Immigrants Quotes
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Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.
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Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
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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.
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
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My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
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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.
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It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
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Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
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I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.
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Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants?
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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.
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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.
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I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.
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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.
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We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end up with what we have. We also find that, you know, if you're immigrants, you're not part of that history.
