Immigrants Quotes - Page 5

• All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

  Daniel Pipes

  Attitude, Exotic, Troublesome

  "The Muslims are Coming! The Muslims are Coming!" by Daniel Pipes, www.danielpipes.org. November 19, 1990.

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• Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1.44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state.

  Carole Keeton

  Law, Government, Care

  "Imagine a day without a Mexican" by Charles Garcia, www.cnn.com. March 3, 2012.

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• Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world.

  Fred Thompson

  Children, Suicidal, Men

  "'New Reagan' ready for star role" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2007.

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• Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Education, Opportunity, Choices

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'The Great American Experiment'". Interview With Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.ff.org. January 6, 2013.

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• All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against the next boatload approaching the shore. To defend one’s home and fields and ancestral graves against invasion seems a right. But to claim unique possession – to compound the fact of settlement with the aspect of a landscape into an abstract of eternal and immutable ownership – is a joke.

  Neal Ascherson

  Home, Unique, Population

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• We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

  Theresa May

  Cat, Rights, Pet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

  Roger Mahony

  Broken, Abuse, Church

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• I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

  Sidney Altman

  Son, Poor, Montreal

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

  Phillip Lim

  Growing Up, Thinking, California

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• First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents' approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining and asserting their individuality, but a way to create community and harmony by deferring to the choices of people whom they trusted and respected.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The art of choosing". TED conference, www.ted.com. July, 2010.

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• Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language

  Marc Prensky

  Struggle, Age, Digital

  Marc Prensky (2012). “From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning”, p.69, Corwin Press

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• Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

  Sarah

  Voting, Borders, Politician

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• America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.

  James Frey

  Religious, Order, Practice

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

  Melanie Fiona

  Cities, Parent, Toronto

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• Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Jobs, Hardest Job, Generations

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• It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Real, America, Littles

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• I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

  John Barrasso

  Country, Children, Important

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• The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people we admit) and immigrant policy (how we treat people who are already here). What our nation needs is a pro-immigrant policy of low immigration. A pro-immigrant policy of low immigration can reconcile America's traditional welcome for newcomers with the troubling consequences of today's mass immigration. It would enable us to be faithful and wise stewards of America's interests while also showing immigrants the respect they deserve as future Americans.

  Tom Tancredo

  Wise, Two, America

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• We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.

  Raul Grijalva

  Country, Creating, Issues

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• Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Law, Immigration, Scams

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• I think we've learned that the S.B.A. plays a critical role in providing access and opportunity when the market is not providing that access. We help banks get that money out into the hands of important and viable businesses, particularly those owned by minorities, women, immigrants and veterans.

  Karen Mills

  Opportunity, Thinking, Hands

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• A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

  Deborah Kass

  Odds, America, Broadway

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• My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.

  Stana Katic

  Thinking, House, Parent

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• My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations.

  Stana Katic

  Two, People, Parent

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• I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Girl, Couple, Generations

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