Immigration Quote by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed…

— Jane Goodall

“Know that no refugee does so because he believes that he wants to take advantage of your economy or steal your jobs. The only…

— Daniel D. Maurer

Some politicians fear the burden that migrants will impose on local communities and taxpayers. Others fear extremists masquerading as genuine refugees.

— Jose Angel Gurria

“The immigrants they liked to hire to get work done cheap, then use them for every scapegoat situation possible, forgetting they wouldn’t even be…

— George R.R. Martin

Refugees are threatening, not just to Americans, but also in many countries the world over. And it's partially because, unlike immigrants, refugees do not…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

The jobs Americans don't want are the ones the migrants fill.

— Stephanie Ruhle

“Refugees are not like you and me. They are you and me. That terrible river of the wretched and damned flowing through Europe is…

— Richard Flanagan

If we have no foreign workers, our economy suffers; our own lives suffer.

— Lee Hsien Loong

“The tendency to separate war stories from immigrant stories means that most Americans don’t understand how many of the immigrants and refugees in the…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'

— Joe Kaeser

“I came to understand that in the United States, land of the fabled American dream, it is un-American to be a refugee. The refugee…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“If poor, young, and nonwhite, the intruder from outside is deemed guilty at first sight, guilty of indigence, of chaos, of carrying the unconcealed…

— Eduardo Galeano