Immigrants Quote by Andrew Lam Download Open image “In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat.” — Andrew Lam ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Immigrants Immigration Scapegoat Terrorism War War on terror War on terrorism
In times of economic distress, it's only natural for people - and Americans have done this for many years - to look for a… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“The tendency to separate war stories from immigrant stories means that most Americans don’t understand how many of the immigrants and refugees in the… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“The average American, or European, who feels that refugees or immigrants threaten their jobs does not recognize that the real culprits for their economic… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
There are two types of immigrants. Those who bring problems and those who bring solutions to existing problems. Both are despised. — Mahesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
[The immigrant] becomes a kind of insurance policy against the effects of the recession. By blaming him, the pressure valve is regulated in times… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously not desperate… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“If poor, young, and nonwhite, the intruder from outside is deemed guilty at first sight, guilty of indigence, of chaos, of carrying the unconcealed… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited commercials like… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
When a well-rounded character takes over, he doesn't lecture you about his history and how he is misunderstood. He lives his life, does things… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I thought, "Wow, English is like magic." It not only shattered my voice, it changed me physiologically. I believed this for months ... There's… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“He knew it even before he could fully articulate it: between East and West lay a terrain that needed to be charted by stories,… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We're going to create factory jobs for recent immigrants, and Donald Trump is going to take care of them. That's why his numbers, even… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
If you chose a particular religion, you were siding with the government religion of whatever region you were in. That's never been true in… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I don't like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, 'What are we gonna do about all these immigrants?' and… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who these [immigrants] are, where they come from. I always say Trojan… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
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