Immigrants Quotes

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.

So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.

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.

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

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.

America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.

If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.

I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants are speaking up.

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.

Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact that we are a nation of immigrants.

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.

America was built on immigrants, and what they bring 'to the table.'

It's our right, as a sovereign nation to chose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us.

People that have died 10 years ago are still voting, illegal immigrants are voting.

We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.

Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom.

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.

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.

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

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.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.

Spelling is difficult because there are too many rules. Silent letters only exist to make it harder for illegal immigrants to learn English.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

America is or should be about inclusion. Immigrants like muslims don't and can't fit the white European mold that prevailed in this country 50 years ago.

America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?

All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.

I saw my parents, as immigrants, try and try and try to take root and get ahead and so yes, 'Sweat' resonates with me incredibly. And I was an outsider. So I know very much about that.

These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.

Immigrants, as troubling as they are to some people, are an integral part of what the American Dream is supposed to be. They're understandable to a considerable number of Americans.

Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who these [immigrants] are, where they come from. I always say Trojan Horse.

I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.