Immigrants Quotes - Page 2

• You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better life for them and their children. And, in the main, they succeeded. It is hard to find any century in history, in which so large a number of people experience so great an improvement in the conditions of their life, in the opportunities open to them, as in the period of the 19th and early 20th century.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Children, Opportunity

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• There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law was passed. Before that, there was an Oriental Exclusion Act, but other than that, European immigrants like my parents were generally admitted in the early years of the twentieth century. But that ended in 1924 with an immigration law that was largely directed against Jews and Italians.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Years, Law

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• You have almost zero chance of being killed by a refugee in America. You have almost no chance of being killed in a terrorist attack by an immigrant - by any kind of immigrant, let alone an Islamic immigrant.

  Reza Aslan

  Zero, Islamic, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, Country, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.373, Cosimo, Inc.

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• They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Country, Chance, Decided

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• While there are many illegal immigrants in America who are good people, many, many, this doesn't change the fact that most illegal immigrants are lower skilled workers with less education, who compete directly against vulnerable American workers, and that these illegal workers draw much more out from the system than they can ever possibly pay back.

  Donald Trump

  America, People, Pay

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The Supreme Court has only granted citizenship to the children born to legal immigrants, not illegal.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, Citizenship, Granted

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• Finally Irish were accepted into society and became part of the political system, and there were Kennedys, and so on. But the same is true about other waves of immigrants, like the Jews in the 1950s.

  Noam Chomsky

  Political, Wave, Accepted

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. And were not a party of anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite. Were a party that welcomes people.

  George W. Bush

  Party, Humor, Opposites

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• People that have died 10 years ago are still voting, illegal immigrants are voting.

  Donald Trump

  Years, People, Voting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Every wave of immigrants who came [to America] were treated pretty badly, but when they all finally became integrated, all of us became Anglo-Saxons.

  Noam Chomsky

  America, Wave, Integrated

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic.

  Andrew Lam

  Country, Atmosphere, Toxic

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• [We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

  Donald Trump

  Self, Needs, Select

  Source: time.com

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• Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate relative, but are part of extended families. The nepotistic U.S. policy lets in relatives then lets in the relatives' relatives, and so on, creating an endless and ever growing chain of new immigrants.

  Ronald Reagan

  Creating, People, Immigration

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• Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

  Marco Rubio

  Immigration, Legal Immigration

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• Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Opportunity, Journey

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

  Gloria Estefan

  Kids, Self, Perspective

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• One of the defining characteristics or difference between today's illegal immigration and the immigration of old is the immigrants of the late 1800s through the early 1920s came here desiring to become Americans. They wanted to become part of what was a unique and distinct American culture. They were all coming from tyranny of one kind or another.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Unique, Differences, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Immigration law's already settled. That's why we have people known as illegal immigrants, because the law is very clear. They're not being called illegal immigrants because people are biased and prejudiced.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, People, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.

  Tania Bruguera

  Political, Firsts

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• While there are many illegal immigrants in our country who are good people, many, many, this doesn't change the fact that most illegal immigrants are lower skilled workers with less education, who compete directly against vulnerable American workers, and that these illegal workers draw much more out from the system than they can ever possibly pay back.

  Donald Trump

  Country, People, Pay

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech" by Travis Dove, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Canada has an immigration policy you might want to emulate. They want more skilled and educated immigrants. In fact, that's all they take. But, see, since nobody's watching them, and they're not a superpower, nobody really cares. So they are allowed to act in their best interests.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Immigration, Care, Want

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• I lived in a suitcase for a year, and then a relationship brought me to New York for about four months, then I lived in Melbourne. Then I moved back to Gothenburg because the immigrant laws are strict for both Australia and the U.S., and I would have to marry someone to get into those countries. But I wouldn't really be able to get involved in a sham marriage without being able to tell anyone about it.

  Jens Lekman

  Country, New York, Australia

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community

  Pope Francis

  Community, Important, Church

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• If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Mohammed should get the job.

  Mona Sahlin

  Jobs, Two, Workplace

  Interview with the Swedish newspaper Göteborgs-Posten, October 22, 2000.

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