place that will not allow terrorists from Syria or any other part of the world into our country.

While no state has more at stake in immigration policy than California, the entire nation stands to benefit from thoughtful immigration reform.

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.

Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.

It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.

If what made America great was its ingenious openness to different cultures, then the small triangle of land at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is the New World birthplace of that idea, the spot where it first took shape.

Manhattan is where America began.

All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.

In April 2018, a retired neuropsychologist at Boston University's medical school wrote an essay for Politico Magazine lamenting Miller's nativist views and wondering what might have happened if the U.S. government had had in place the sort of anti-immigrant policies Miller favored back when his own family escaped the pogroms of Poland in the early 20th century. The author was Miller's uncle.)

I planted him in this country like a flag

In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.