“Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.” PeopleIfsChildrenCareKidsTurnsReadingSoundLinesTalkingListeningBenefitsAdultsExtrasImmigrantsVolumeDeafTurn Off Author:F. Paul Wilson
“Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.” YearsLanguageMillionsCostBenefitsDollarsImmigrantsMultipleDiscouragingPrintingIntegratingBallotsAmerican Society Author:Ernest Istook
“Cubans who arrive and can prove that they are refugees who are truly fleeing political persecution will continue to qualify as refugees. The only thing that I've asked for is to do away with automatic benefits granted to someone, basically, Cubans who come from Cuba, if it cannot be verified that they are refugees fleeing political persecution, so they will be treated the same way as any other immigrant who arrives in the United States, which is that legal immigrants in the United States don't have the right to any federal benefits for five years.” IfsWayYearsStatesPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesFiveProveBenefitsTreatedGrantedFive YearsImmigrantsPersecutionRefugeeCubaCubanFleeing Author:Marco Rubio
“Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it's getting worse.” SocialStreetsCrimeBenefitsWesternKillingExceptionImmigrantsStatisticsHonourDependencyMutilationBurqaHeadscarves Author:Geert Wilders
“Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating moral critiques of American excesses, and so on, and also a communal role, in terms of building community as the country moved westward to the role my own Catholic Church played in assimilating generations of immigrants.” YearsCountryTermCommunityChurchMy OwnMoralChristianityRolesClearGenerationsBuildingBenefitsCatholicMovedImmigrantsExcessSecularCatholic ChurchCritiqueAmerican LifePropheticBuilding Community Author:Ross Douthat
“In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit and close family ties. They place a high value on education. And they are eager to achieve the American Dream. ... It's to our benefit to keep our doors open, and to keep enriching our economy and culture. I'd like to see America continue to do so.” IdeasDifferentDreamTodayAmericaSpiritValuesCultureNationsViewsEconomyDoorsAchieveBenefitsImmigrationTiesImmigrantsAmerican DreamNew IdeasEntrepreneurialEnrichingFamily TiesEntrepreneurial SpiritClose Family Author:Dick Armey
“Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare.” NeedsGivingFirstsStatesJobsLawFourPolicyBenefitsAreasThirdsCriminalsImmigrationAliensWelfareBordersImmigrantsIllegalFourthWorkplaceAssistancePublic ServiceStrengtheningIllegal ImmigrantsIllegal AliensImmigration PolicyAmerican JobsBorder Control Author:William J. Clinton
“All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.” CountryStatesUseMightJobsNumbersRecordsCitizensBenefitsMovedBurdenCriminalsImmigrationOur CountrySecureAliensAdministrationWelfareBordersImmigrantsIllegalAffectedEnteringTaxpayersDisturbedPublic ServiceHiringLarge NumbersIllegal Aliens Author:William J. Clinton
“One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.” ClearOne ThingBenefitsImmigrationImmigrantsIllegalEntitledIllegal Immigrants Author:Barbara Jordan
“If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What you need to do is attack their benefits: no free education, no free subsidies, no citizenship, no birth-right citizenship.” IfsNeedsFeelsCareLibertyBenefitsComfortableBlameImmigrationImmigrantsIllegalCitizenshipCautiousBirthrightIllegal ImmigrantsSubsidiesBe CautiousIf You CarePersonal LibertyFree Education Author:Ron Paul