Chance Quote by Diane Guerrero

In my own personal experience, I've had different family members who have been held in immigration detention because they've had some sort of challenge…

— Opal Tometi

My parents' deportation gave me so much strength to keep on moving forward, because any type of failure - whether in school or with…

— Diane Guerrero

Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.

— Diane Guerrero

My parents came here from Colombia during a time of great instability there. Escaping a dire economic situation at home, they moved to New…

— Diane Guerrero

My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older brother was…

— Diane Guerrero

I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw children lined…

— Kamala Harris

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

— Noma Dumezweni

My parents did not come to the U.S. with much; they had a lot of hardship.

— Nathan Chen

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died -…

— George J. Mitchell

Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.

— Nancy Pelosi

When there are deportations, you better believe there are families involved - there are parents being separated from their children. It doesn't reflect our…

— Diane Guerrero

My parents are immigrants to this country. They came to this country for a better opportunity just like everyone else.

— Amine