Country Quote by Nico Santos

Within the Filipino community, everybody knows somebody who's undocumented.

— Nico Santos

I think being an immigrant makes me overly optimistic.

— Ilhan Omar

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding.”

— Ron Chernow

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'm simply asking that people who arrive from Cuba receive the same treatment as any other immigrant who comes from another country. The only…

— Marco Rubio

My grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. My great-grandmother, my bisabuela, carried him over the border in her arms.

— Eric Garcetti

My dad was undocumented for a period of time, my mom was also undocumented for a period of time.

— Nico Santos

We must work to change in our hearts and minds what it looks like to be undocumented. It is the high schooler dreaming of…

— Nico Santos

We all need to call upon our lawmakers to create a path to citizenship for hard-working, law-abiding undocumented people and their families.

— Nico Santos

Nobody here's for open borders. When undocumented people are apprehended, they should be sent back to wherever they came from.

— Richard Polanco

It is erroneous and profoundly irresponsible to suggest that up to three million undocumented immigrants living in America are dangerous criminals.

— Kevin de Leon