Immigrants Quotes - Page 6

• The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.

  Nathan Deal

  Baby, Years, Immigration

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• Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.

  Michael Foley

  Men, Islands, Two

  Michael Foley (2012). “Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.

  Spencer Bachus

  Law, Enforcement, Littles

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• Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.

  Roger Mahony

  Spiritual, California, One Day

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• Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party. Conservative movement and tea party movement... People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity say you can say ‘Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man!'” Garofalo hypothesized. “Look he’s polling well and won a straw poll!

  Janeane Garofalo

  Stupid, Party, Gay

  "Janeane Garofalo To Keith Olbermann: ‘Herman Cain Hides The Racist Elements Of The Republican Party’" by James Crugnale, www.mediaite.com. September 29, 2011.

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• I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

  Peter Jennings

  Writing, America, Wanted

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• I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

  Ted Cruz

  Children, Taken, Blessing

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• I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

  Lou Barletta

  Kids, Want, Safe

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• The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

  Spencer Bachus

  Jobs, Construction Industry, Growth

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• I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial.

  Muhammad Asad

  Country, Strong, People

  Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.107, The Book Foundation

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• We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

  Ken Calvert

  Government, People, Gone

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• Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family living (at times a little uneasily) the American dream, and even a love story. A great read and a valuable addition to the literature—and I use the word advisedly—of medical training.

  Melvin Konner

  Dream, Doctors, Training

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• My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

  Alexis Denisof

  Mother, New York, Grandfather

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Identity, Narrative, Term

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• I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Years, California, Tasks

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• I'm simply asking that people who arrive from Cuba receive the same treatment as any other immigrant who comes from another country. The only difference, obviously, is that the Cuban Adjustment Act will remain in effect, that a Cuban who arrives today from Cuba may remain in the U.S.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Differences, People

  Source: www.univision.com

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• What does have a chance of becoming law is a process that begins with securing the border. Currently the border is not secure and not just immigrants are coming across, but also drugs, weapons a whole series of problems. And I think that if you can prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control, I think that the American people are willing to do something very reasonable about people who have been here for many years, who are not criminals, who are going to pay a fine, who are going to pay taxes, who are working.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Years, Law

  Source: www.univision.com

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• One limits oneself in this country if you come as a legal immigrant to this country and you choose to only speak your language whether it be Polish or Russian like many of my own relatives who came here if you speak only Russian and Polish you're limiting your opportunities in the United States.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Country, Opportunity, United States

  Source: latinalista.com

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• My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from Panama. He was deeply involved in civil rights causes, which scared my mother - she was also an immigrant, from Barbados, who had her hands full with six kids, and she worried that my father would get deported. But because of his passion for politics and civil rights, we paid close attention to current events. We would watch political conventions together - for fun!

  Gwen Ifill

  Mother, Fun, Father

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• My brother had a mustache, and when my brother had a mustache, it was cool. When I had a mustache, everyone just assumed I'm an immigrant and I don't speak English, which is fascinating. It was a fascinating thing to discover how I looked versus my brother with a mustache.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Brother, Speak English, Mustache

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When better screening certain Muslim immigrants first came up, one of the big defenders was Carl Higbie. He's a former Navy Sean and a [Donald] Trump supporter.

  Megyn Kelly

  Navy, Firsts, Certain

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach who helped write the immigration laws in Arizona said that [Donald] Trump's policy advisors are drafting, they're discussing drafting a proposal, to reinstate a registry for immigrants from Muslim countries.

  Megyn Kelly

  Country, Writing, Law

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Who in their right mind ever thought that the birth of a child to an illegal immigrant converted to citizenship? A lot of people believe it. It's not in the 14th Amendment. You know where it is? It's in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, Believe, People

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• I certainly think one of the really amazing things about Mr. Trump's victory is there's been an immediate - what one of my friends calls a jump-to-the-Trump in Australia. So you've got politicians of all sides looking at this amazing result in America and thinking, I'd like a bit of that. Can I have a bit of that? And so the opposition leader has been talking about immigrants stealing people's jobs. The prime minister has started talking about media elites in exactly the same terms as President-elect Trump.

  Richard Glover

  Jobs, Laughter, Thinking

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Australian Radio Host Richard Glover". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. November 26, 2016.

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• America was built on immigrants, and what they bring 'to the table.'

  Robert Irvine

  America, Tables, Built

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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