Immigrants Quotes

362 Immigrants quotes by 246 unique authors

Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists… — Richard Thornton
America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants. — Jose Antonio Vargas
Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea that there is… — Charley Reese
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous… — Madison Smartt Bell
The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics … restricted by poverty… — John Pintard
The US no longer does decisions. It can neither stop the drug traffic nor legalize it. It can neither win wars nor abandon them, neither… — Fred Reed
You know, you just know, that after the president goes out there and announces he wants to make community college free for all Americans -… — John Podhoretz
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 alien. — Leonard Nimoy
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
Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them. — Spencer Bachus
Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn.… — Roger Mahony
Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they're not voting for you, b*tch. — Joy Behar
The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the… — Barack Obama
Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom! — Rick Santorum
Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins. — Renee Zellweger
Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants — Jay-Z
Illegal immigrants in considerable numbers have become productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force. Those who have established… — Ronald Reagan
In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with… — Joel Kinnaman
Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize. — Winona Ryder
More fundamentally, this kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise at the very heart of America: that this is the place where you… — Barack Obama
The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or… — Bobby Jindal
The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by… — Julius Streicher
Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This… — Yitzhak Shamir
Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English… — John Shadegg

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