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People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. — Amy Bloom

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

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

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

Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America? — Evgeni Kostitsyn

Tactical Urbanism is pure American know-how. It is the common sense that housed, fed, and prospered an entire continent of penniless immigrants. — Mike Lydon

We can't deny the financial toll illegal immigrants take on our communities. — Dick Mountjoy

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

The problem is, then you see immigrants saving cities in Baltimore and you see 40 Korean groceries get burned down. — Greg Gutfeld

respect to the Indians, because the very idea of America belongs to immigrants. — A.A. Gill

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

It's not as if she needs the torch anymore, the welcome beacon to immigrants having been long since snuffed out. Probably — Kim Stanley Robinson

At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants. — Jeff Hawkins

Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians. — Carl I. Hagen

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans. — Malcolm Wallop

We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border. — Zach Wamp

The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people. — Noam Chomsky

People associate farmworkers with illegal immigrants, and that's really not the case. — Eva Longoria

Now, where are [Mexican illegal immigrants] fleeing from? Mostly from Central America, where they're fleeing from the results of our policies. — 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

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history. — Oscar Handlin

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

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

You know, a huge drain on California's economy is the illegal immigrants. We need to close the borders. — Larry Flynt

When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens. — Greg Gutfeld

It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens. — Jon Kyl

Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States. — Nathan Deal

There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants. — Enrique Pena Nieto

The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful. — Azim Premji

I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion. — Diane Ackerman

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu. — Grace Meng

All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated. — Malcolm Gladwell

They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family. — Jeb Bush

I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do. — Lou Barletta

I am the son and grandson of immigrants. And I know that securing our borders is not anti-immigrant and we will do it. — Marco Rubio

Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day. — George F. Will

Scattered throughout the week were a surprising number of speeches about how we may be killed by undocumented immigrants driving drunk. I — Jon Ronson

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young. — Margaret Mead

Giving tuition breaks to the children of illegal immigrants needs to stop. — Mitt Romney

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

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

The British, and most European countries, have struggled to accommodate Muslim immigrants, but they have nevertheless welcomed them in large numbers. — Jay Parini

I come from a family of working people. My parents were Guatemalan immigrants who spent most of their lives in the service industry. — Hector Tobar

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up. — Howard Fast

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age. — Howard Fast

It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival. — Rudolf Arnheim

You coulld put girls' boyfriends in jail, and I could teach the immigrants how to dress!!! — Meg Cabot

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

The mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven. — Ed Koch

The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political. — Tania Bruguera

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job. — Howard Fast

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival. — Rudolf Arnheim

But she couldn't formulate the sentence in Chinese. Her knowledge of the language only extended to the daily necessities and small affections. — Jade Chang

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

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

These immigrants held out the hope of a new golden age for the old continent. — Michel Houellebecq

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter. — Timothy Murphy

Dishwasher safe, debit only, Deborah produced from the arsenal of useful English words for immigrants, with barely a pause for thought. — Sorin Suciu

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

The easiest way to hide a relationship is not to attempt to hide it. — Howard Fast

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

In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day. — Charles B. Rangel

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

...the only thing people resent more than poor immigrants are wealthy ones — Patricia Engel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants. — Charles B. Rangel

It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community — Pope Francis

The United States needs to be made more appealing to legal immigrants. — Mitt Romney

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them. — Charles B. Rangel

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. — Lamar S. Smith

Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy. — John Gokongwei

Women disappear all the time. Nobody misses them. Immigrants. Whores from Russia. Thousands of people pass through Sweden every year. — Stieg Larsson

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor. — Jack Kirby

America is so rich and fat, because it has eaten the tragedy of millions of immigrants. — Michael Gold

Keep the immigrants. Deport the Columbia faculty — Jason L. Riley

The Know Nothings fought to delay citizenship for the new immigrants and bar them from voting. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants. — Ryu Murakami

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants. — Sidney Altman

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream. — Stephen A. Schwarzman

Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories. — Cristina Henriquez

I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort. — Howard Fast

Mexicans alone - forget other immigrants - have murdered a minimum of twenty-three thousand Americans in the last few decades.68 — Ann Coulter

Unlicensed, illegal immigrants are the safest drivers on the road. — Dov Davidoff

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate. — Grover Norquist

Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester. — Preston Sturges

I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America. — Mimi Kennedy

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life. — John F. Kennedy

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

Ironically, the very brokest people in America, Hispanic immigrants, are one of America's last great cash crops. — Matt Taibbi

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents. — John Linder