Adapting Quote by Michelle Malkin

One of the defining characteristics or difference between today's illegal immigration and the immigration of old is the immigrants of the late 1800s through…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways,…

— Ayad Akhtar

That discussion can take place only in an atmosphere in which illegal immigration is a memory of the past, no longer with us, allowing…

— Donald Trump

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

— Luis Gutierrez

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration…

— Milton Friedman

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our…

— Bob Filner

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

— Anonymous

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

— Tao Lin

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

— Meghan McCain

A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to…

— Ted Cruz