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Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized.
— Padma Lakshmi
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.
— Amy Bloom
They say: "We're all immigrants." They mean: You hate brown people. You say: "I'm just for a line. Stand in line, asshole.
— Greg Gutfeld
The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.
— Phil Gramm
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
— Tacitus
For a certain generation of African immigrants cleaning offices became part of the culture like male circumcision and supporting Arsenal.
— Ben Aaronovitch
We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
— Ted Cruz
We of alien looks or words must stick together.
— C.J. Sansom
The problem is, then you see immigrants saving cities in Baltimore and you see 40 Korean groceries get burned down.
— Greg Gutfeld
Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.
— Gary Shteyngart
Like poor immigrants throughout the ages, Jews there adjusted to the jobs no one else would do.
— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.
— Dylan Moran
Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.
— Carl I. Hagen
The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.
— Noam Chomsky
I guess my ideals died the hardest. It's often that way with the children of immigrants. We need to buy the dream so bad we sometimes can't wake up.
— Sara Paretsky
The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration.
— Nigel Lawson
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
— Rabindranath Maharaj
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
— Eric Hoffer
Stability and security are just illusions. But they are necessary illusions because without them there would be no way of going on.
— Andrew Crofts
A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.
— Michael Gove
I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.
— Jan C. Ting
So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.
— Luis Gutierrez
Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday.
— Conan O'Brien
The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
— Charles B. Rangel
I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
— M.I.A.
My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
— Jack Kirby
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
— Eric Liu
As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.
— Jose Andres
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
— Stephen Ambrose
I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.
— Maurice Sendak
You seem damn sure of yourself for a man your age?"
"I am as old as I can be at my age. I don't know very much, but I know the water. — Howard Fast
"I am as old as I can be at my age. I don't know very much, but I know the water. — Howard Fast
[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.
— William J. Clinton
It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community
— Pope Francis
There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.
— Antonis Samaras
We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox ... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.
— Rupert Murdoch
People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.
— Andrew Crofts
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
— Preston Sturges
So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.
— Luis Gutierrez
I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America.
— Mimi Kennedy
In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.
— Charles B. Rangel
At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.
— Jeff Sessions
Ironically, the very brokest people in America, Hispanic immigrants, are one of America's last great cash crops.
— Matt Taibbi
Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
— Charles B. Rangel
Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants.
— Tom Gjelten
Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.
— Steve Israel
And we'll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy!
— Hillary Clinton
My parents were immigrants.
— Mario Cuomo
It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
— John Linder
I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.
— Michael Trevino
People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.
— Grover Norquist
All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.
— Daniel Pipes
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
— Margaret Mead
Scattered throughout the week were a surprising number of speeches about how we may be killed by undocumented immigrants driving drunk. I
— Jon Ronson
As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.
— Grace Meng
The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
— Azim Premji
More than 1 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and my country remains the largest source of immigrants to the United States.
— Enrique Pena Nieto
...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.]
— James Vescovi
Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you.
— June Ahern
At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.
— Cheech Marin
America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.
— Michael Bloomberg
Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
— Yakov Smirnoff
I do not support amnesty. I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
— Brian Sandoval
It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens.
— Jon Kyl
What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.
— Jim Sensenbrenner
They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million.
— David Letterman
These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.
— Mike Lee
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.
— Filip Dewinter
If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Mohammed should get the job.
— Mona Sahlin
I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.
— Marvin Olasky
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
— Luis Gutierrez
When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
— Michael Mina
Women disappear all the time. Nobody misses them. Immigrants. Whores from Russia. Thousands of people pass through Sweden every year.
— Stieg Larsson
It continues to impress me how fluently Americans, even immigrants like her, speak of their achievements.
— Olivia Sudjic
Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.
— George F. Will
Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.
— Antonis Samaras
I was an illegal immigrant.
— Salma Hayek
They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy.
— John Gokongwei
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
— Lamar S. Smith
Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens.
— William J. Clinton
That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.
— Marvin Olasky
An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants.
— Mitt Romney
The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
— Chuck Palahniuk