Immigrants Quotes - Page 22

• President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Country, Offering, President

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• 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.

  James Surowiecki

  Doors, Tough Times, Recipes

  "The Track-Star Economy". www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2012.

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• If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.

  Jesse Ventura

  People, Immigration, Want

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• If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry that provides job opportunities and educational opportunities for black people, then if the black man, the black leadership, who has access to all of this money and has all of these degrees today, can't use his talent and his know-how to set up business opportunities, job opportunities, housing opportunities for the black people the same as the white leaders have done for white people, then these black leaders need to get off the boat.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Educational, Opportunity

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• The Declaration of Independence was only partially applied for women and for certain immigrants such as the Chinese. And it wasn't applied to get rid of corporate welfare and cronyism. People who had special connections got special deals from the beginning. So all of those violations of what the Declaration of Independence expressed, have led to the problems we have today. So, the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons for seven generations, or much longer. Forever.

  Charles Koch

  Father, Son, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I always had a hard time with Nashville. I reluctantly live there. I've mellowed, and it's improved some, in the fact it has more immigrants. There's some real Mexicans there, some folks from India, some of this and that. I'm not satisfied at all with living there. It's a dilemma for me.

  Steve Young

  Real, Hard Times, Nashville

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Do you realize what's been done to this whole definition of immigrants? The way Democrats and the left talk about immigration, immigration is anybody who wants to come to the country. And so if you're opposed to anybody coming in, then you're anti-immigrant.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Immigration, Done

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We are saving American lives every single day. The court system has not made it easy for us. We've even created a new office in Homeland Security dedicated to the forgotten American victims of illegal immigrant violence, of which there are many.

  Donald Trump

  Office, Saving, Violence

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I [read] "The Book of Unknown Americans," which is by a friend of mine, Cristina Henriquez, and is about two Latino, immigrant families who live in Delaware. I'm interested in reading things from different perspectives.

  Laila Lalami

  Book, Reading, Two

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• [Donald Trump] has nothing to show for it but fear in every way. To people who are sick, fear, to people who are immigrants, fear, to people who are concerned about the greed on Wall Street taking us back to where we were.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Wall, People, Sick

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• What has the [Donald] Trump administration done from their inaugural address, where they talked about decay and carnage? They've done nothing except put Wall Street first, make America sick again, instill fear in our immigrant population in our country, and make sure that Russia maintains its grip, its grip on our foreign policy.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Wall, Russia

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I did a lot of crazy gigs man. I hosted a Jack and Jill strip club in Woonsocket Rhode Island which is this tiny depressing fishing town, all Portuguese immigrants and it's just a humorless, dark town.

  Joe Rogan

  Depressing, Crazy, Dark

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• You never know how [Donald Trump] is going to react. When he learned for example that he'd lost the election by about three million votes, his instant reaction was insanity; you know, three to five million illegal immigrants somehow were organized in some incredible fashion to vote.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fashion, Insanity, Example

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• This crazy ban on the seven states, where we can't accept immigrants, almost every analyst points out the obvious: It just increases the threat of terror. It lays the basis for terror. It's just like the atrocities in Abu Ghraib and Bagram and Guantanamo. They're the most fabulous recruiting techniques for Al Qaeda and ISIS.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crazy, Isis, Atrocities

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think half the population supports this ban on these dangerous immigrants who are going to come in and do something, who knows what. And meanwhile the countries that really have been involved in terrorism, they're out. It's kind of like I think it was Oklahoma banning Sharia law.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Thinking, Oklahoma

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It would be great for everyone to grow up like I grew up, where everyone had a job. It would be nice for everybody. I'm the son of a "legal" immigrant. I think it would be nice for everyone to get back to work. Get rid of homelessness. People could work. I think if people give Donald Trump a chance, he'll do great.

  Frank Stallone

  Jobs, Growing Up, Nice

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• 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.

  Donald Trump

  United States, Dollars, Mexico

  "Donald Trump Releases Immigration Reform Plan Designed To Get Americans Back To Work" by Matthew Boyle, www.breitbart.com. August 16, 2015.

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• The left think that America is a special place, but not because of anything the people here did to make it special. It just happens to be. And the people who were here are here simply by winning life's lottery. It's all fate; it's all luck. And if anybody else in the world wants to come to this one special place, then nobody has the right to tell them they can't because we are all immigrants.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Fate, Thinking, Winning

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It seems from Pope Francis, immigrants, anybody who doesn't live here in America, has an automatic right to come here just because there's no other place like it on earth. And what is never discussed is how it got so special. How did it happen? Why is it so prosperous? Why is it so free?

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Special, Earth

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The law exists for lots of reasons. In the case of migration, the law exists to maintain the integrity of America. We allow immigrants here, happily so. We don't deny legal immigrants a path to citizenship in this country. But beyond that, since we can't take in everybody, since everybody can't come here, it's physically not possible - well, it is. You know you could put the population of the world inside the state of Texas in 1,500-square-feet homes. I mean, you wouldn't want to, but you could do it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Integrity, Mean

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, America, Immigration

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.

  Sofia Vergara

  America, Hard Life, Heard

  "Sofia Vergara: America Welcomed Me With 'Open Arms and Pulled Down Pants", www.foxnews.com. April 8, 2012.

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• In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Acceptance, Rejection, United States

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn’t have to be another country. It can be the past instead—the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks. This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments. What are the rest of us, after all, but sub-human aborigines?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Lying, Past

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• That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the United States. And there were famous incidents like with the MS Saint Louis, which brought a lot of immigrants, mostly Jewish, from Europe. It reached Cuba, with people expecting to be admitted to the United States from there. But the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt wouldn't allow them in and they had to go back to Europe where many of them died in concentration camps.

  Noam Chomsky

  Europe, People, Fleeing

  Source: thehumanist.com

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