Immigrants Quotes

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

All the studies say that immigrants are less likely to be criminals in the United States. That's what they say. The sources are there.

I believe, I believe that the people who voted in those primaries for Donald Trump were at least helping him along with his message of hate toward immigrants, toward Muslims.

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.

It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens.

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.

I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

No go sections of the city and they work on law and the police don't go in there. That is not helping anything [in immigrants' assimilation]. That creates a situation like France, unfortunately.

It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.

We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function.

I might add, the whites who came here only say 50 years ago as immigrants have come into this country, they have set up businesses. They've developed these businesses into an industry.

Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the same protections as it does our citizens.

Immigrants have been the sustenance and the survival and the treasure of America.

We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most Americans think it's true.

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.

When better screening certain Muslim immigrants first came up, one of the big defenders was Carl Higbie. He's a former Navy Sean and a [Donald] Trump supporter.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

We need everyone to participate to make our city safe. And we know that the vast majority of immigrants are contributing positively to our economy and to our society here in the city of New York.

Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?

When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

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

I think Donald Trump will articulate what we do with the people [immigrants] who are here.

Your fear that your parents will actually kill you for dropping out of college is something that I think a lot of children of immigrants would maybe relate to.

An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants.

Illegal immigrants should be required to return to their home country.

Giving tuition breaks to the children of illegal immigrants needs to stop.

The United States needs to be made more appealing to legal immigrants.

I think there are too many guns. That's a problem. I'd rather have immigrants than guns.

Donald Trump is not an immigrant basher. His mother was a legal immigrant. His wife is a legal immigrant. He employs legal immigrants. He just likes his immigrants to be legal.

Every wave of immigrants who came [to America] were treated pretty badly, but when they all finally became integrated, all of us became Anglo-Saxons.

Finally Irish were accepted into society and became part of the political system, and there were Kennedys, and so on. But the same is true about other waves of immigrants, like the Jews in the 1950s.

I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community

As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.

[Tom Cotton] is known for his efforts to scale back legal immigration. Legal. He wants to stop legal immigrants from coming to this country. That's very popular in Republican politics .

In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

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.