Immigrants Quotes

Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday.

Thousands of Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants.

And they [illegal immigrants] will come back, but they are going to have to go out, and hopefully they get back.

People have to stop employing illegal immigrants.

I was an illegal immigrant.

He had 'deep concerns' with the pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants under consideration by the group, calling it 'profoundly unfair' to legal immigrants.

It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic.

I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.

Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise lost. We all now are so mobile, so nomadic .

Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream.

We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.

I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.

Donald Trump is the grandson of German immigrants. Don't worry. The last time a German guy with crazy hair took over a country, everything turned out fine.

Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters or flag-burners, to ban ethnic categories of immigrants, and so on.

I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.

People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S.

Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from America, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.

Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days, and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget.

The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly, really swiftly, identified and removed.

What separates us Americans from the countries that so many immigrants are leaving is that we are a nation of laws - that is the foundation of our way of life and all future prosperity.

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

Mexico continues to make billions on not only our bad trade deals but also relies heavily on the billions of dollars in remittances sent from illegal immigrants in the United States.

Unlicensed, illegal immigrants are the safest drivers on the road.

America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.

...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

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.

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

People associate farmworkers with illegal immigrants, and that's really not the case.

Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?

Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world.

When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

America and Mexico are both a nation of immigrants and we are a nation of laws and we can act accordingly.

Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them and undercut Americans' wages.

We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.

America is a nation of immigrants, and we should treat those who come to our country with dignity and respect.

Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

The idea is, Mr. [Donald] Trump won the primaries in no small way because he had this very forceful position, saying all 11 or 12 million undocumented immigrants will be forced to leave the country.

The estimated 11 or so million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States. This is what Mr. [Donald ] Trump promised back in November.

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.

Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants?