Immigrants Quotes - Page 12

• A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

  John Shadegg

  Home, Mexico, Guests

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• Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Opportunity, America, Community

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

  Jerry Saltz

  Art

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• Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Europe, Survival

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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• I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Night, Want

  "Robert Plant: the showman must go on". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2011.

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• If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

  Christine Pelosi

  Believe, Fighting, Equality For All

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• 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.

  Denis Leary

  Sky, Yellow, Parent

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• Like Israel, New York City's history has been defined by immigrants who come in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life. And like Israel, New York City has remained a target for terrorists who seek to destroy that freedom

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Opportunity, Cities

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• At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.

  Jeff Sessions

  Records, Faces, Immigration

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• I think the real, fundamental problem that the Republicans have is, 'How do we get meaner, how do we get nastier with immigrants, so that we can take a smaller group,' now apparently led by Senator Cruz - I mean, maybe he's gonna be the next Speaker of the House. Because it's quite clear that Mr. Boehner has no control over this conference.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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

  Luis Gutierrez

  Moving, Order, Together

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• Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his iPod full of heavy metal jams and his cute kids. But he's just a fresh face on a Taliban creed - the evermore antediluvian, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay conservative core. Amiable in khakis and polo shirts, Ryan is the perfect modern leader to rally medieval Republicans who believe that Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs.

  Maureen Dowd

  Cute, Believe, Kids

  "Just think No" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available.

  Craig Ferguson

  America, Long, Stories

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• 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.

  Junot Diaz

  Mother, Father, Care

  "Junot Díaz's Pro-Woman Agenda" by Virginia Vitzthum, www.elle.com. September 18, 2012.

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• I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.

  Junot Diaz

  Stories, World, Narrative

  "This Week in Fiction: Junot Diaz" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2012.

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• You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing. 'But what about today? Do you think we should have free immigration?' 'Oh, no,' they'll say, 'We couldn't possibly have free immigration today. Why, that would flood us with immigrants from India, and God knows where. We'd be driven down to a bare subsistence level.'

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Should Have, Soul

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

  Junot Diaz

  Forever

  "It's a scary time for Latin American immigrants, and writer Junot Diaz feels the pressure to help" by Edward Guthmann, www.sfgate.com. April 22, 2006.

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• Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.

  Junot Diaz

  "Pulitzer Prize Winner Junot Diaz Talks Immigration Reform on Colbert Report". www.foxnews.com. March 28, 2013.

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• I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

  Billy Corgan

  Class, My Family, Middle

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Stereo IQ interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

  Gail Collins

  Giving, Criminals, Littles

  "And the G.O.P. Candidates Are…". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 10, 2011.

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• If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The people who came benefited. Because nobody would come unless he, or his family, thought he would do better here than he would elsewhere. And, the new immigrants provided additional resources, provided additional possibilities for the people already here. So everybody can mutually benefit.

  Milton Friedman

  People, Benefits, Way

  "Illegal Immigration: A Feature, Not A Bug, Said Milton Friedman" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits, the revenue from immigrants' payments could reduce taxes. Paying for the right to immigrate would also negate the argument that immigrants get a free ride when they gain health care and other benefits. Moreover, making immigrants pay would attract the type of immigrants who came much earlier in American history: young men and women who are reasonably skilled and want to make a long-term commitment to the United States.

  Gary Becker

  Commitment, Years, Long

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• What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted. We need to be firm but reasonable in the way we deal with the problem of illegal immigration. And we need to try to get as many of our immigrants who want to do so to become citizens as quickly as possible so that the American people will all see that this is a part of the process of American history, which is a good one for our country.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, People, Trying

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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

  Men, Rights, Land

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• Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

  Hugh Jackman

  Government, Years, White

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