Immigrants Quotes - Page 17

• Look, I'm an immigrant, so I know what it is like to dream about coming to America and then to get here and be able to make your dreams a reality, ... Of course, there are millions of people who want to come here. Let's help them, let's find a legal way t

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Reality, America

  "Schwarzenegger Opposes Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants", www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2005.

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• I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

  Tony Abbott

  Australia, Favour, Notion

  "Tony Abbott on Q and A". www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.

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• You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.

  Stephen Harper

  Ghetto, People, Migrants

  "The Report" Newsmagazine, January 22, 2001.

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• We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

  Enoch Powell

  Mad, Funeral, Growth

  John Enoch Powell, John Wood (1970). “Freedom and reality”, Arlington House Publishers

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• 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.

  Elton Gallegly

  Average, Years, California

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• Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.

  Elton Gallegly

  Moving, School, College

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• Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.

  Elton Gallegly

  People, Office, Criminals

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• Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.

  Elton Gallegly

  Country, Eye, Law

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• Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Competition, Wages, Study

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

  Carl I. Hagen

  Want, Norway, Spain

  Carl I. Hagen's speech at a local Progress Party chapter in Alfaz del Pi, Spain, April 21, 2006.

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

  Marvin Olasky

  Numbers, Knows

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• Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Goal, Royalty, Unconscious

  Vine Deloria,Jr. (1971). “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”

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• 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.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Income, Pay, Study

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• 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.

  Spencer Bachus

  Jobs, Texas, Cities

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• As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Order, Generations, Firsts

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• The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people.

  Richard J. Daley

  Party, People, Political

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• California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States

  Gary Miller

  California, Numbers, United States

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• An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million

  Gary Miller

  United States, Population, Size

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• I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that are using the coyotes to get across the border. And that's not a Democrat or Republican issue, that's a national security issue

  Brad Thor

  Writing, Issues, Important

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

  Nathan Deal

  United States, Birth, Illegal

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

  Howard Dean

  Phrases, Aliens, Illegal

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• 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.

  Daniel Nathans

  Opportunity, Years, Parent

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• Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both, like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications.

  Anne Michaels

  Philosophy, Moving, Sacrifice

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.109, Emblem Editions

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• 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.

  Jeb Bush

  Family Love, Population, Prosperity

  "'Immigrants Are More Fertile,' Jeb Bush Says In Reform Speech". www.npr.org. June 14, 2013.

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• I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

  Bruce Dern

  Travel, People, Lessons

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