Immigrants Quotes
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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
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Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
Nathan Deal
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
Stephen Ambrose
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My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
Jack Kirby
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It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
Rudolf Arnheim
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It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution to the fabric of American life. But...under the pressures we face today, we can't afford to lose control of our borders, or to take on new financial burdens, at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care, and the education of our own people. Therefore, immigration must be a priority for this administration.
Bill Clinton
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Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.
Ha Jin
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It's our right as a sovereign nation to choose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us.
Donald Trump
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In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.
Eliot Spitzer
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This country was founded by immigrants... I don't see Mr. Trump looking like an Apache, so all of us, we are immigrants.
Eugenio Derbez
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I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.
Lou Barletta
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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.
Eliot Spitzer
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If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?
Paul Craig Roberts
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America and Mexico are both a nation of immigrants and we are a nation of laws and we can act accordingly.
Hillary Clinton
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The wise decision by President Obama to grant some undocumented immigrants the right to remain in the United States for two years without the threat of deportation is already benefitting the country.
Eliot Spitzer
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We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.
Hillary Clinton
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Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants?
Jay-Z
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This report shows the war on terrorism became a war on immigrants
Anthony Romero
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We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.
Rupert Murdoch
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Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them and undercut Americans' wages.
Hillary Clinton
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We studied a mosque, and this is when we were at Notre Dame, and in this mosque they had people from a variety of countries, most of them immigrants. In some of the countries, when you go into a mosque you remove your shoes. To not do so could be punishable even by death in that nation. In other countries, it would be a great offense to remove their shoes when they come into the mosque, a sign of disrespect.
Michael Emerson
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Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1.44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state.
Carole Keeton