Immigration Quotes - Page 34

• Military inclusion has never been a central demand from trans populations, who consistently name criminalization, immigration enforcement, poverty and joblessness as top priorities.

  Dean Spade

  Military, Names, Priorities

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, while proponents of immigration reform say the Florida Republican was quick to retreat when the going got tough.

  Donald Trump

  Florida, Reform, Amnesty

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The three-breasted woman was very much at the top of my list in [original 'Total recall']. Like I said, I was fourteen! I remember Arnold [Schwarzenegger] pulling that big tracker out of his nose and freaking out about that. I remember going through the immigration booth where their face splits open with that heavyset redheaded lady. So there were a lot of these little moments that I remember.

  Len Wiseman

  Three, Noses, Splits

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• I would have to say all of the civil rights acts, because there were three, and even, say, the Immigration Act, which I think also is a civil rights act, maybe on a global perspective, that he cared very, very much about it.

  Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

  Thinking, Rights, Perspective

  "How the Civil Rights Act pioneered anti-discrimination laws in America". “PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 10, 2014.

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• We ought to increase legal immigration for our country's advantage. The high-tech world we are now dominating is dependent on educated folks, but we're short...of workers. It is to our nation's advantage to encourage high-powered, smart people to come into our country.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Smart, People

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• At the front end, to stop people from illegally entering our country, not at the back end, by reimbursing states after it has failed to enforce the border. [I] would allocate additional resources to enforcing the border, so states such as Texas and California would not have the huge expenses they currently do.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Texas, California

  "Bush Says He Misunderstood Illegal-Immigration Question / He didn't mean states should pay all costs" by Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. September 9, 1999.

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• I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans - you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.

  Edward de Bono

  Country, Cds, America

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• In 2006, the Secure Fence Act was signed into law, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build upward of 700 miles of double layered fencing along the U. S-Mexico border. While the Obama administration is quick to state that the targets have been met, only a small fraction - in fact, less than 40 miles - of the newly implemented infrastructure is double-layered.

  Duncan Hunter

  Law, Borders, Target

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• God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia over Muslim immigration or the practice of veiling. The New Atheists became the new Islamophobes, their invectives against Muslims resembling the rowdy, uneducated ramblings of backwoods racists rather than appraisals based on intellect, rationality and reason. "Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Xenophobia, Practice

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• Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare.

  Gary Johnson

  Grace, Cards, Pay

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• Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

  Gary Johnson

  Easy, Good Things, Should

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• If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

  John Linder

  Believe, Law, Should

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• Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.

  Jon Porter

  Home, Holocaust, Community

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• Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Law, Next, Modern

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• The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.

  Bill Jenkins

  Country, Diversity, Doe

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• Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.

  John Linder

  Mexico, Lines, Visitors

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• We for sure need to secure the border. I think we need to enforce the legal system. I'm not for amnesty, I'm not an advocate of the plans that have been pushed here in Washington... we need to find a way for people to have a legitimate legal immigration system in this country, and that doesn't mean amnesty.

  Scott Walker

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• I was taken off from plane and interrogated by U.S. Immigration in Canada on my views on drones. My stance is known. Drone attacks must stop.

  Imran Khan

  Taken, Views, Drones

  Imran Khan @ImranKhanPTI, twitter.com. October 26, 2012.

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• The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.

  Tom Gjelten

  Country, Identity, Trends

  "Devout Muslim Preaches His Love For America". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. October 6, 2015.

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• Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and 'ally-ally-in-free' immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms with it.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Allies, Borders

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• In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim Crow, the Whitopia has a different flavor.

  Richard Benjamin

  Issues, Crow, Tears

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me the new script on race and poverty as they did.

  Richard Benjamin

  Book, Heart, Journey

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• Mother Earth is in pain and ailing - bglobal warming. The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty. When I was born, there were 2.5 billion people living on the whole planet. Now there are 2.5 billion people living on less than $2 a day. That's the kind of reality we have to deal with.

  Danny Glover

  Mother, Pain, Reality

  "Black power mixtpe co-producer Danny Glover opens up". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.pbs.org. February 7, 2012.

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• Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.

  Ruben Martinez

  Biblical, Desert, Stories

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the entire family migrate together, or allowing a caregiver to travel back and forth across the border, it should make it easier for workers to be with their families instead of harder.

  Jody Heymann

  Mean, Together, Essentials

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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