Quotes About Immigration

If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?

Virginians can choose to continue to elect criminal, illegal aliens like MS-13 - and by the way, they are animals - or, we can arrest them, deport them back to the countries where they came from, and build the wall!

The Democrats are fighting for illegal aliens. Donald Trump is fighting for American citizens.

As a kid, I would never have imagined I would live in England for four years. I am very happy and contented that my daughter is growing up in a country as developed as this one.

Illegal aliens have broken our laws, and they shouldn't be rewarded with amnesty and immediate legalization.

The children and families seeking asylum at our border deserve our immediate attention and humanitarian aid.

American literature has always been immigrant.

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.

It's much too easy to come here illegally and very, very difficult to become an immigrant through lawful process. I think we need to reverse those.

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

We are an immigrant nation.

There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not about my life. So, in 'A Feather on the Breath of God' I write about my parents, I write about this Russian immigrant, I write about the world of dance, but it isn't an autobiography; so much is left out.

I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.

Immigrant communities have been genuinely accepted in London.

We have a lot of comments on the news, we have a lot of rhetoric over what an immigrant is and what a deportee is, but you don't hear any real stories. I don't think we ever had the chance to really tell our side.

Our old stories happen to be your new stories. The stories that you're seeing as immigrant stories are your grandparents' stories, are your great-grandparents' stories. You just happen to be separated from them a little bit.

Immigrant stories are good stories for everyone to know.

For many immigrant groups, lack of trust in authority is something they actually bring from the countries they come from.

We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.

Yes, America is a nation of immigrants - but the immigrants have to enter legally.

America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.