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We were second-generation immigrants, and it was luxury enough to go to college. The luxury of the arts was still a generation away.
- Robert Picardo
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The world's poor have discovered that the E.U. (that's the country we live in, no point pretending there's anywhere called Britain any more) has absolutely no clue how to stop determined immigrants.
- Peter Hitchens
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I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.
- Amanda Hale
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The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
- Otto Schily
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When I got my law degree and my license to practice here in the District of Columbia, I represented several immigrants who had entered without inspection.
- Thomas Hardiman
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When you're the child of undocumented immigrants, you learn to keep your mouth shut.
- Diane Guerrero
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
- Lamar S. Smith
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For too long the U.S. immigration system has focused on accepting low-skilled immigrants. Basic economics tells us that the surge of low-skilled workers depresses wages and harms the prospects of American workers.
- Mercedes Schlapp
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I think it's so important we're a nation of laws but also a nation of immigrants.
- Raja Krishnamoorthi
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I adore 'Broad City,' but the one Latino is queer for jokes. You see queerness of Latinos in this emasculated with an accent or fez on a set '70s show. It's always like, 'Ha, ha, funny emasculated immigrants.'
- Tanya Saracho
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The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.
- Spencer Bachus
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Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.
- Spencer Bachus
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Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy.
- John Gokongwei
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I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.
- Lou Barletta
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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.
- Antonio Munoz Molina
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This country was founded by immigrants... I don't see Mr. Trump looking like an Apache, so all of us, we are immigrants.
- Eugenio Derbez
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Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
- Samuel P. Huntington
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I have nothing against Indian Muslims but there are certain 'mohallas' in different parts of the State which have become the hub of illegal immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh, which need to be cleaned.
- Raj Thackeray
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There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of things they don't want to share.
- Anchee Min
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
- Eddie Izzard
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The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.
- Juan Williams
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I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
- Brian Sandoval
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We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.
- Elton Gallegly
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Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.
- Elton Gallegly
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In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.
- Elton Gallegly
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Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.
- Steve Israel
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In 1900, as the immigrants come down the gangplank into Jersey City, they expect the streets to be paved with gold, and they were only paved with gold in Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz,' of course.
- David Levering Lewis
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The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why should women be any different?
- Sarah Lacy
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When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.
- Ruchi Sanghvi
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
- Samuel P. Huntington
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The rise of populism is in part a response to stagnating incomes and job loss, owing mostly to new technologies but widely attributed to imports and immigrants.
- Richard N. Haass
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Mr. Trump never made any derogatory or disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants... He was talking about Mexico. They're allowing people to pour through their borders, and that's a problem for our national security.
- Michael Cohen
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To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our foreign policy platform is very important.
- Jill Stein
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The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population.
- Jan C. Ting
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What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.
- Jim Sensenbrenner
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The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.
- Jim Ryun
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Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.
- Yitzhak Shamir
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A lot of these liberal churches that harbor illegal immigrants who are criminals say they are following the example of Jesus. They are following the Jesus of their imagination rather than the Jesus of the Bible.
- Robert Jeffress
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You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration.
- Jan Brewer
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I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country.
- Rick Santelli
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Obama has a strong record on immigration enforcement, outdoing both Republican and Democratic predecessors. He has deported over 1 million immigrants, focusing on those with criminal records. As documented by many nonpartisan sources, by 2011, Obama had reduced illegal immigration crossings to net zero.
- Donna Brazile
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Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.
- John Shadegg
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If our focus in immigration reform is exclusively on high-skilled or STEM immigrants, where do the rest of the millions yearning to join our ranks fit in?
- Cedric Richmond
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Feeling unsafe in your own home? Look no further than those terrorists and criminals and illegal immigrants who have been given free reign and on whom Trump says we need to 'get tough.'
- Kristen Soltis Anderson
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I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.
- Pim Fortuyn
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Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.
- Timothy Murphy
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There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.
- Timothy Murphy
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Immigrants greatly contribute to our country's economic prosperity.
- Bill Foster
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I'm a son of immigrants. I'm not going to reduce my commitment to immigration. But can I empathize with the fact that if your town was 95 percent all white and now it's down to 60, that that can scare you? Can I empathize with that? Yeah.
- Anand Giridharadas
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Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
- Preston Sturges
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We must be clear: Donald Trump is lying when he conflates immigrants coming across the border with MS-13 gangs.
- Pramila Jayapal
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We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.
- Rupert Murdoch
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The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
- Bill Gates
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I think the narrative of people being caught between two cultures as immigrants is very harmful. It's exclusionary. It essentially tries to argue that some Americans are more real than others.
- Ken Liu
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American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.
- Ruth Reichl
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I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.
- Jan C. Ting
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Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of getting caught, against the benefits of a better life.
- Jan C. Ting
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All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants.
- Jan C. Ting
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The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration.
- Nigel Lawson
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I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?
- Jesmyn Ward
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I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable and yet still enables us to get a crop out of the ground in south Georgia.
- John Linder
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It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
- John Linder
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The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.
- John Linder
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My husband is so upset by President Trump's scapegoating of immigrants and Muslims, he refuses to even visit the United States.
- Pamela Druckerman
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I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'
- Mayim Bialik
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I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.
- Michael Trevino
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Donald Trump is a champion for legal immigrants.
- Michael Cohen
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There are a lot of Latinos who believe that allowing illegal immigrants to cut in front of the line ahead of those pursuing the legal path sends the wrong signal. The GOP needs to articulate that message respectfully but boldly.
- Angela McGlowan
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We need legal immigration as an alternative to illegal immigration and a way of getting the millions of unauthorized immigrants already here to get legal and get in compliance with our laws.
- Luis Gutierrez
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In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who have made lives for themselves and their families in the United States.
- Jared Polis
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Irrespective of our foreign policies, for decades, other nations and peoples could see, in the United States, a strong democracy that could maintain social cohesion, welcome immigrants of all backgrounds, and count on stable institutions.
- Ben Rhodes
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I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.
- Mario Cuomo
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Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
- J. D. Hayworth
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Now and forevermore, I'm going to stick up for immigrants, and I'm going to stick up for Hispanic people and their rights. I feel like that's just my job.
- Camila Cabello
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We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.
- Bob Menendez
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The illegal immigrants are like termites. They are eating the grain that should go to the poor; they are taking our jobs.
- Amit Shah
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Bernie Sanders supports offering a pathway to citizenship for immigrants already in the U.S. and halting deportations for almost 9 million hardworking undocumented fathers and mothers.
- Nicholas Gonzalez
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
- Gary Miller
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We need to reform our immigration system from top to bottom and make sure our country is not only safer for, but also more inclusive of, immigrants.
- Wayne Messam
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As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.
- Luis Gutierrez
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Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.
- Luis Gutierrez
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Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
- Luis Gutierrez
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This is a land of immigrants, and most come here for opportunity, a second chance.
- Ilhan Omar
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A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
- Fabrizio Moreira
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OneAmerica worked over the course of a decade to bring the movement of immigrants and communities of color together with the movement for marriage equality in Washington.
- Pramila Jayapal
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Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
- Eric Liu
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My parents are both immigrants, and we traveled a lot.
- Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
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If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.
- Viktor Orban
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My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
- Ted Cruz
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
- Tammy Duckworth
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At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.
- Jeff Hawkins
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Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
- Charles Kennedy
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America has long been the land of immigrants.
- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.
- Zack de la Rocha
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My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
- Martin Lewis Perl
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My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.
- Jaboukie Young-White
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Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.
- Barack Obama
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Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation.
- James Surowiecki
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The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.
- Nathan Deal
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