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One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies. Norwegian-Americans the… — Unknown Author
My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're… — George J. Mitchell
Like Israel, New York City's history has been defined by immigrants who come in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life.… — Michael Bloomberg
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital punishment,… — Ken Bates
At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries… — Kevin Mattson
What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted.… — William J. Clinton
Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of… — Barack Obama
I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits,… — Gary Becker
At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal. — Jeff Sessions
I think the real, fundamental problem that the Republicans have is, 'How do we get meaner, how do we get nastier with immigrants, so that… — Luis Gutierrez
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
You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better life… — Milton Friedman
You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing.… — Milton Friedman
If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The people who came… — Milton Friedman
Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's… — Milton Friedman
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in… — William J. Clinton
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants… — Mary Catherine Bateson
Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language may not have… — Martin O'Malley
My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed… — Stephen Colbert
Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys — Max von Sydow
When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of… — Aisha Tyler
Immigrants can spread diseases for which we may have no immunity. There is also the question of crime and culture. Many immigrants come from countries… — Ron Paul
Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. And were not a party of anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite.… — George W. Bush
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped… — George W. Bush
I could have sworn that they were originally Americans who maybe fled. Maybe they were illegal immigrants or something who got here, come here with… — Rush Limbaugh

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