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“Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?”
“Immigration detainees are the ghosts of real prisoners, being punished in advance for crimes that will demand a life sentence.”
Source: Magic
“Immigration has been [Donald] Trump`s signature issue throughout his entire presidential campaign, and his supporters love him for it.”
“Immigration has contributed greatly to an environment in which it is obligatory for whites to promote diversity. Almost as an accidental by-product of immigration reform, the United States opened itself to large numbers of non-white newcomers who are now the primary source of diversity. Although immigration is likely to reduce whites to a minority in just a few decades, racial etiquette requires that whites must not think of this as anything but an exciting prospect.
The logic of anti-racism means diversity must be a strength because it would be racist to oppose it. For whites to express doubts about the wisdom of policies that ensure their children will be racial minorities is to open themselves to charges of bigotry. To avoid these charges they must speak with enthusiasm about the diversity immigration brings. Their behavior, however, belies their words; they flee the very diversity they are at such pains to praise.
Non-whites promote diversity because they profit from it. It increases their opportunities at the expense of whites. Celebrations of diversity also flatter them. After all, they are providing what is claimed to be America’s “greatest strength.” There is more than a hint of arrogance in this view—that the United States was lifeless and incomplete before Hispanics or Asians came in large numbers—but it is now common even for immigrants to insist that diversity is central to our identity. Whites have been persuaded to support diversity—even if it restricts opportunities for them and reduces their numbers and influence—because they have been taught that not to support it would be racist. This is truly astonishing: Whites are supporting something that is not only against their own interests but that is manifestly untrue.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.”
“Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.”
Source: A Plea for Eros: Essays
“Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.”
“Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.”
“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.”
“Immigration is a sensitive topic.”
“Immigration is an attempt to
bloom and blossom
and brighten a new place
with the colors and scents
you've brought with you.
It is an attempt to remember
where you are from, and the place that made you,
and also unfurl to the possibilities
of the new place you call home.”
Source: Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice
“Immigration is an issue of global significance in America. And if you look at the terrorist alerts and attacks, Latinos [as a group] are not in the top five list [for] terror alerts.”
“Immigration is an opaque glass box whose front door opens outwards.”
Source: Thirty-Eight Days of Rain: Winner of the 2024 Ink Book Prize for Fiction
“Immigration is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don't have the means to integrate those who are already here. The result is endless cultural conflict.”
“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.”
“Immigration is everyone’s business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate.”
“Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.”
“Immigration is good for the rich because it's cheaper nannies and cheaper chauffeurs and cheaper gardeners but it's bad news for ordinary Britons... It has left the white working class effectively as an underclass, and I think that is a disaster for our society”
“Immigration is learning to stretch
into a bridge,
backward and forward,
one limb in each place,
learning to hold tight to traditions
and customs and names and memories in one hand,
and with the other hand let go and lean in
to a place you hope will see you
for all the beauty that you bring.”
Source: Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice
“Immigration is not a uniquely American problem. Aside from the former Communist countries, nearly every white country has accepted large numbers of immigrants, so there is a huge flow from non-white to white countries. There are two reasons for this. First, whites have built the most successful countries in the history of the world and others want to take part in that success. Second, only white countries permit large-scale immigration; others keep their territories exclusively for their own people.
Different national views on immigration therefore parallel expressions of racial consciousness in the United States. Whites—the only people who dare not express racial pride—let in large numbers of immigrants who are changing their societies. Non-whites, who have a strong sense of racial consciousness, maintain their boundaries.
No non-white nation praises diversity, nor do immigrants come to the West with the intention of sharing this gift with us. Most never heard of diversity before they came here. They come because their countries are unsuccessful. Once they are here, most probably want to live their lives essentially as they did before, but with a First-World rather than Third-World income. They want to keep their languages, religions, folkways, and loyalties rather than shed their foreign skins and become American.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“Immigration is not an issue that I read about in the newspaper or watch a documentary on PBS or CNN. It's an issues I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants.”
“Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.”
“Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.”
“Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.”
“Immigration is part of the reason why our economy is stronger and better positioned than most of our other competitors, is because we've got a younger population that's more dynamic when it comes to trade.”
“Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.”
“Immigration keeps this country young, it keeps it dynamic, we have entrepreneurs and strivers who come here and are willing to take risks, and that's part of the reason why America historically has been successful.”
“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.”
“Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.”
Source: A Nation Of Immigrants
“Immigration reform is important in our country. We have a lot of employers over on the beaches that rely upon workers and especially in this high-growth environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping? We don't need to put those employers in a position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers.”
“Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.”
“Immigration security is national security.”
“Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.”
“Immigration teaches you to bend. Courage is remembering who you are.”
“immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.”
Source: The Immigration Invasion: How Third World Immigration is Destroying the First World -- and what Must be Done to Stop it
“Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit.”
“Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.”
“Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.”
“Immigration, as promoted by the Democrat Party, really is a voter registration drive, pure and simple. It is a desire by the Democrat Party to find another way to remain in perpetual power, by creating as many dependent voters as they can.”
“Immigration, ladies and gentlemen, is not an entitlement. Yet that's how it is treated by the Democrats, by the Drive-By Media. That's how it's considered. It's no different than Medicaid, no different than Medicare, and its purpose is to benefit the victims of the evil United States. That is not what immigration is, but that's what it has become - and as such, common sense about it is totally missed.”
“Immigration. There's two plans on the table. Hillary and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You've got to pick your choice. Hillary and I want a bipartisan reform that will put keeping families together as the top goal, second, that will help focus enforcement efforts on those who are violent, third, that will do more border control, and, fourth, that will provide a path to citizenship for those who work hard, pay taxes, play by the rules, and take criminal background record checks.”
“Immiscible with the Congregation
I am a drop of oil in this bucket of water.
We are immiscible
about the immutability, Infallibility,
and inerrancy of their ideas.
They live in the polarities
of good and bad, heaven and hell,
a god and a devil, Christian and not.
But life is too nuanced, history too complex;
my mind is too neutral to mix.
Are there any more drops of oil in here?
Someone that has actually looked into the water
and can’t be mixed into the multitude?
Each week, the congregation is baptized in the idea that everyone needs an outside entity.
What I need is to know myself.
To be
aware of the arising of the mind.
To notice what is appearing
and to watch it dissipate.
To know
that I am not the trail of thoughts
that I get caught in.
I need to watch thoughts arise,
To let them go,
and to pay attention
to the thread.
What I need is not outside,
but it’s not necessarily inside either;
it is the awareness itself
of what is happening
in both places.
What I need is what is.
That is my salvation. That is what I need.
I am saved with each moment that I am aware.
Amen.”
Source: Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings
“Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
“Immobile, senza respirare, fisso il fantasma che vedo riflesso nel vetro davanti a me”
Source: Bisbigliando - Sussurri di mezzanotte
“Immobility results when people end up trapped by the social circumstances into which they are born: the networks in which they are embedded fail to provide them with the information and opportunities that they need to succeed.”
Source: The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors
“Immobilization: A state, however mild or serious, in which you are not functioning at the level that you would like to. If feelings lead to such a state, you need to look no further for a reason to get rid of them.”
Source: Your erroneous zones
“Immobilized in marriage, since long ago, she was taken as rightful property under wedlock. As a side note, I am urged to comment, the curious nature of these terms property and wed-lock; as if doomed to be firmly kept under latch and key, a padlocked yard? Pastures lain fallow occasionally?”
Source: Lotus-eating Japan: Who is this man I hardly know?
“Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.”
“Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.”