Immigrants Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are waiting for Donald Trump`s big immigration speech. There are lots of unanswered questions that remain about where exactly Trump stands on deportation forces, on what to do with the millions of immigrants who are here illegally now, and where he stands on the question of birthright citizenship.

  Steve Kornacki

  Waiting, Deportation, Immigration

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often leads to scapegoat-ism: blaming outsiders, such as immigrants, or racial and religious minorities. The phenomenon is behind Brexit and the violence in the political cycles in the US and EU.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Religious, Party, Political

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• For instance, in the last five years [till 2016], we've admitted nearly 100,000 immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan. And these two countries according to Pew Research, a majority of residents say that the barbaric practice of honor killings against women are often or sometimes justified. That's what they say.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Years, Practice

  Source: time.com

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• I think Donald Trump will articulate what we do with the people [immigrants] who are here.

  Mike Pence

  Thinking, People, Trump

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• But if we keep denying that there are problems with some male immigrants, then we will just drive the people into the arms of the right-wing populists. Without the ignorance or the trivialization on the part of all the political parties, there would be no Pegida or Alternative for Germany.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Party, Ignorance, Wings

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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