Quotes About Immigration

When people say they are angry about "immigration," in other words, they are not always talking about something they have lived and experienced. They are talking about something imaginary, something they fear.

During the late 1910s and early '20s, immigrant workers at the Ford automotive plant in Dearborn, Michigan, were given free, compulsory "Americanization" classes. In addition to English lessons, there were lectures on work habits, personal hygiene, and table manners. The first sentence they memorized was "I am a good American.

The European immigrants who emerged from the Ford Motor Company melting pot came to the United States because they hoped to assimilate into mainstream American society. The Hmong came to the United States for the same reason they had left China in the nineteenth century: because they were trying to resist assimilation.

She had no patience with foreign accents.

SEC. 6. All free white persons who shall emigrate to this republic, and who shall, after a residence of six months, make oath before some competent authority that he intends to reside permanently in the same, and shall swear to support this Constitution, and that he will bear true allegiance

No self-respecting free city would allow politicians to weigh in on refugee issues.

Did they practice looking suspicious in mirrors? Welcome to the United States. Don't even think about chewing gum the wrong way.' (Carlos)

She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. Are you an illegal alien?

It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.

Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.

While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

The majority of people who come to America come to America for a better life for their family.

The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act went further, barring the immigration of all Chinese laborers.

Assimilation refers to the reduction of differences between ethnic groups over time.

For example, the experiences of the Japanese are quite different from those of the Hmong from southeast Asia, many who came as refugees in the wake of the Vietnam War. Likewise, the experiences of people of Mexican origin are quite different from those of immigrants coming from Cuba.

1891-1892 Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles. 1883 The New Colossus by EMMA LAZARUS, written to raise funds to complete the Statue of Liberty

Others were simply possessed by a feeling that they had made a catastrophic mistake. They had made an irreversible error in coming to England, and their lives would never recover - their lives would never again be their lives, but the story of this huge mistake that they had made.

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.

Once, when we were both in the same South Carolina restaurant, Tancredo sent my table an order of chips and salsa, meaning I'm not sure what. I guess he thought that since I didn't want to kick out of the country every Mexican-born immigrant, I must like chips and salsa.

Ronald Wilson Reagan: America represents something universal in the human spirit. I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, "You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or a Turk." But then he added, "Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

The United States is a country of laws and not men and that we will provide safety to those who come to us for safety.")