Armenian genocide Quote by Alexis Ohanian

My dad was undocumented for a period of time, my mom was also undocumented for a period of time.

— Nico Santos

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my…

— James Altucher

My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious…

— Jan Schakowsky

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

— George J. Mitchell

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

— Arthur Rock

My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.

— Norman Braman

My mother was born in a refugee camp in Germany before the family immigrated to western Canada. They were able to get visas thanks…

— Chrystia Freeland

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

— Bob Schaffer

My grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. My great-grandmother, my bisabuela, carried him over the border in her arms.

— Eric Garcetti

I arrived in this country as a refugee child with my sister and my mother.

— Noma Dumezweni

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an…

— Leonard Nimoy

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking…

— Daniel Nathans