Immigrants Quotes · Page 9

Too many immigrants lack basic workplace protections because of their immigration status.

— Alex Padilla

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

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

— John F. Kennedy

I think Donald Trump will articulate what we do with the people [immigrants] who are here.

— Mike Pence

It's worth remembering that immigrants come to this country to work, they don't come to get handouts.

— Mazie Hirono

The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.

— Ruben Martinez

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

— Tom Bodett

“Like poor immigrants throughout the ages, Jews there adjusted to the jobs no one else would do.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

— Jim Goldberg

Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.

— Mary Pilon

When I got my law degree and my license to practice here in the District of Columbia, I represented several immigrants who…

— Thomas Hardiman

“Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being…

— Marjane Satrapi

Immigrants are not the main threat to the industrialized world's workforce: robots are - or, rather, artificially intelligent robots are.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

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

— Anonymous

In Los Angeles and other cities, being around immigrants is inspiring. They are touching the American Dream and reminding you how much…

— Ryan Holiday

My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.

— Jaboukie Young-White

We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the…

— Frankie Boyle

We are saving American lives every single day. The court system has not made it easy for us. We've even created a…

— Donald Trump

Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account…

— Mark Krikorian

I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm not anti-immigration; I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the…

— Pim Fortuyn

“She’s not Italian in any way you’d notice. No garlic smell or big armpit hair. She came here to attend medical school.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Why are we outsourcing millions of high-paying jobs to China and India? Why don't we secure the border and stop the country…

— George Noory

Legal immigrants play by the rules and come in under the law. They work, raise their families, pay taxes, and serve in…

— Edward Kennedy

The separation of families to me is very close to my heart because we lived that as immigrants. I strongly feel that…

— Gloria Estefan

“He knew that he, Millat, was a Paki no matter where he came from; that he smelled of curry; had no sexual…

— Zadie Smith

Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue…

— William J. Clinton

“I hated seeing these spasmodic upside-down chicken heads stretching to puncture my flesh. I imagined once that they reached my groin and…

— Sergio Troncoso

What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be…

— William J. Clinton

My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from…

— Gwen Ifill

“Because in America there is a naive belief that we are all rugged individuals and can make it on our own, stock…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was…

— Terry Gross

If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry…

— Malcolm X

One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.

— Barbara Jordan

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

— Vine Deloria Jr

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

— Mitt Romney

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

— Nathan Deal

The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!

— Angus Deaton

Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'

— Howard Dean

Black people are expected to be passive citizens, good immigrants, mute and grateful.

— David Olusoga

When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best.

— Donald Trump