Atlantic ocean Quote by Stephen Colbert

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

I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.

— Eric Garcetti

My parents are both immigrants, and we traveled a lot.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history. Across the…

— George H. W. Bush

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

— Eric Garcetti

Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the largest voluntary migrations in…

— George W. Bush

When we were in Egypt, we were refugees. My family and I were homeless. For five years, out of all of the countries in…

— Luol Deng

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

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

— James Gray

I'll also tell you that to no less extent my mom, who was the daughter of Irish immigrants.

— Mike Pence

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

My father came to Britain in search of a better life. My aunts, uncles and cousins fled here in search of safety as Cyprus's…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis