Immigrants Quotes

• When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • Save
  • Immigrants

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • History
  • Nation
  • Immigrants

• California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • California
  • Alien
  • Immigrants

• A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Perception
  • Poor
  • Immigration

• Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Immigrants

• Donald Trump is the grandson of German immigrants. Don't worry. The last time a German guy with crazy hair took over a country, everything turned out fine.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Country
  • Guy

• In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Immigrants

• I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Know
  • Like
  • Immigrants

• We're a nation of immigrants.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Nation
  • Immigrants

• Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • Now
  • Immigrants

• Highly skilled immigrants are critical to innovation and are important contributors to economic growth in the United States.

  

  Paul Jacobs
  • Growth
  • Innovation
  • Immigrants

• Trump is more conservative on individual rights, domestic issues, economic issues and defense. On the other hand, Clinton is quite liberal and wishes to open the borders for more trades and more immigrants.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Hand
  • Trump
  • Economic

• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Community
  • Paris
  • Immigrants

• One way to quantify the immigrant contribution to the overall economy is to measure their share of the U.S. economic output. One such examination for the years 2009-2011 found that immigrants contributed 14.7 percent of the total economic output.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Immigrants
  • Immigrant

• If you're saying you should not be allowed in the country, you should be consistent and say that to all immigrants.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Country
  • Saying
  • Immigrants

• For a lot of children of immigrants, what happens is your parents want you to do something very linear that they can understand. I had an aptitude in sciences and never really questioned it.

  

  Eva Chen
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Sciences

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

  

  Josiah Strong
  • Serious
  • Civilization
  • Cities

• Within this very myopic perspective, immigrants fill the labor slots that need filling, and those foreign-born workers play no other role in our country’s cultural, political, social, or economic life. Our children’s schools are unaffected, the welfare state is untouched, the balance of political power is unchanged.

  

  George J. Borjas
  • Country
  • Role
  • Immigrants

• The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

  

  Bill Gates
  • U.S.
  • Treatment
  • Immigration laws

• I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Give
  • Him
  • Immigrants

• Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.

  

  Dan Benishek
  • Immigrants
  • Prisons

• First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Always
  • First
  • Immigrants

• The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Immigration
  • Immigrants

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