Back Quote by Mitch McConnell

Throughout history, groups of Americans have attacked immigrants who fled danger and destruction at home and arrived in America hoping for the opportunities those…

— Jack Schlossberg

“We all have come here from somewhere else, and the vast majority of us are only a few generations removed from another land. Whether…

— Dan Rather

“America has nothing to fear from these newcomers, that they have come here for the same reason that families came here 150 years ago—all…

— Barack Obama

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came…

— Jacques Pepin

I didn't choose to come to the United States, but being raised here has shaped exactly who I am today, and I can't imagine…

— Pedro Pascal

What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from…

— Blue Balliett

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents,…

— Christopher Walken

This first-generation narrative keeps happening over and over and over again, whether it was Irish or Jewish or our community, South Asians, Japanese-Americans, Mexican-Americans.…

— Hasan Minhaj

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

— Garrison Keillor

In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms…

— Barack Obama

If anyone can say 'go back,' it's Native Americans. My Pueblo ancestors, despite being targeted at every juncture - despite facing famine and drought…

— Deb Haaland

All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt