Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes About Immigration

Quotes about: Immigration

• America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  White, America, Black

• Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our country to recognize it.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Country, Character, Waiting

• Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also for undocumented workers of all ages and backgrounds who contribute to our economic security and prosperity.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  People, Waiting, Dreamer

• The immigration bill is going to pass. We're going to have a bill. It's going to get through the Senate. I think the fundamentals are there and the foundation is strong and the bill is going to happen. The House is going to be trickier, but I think it's going to happen there too.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Strong, Thinking, House

• Giving people like me a green card, a passport, and a driver's license? That's not going to be the end of the immigration conversation and debate in this country. It's like saying we elected Barack Obama president, so all of the racial problems are done. Right? I mean in some ways, the immigration conversation is just starting. Which is why when we started this campaign, we didn't call it Define Immigrant, we called it Define American. That's the question. That's what's at stake.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Country, Mean, Giving

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Thinking, Immigration, Illegal

  "Jose Antonio Vargas: Why I made 'Documented'" by Jose Antonio Vargas, www.cnn.com. March 13, 2014.

• I feel like people expect me to give them easy answers, but there aren't really easy answers. There are only harder questions. And unless we get to the harder questions part, about what this conversation is really about...of course I want an immigration bill to pass. I want people to have a driver's license and work permits and green cards and passports. But this conversation transcends this bill. We're not going to have a perfect bill. This is politics. I feel like my job is instead of giving people easy answers, my job is to actually to ask people to probe deeper.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Giving, Perfect, People

• Independent of politics, the changing narrative on immigration is directly correlated to the fact that we have new technologies that are allowing people to talk to each other and tell their own stories and organize themselves.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Independent, Technology, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There isn't anybody I won't talk to about immigration - at least once.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Immigration

• A broken immigration system means broken families means broken lives. That's what is at stake.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Mean, Broken, Immigration

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Immigration is by far the most controversial yet least understood issue in America. Frankly, given the way we're talking about immigration, given the emphasis, the overemphasis on border security, I would argue that we're not on the same page when we debate this issue. We're doing far too much debating and not enough conversing.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Immigration, Arguing, Debate

• If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them what immigration is really about - that this is not about me, this is not about us, this is not about us taking something from you. This is not about us being a threat to you. This is not about Democrat or Republican, and this is not really about border security. But in some ways our politics, and in many ways our politicians, have gotten in the way.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  People, Immigration, Republican

• Like other undocumented people in this country, I want a green card, and I want a driver's license, and I want a passport. What, to me, is the immigration bill? It's a green card, a driver's license, and a passport. That's what it's about to me, tangibly. That I could see my mom. That I could drive. Is there anything more American than driving? That I could get a green card and be able to - right now, I'm just like freelancing and working as an independent contractor. It's hilarious. I'm unhirable.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Mom, Country, Independent

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