Dad Quote by Nico Santos

I learned at a very young age that my parents were undocumented.

— Diane Guerrero

On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an…

— Alexis Ohanian

A lot of our family was undocumented. My mom and dad were both super conservative. My dad had a green card; my mom was…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my…

— James Altucher

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

— Eric Garcetti

Both my parents came into the United States from Mexico.

— Cain Velasquez

I got here when I was 12, I found out I was undocumented when I was 16, I became a journalist when I was…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

My mother didn't get her citizenship until much later in life.

— Jabari Parker

My father's immigrant story is a big part of who I am.

— Tom Suozzi

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

— Mitt Romney

I was one of the only children having an immigrant father in my elementary school.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

I came in as a legal immigrant. My dad came first. We had to wait about a year.

— Shiva Ayyadurai