Migrants Quotes

Migrants Quote of the day

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity

The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers

Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

In terms of protecting ourselves, the main issues are around how do we protect our borders [from illegal migrants and livestock and plant diseases], how do we protect our fisheries?

President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants.

I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.

Everybody who comes to the EU as a migrant is basically coming illegally.

The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.

You are more likely to be treated by a migrant in the NHS than you are to be behind them in the queue.

I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important - a very important - part of this.

All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.

Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.

The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.

People are talking about immigration like it is a disease. In fact migrants pay more in than they get out.

[Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights to control their borders.

Nobody wants anybody who's radical, who wants to move in here to be able to gain access. I said we should take a pause on these Syrian migrants. And I believe we should do that.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores.

Poor people! No territory invasion can broaden their narrow minds.