“I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.” ThinkingAmericaDifficultWonderfulImmigrationDifficult ThingsWonderful PlacesComing To America Author:Akhil
“[Donald] Trump is touching a nerve because people want the wall to be built. They want to see an end to illegal immigration. They want to see it, and we all do. But we all have different ways of getting there.” PeopleWayWantDifferentEndsWallTrumpBuiltImmigrationDifferent WaysIllegalNervesTouchingIllegal Immigration Author:John Kasich
“This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States, and people feel like we're being taken advantage of.” PeopleWorldFeelsYearsCountryStatesUnitedMillionsUnited StatesTakenAdvantageImmigrationGenerousTaken Advantage Author:Marco Rubio
“I believe we're at the verge of the greatest time to be alive in this world. But Washington is holding us back. How we tax, how we regulate. We're not embracing the energy revolution in our midst, a broken immigration system that has been politicized rather than turning it into an economic driver. We're not protecting and preserving our entitlement system or reforming for the next generation. All these things languish while we have politicians in Washington using these as wedge issues.” WorldBelieveHas BeensNextEnergyI BelieveIssuesAliveGenerationsEconomicThis WorldBrokenRevolutionPoliticianTaxesImmigrationMidstDriversNext GenerationEntitlementVergeWedgesLanguish Author:Jeb Bush
“Even if we didn't have a single person in the USA in violation of immigration laws, we'd still have to do immigration reform, because our legal immigration system is broken. It's not good for anybody.” IfsPersonsStillsLawBrokenImmigrationReformUsaViolationSingle PersonImmigration ReformImmigration LawsLegal Immigration Author:Marco Rubio
“The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration [in the USA] today are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes.” PeopleHumansPurposeHuman BeingsLaborImmigrationBordersUsaIllegalStatus QuoHiringTrafficking Author:Marco Rubio
“I think the immigration system we have now is terrible for the United States of America. We have a legal immigration system that does not work. It does not reflect the economic needs of this country in the 21st century. It needs to be modernized.” ThinkingNeedsDoeCountryStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesEconomicCenturyTerribleImmigrationWorking ItUnited States Of America21st CenturyLegal Immigration Author:Marco Rubio
“A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.” BigsCommonPositionRepublicanCoreImmigrationCommon Core Author:Jeb Bush
“There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.” PeopleThinkingInterestingIssuesDangerSolutionsPrejudiceImmigrationOur TimeFear Of The Unknown Author:Mario Vargas Llosa
“Trump's immigration positions do not deserve a response because they are so outlandish. If you force me to give you three words to describe them they would be: ludicrous, impractical and racist.” IfsGivingWould BeThreeForcePositionTrumpDeserveResponseImmigrationRacistThree WordsOutlandish Author:Bill Richardson
“The immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed. And it needs to be fixed comprehensively, because this country depends on immigrant workers, but we don't have a system that reflects that. Our system is absolutely antiquated.” NeedsCountryBrokenDependsWorkersImmigrationFixedImmigrantsImmigrant Workers Author:Pramila Jayapal
“Part of comprehensive immigration reform is not just the path to citizenship for undocumented workers, but also the ability for families to be together.” TogetherAbilityPathWorkersImmigrationReformCitizenshipComprehensiveImmigration ReformUndocumented Workers Author:Pramila Jayapal
“Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury.” StoriesProcessPovertyMillionsSeaMiseryFinancialImmigrationAttractiveGiantsContradictionFrustrationFuryTransformingTouristsIstanbulSad StoryAnger Frustration Author:Orhan Pamuk
“Instead of focusing on what the law says about trans people, which is really what the law is saying about itself as a protector of trans people, we should be focused on what systems of law and administration do to trans people and our interventions should aim to dismantle harmful, violent systems such as criminal punishment and immigration enforcement.” PeopleShouldLawAimFocusedCriminalsPunishmentViolentImmigrationAdministrationEnforcementInterventionTransProtector Author:Dean Spade
“When we approach legal reform work, we can ask questions like: Will this provide actual relief to people facing violence or harm or will it primarily be a symbolic change? Will this divide our constituency by offering relief only to people with certain privileged statuses (such as people with lawful immigration status, people with jobs, married people, etc.)?” PeopleJobsCertainAsksViolenceApproachMarriedHarmImmigrationReformReliefEtcDividesOfferingPrivilegedSymbolic Author:Dean Spade
“Military inclusion has never been a central demand from trans populations, who consistently name criminalization, immigration enforcement, poverty and joblessness as top priorities.” NamesPovertyMilitaryDemandPopulationPrioritiesImmigrationInclusionConsistentlyEnforcementJoblessnessTransTop Priorities Author:Dean Spade
“The three-breasted woman was very much at the top of my list in [original 'Total recall']. Like I said, I was fourteen! I remember Arnold [Schwarzenegger] pulling that big tracker out of his nose and freaking out about that. I remember going through the immigration booth where their face splits open with that heavyset redheaded lady. So there were a lot of these little moments that I remember.” LittlesSaidMomentsBigsRememberFacesThreeOriginalsListsImmigrationNosesSplitsRecallsPullingFourteenSchwarzeneggerFreaking OutLittle MomentsTotal Recall Author:Len Wiseman
“I would have to say all of the civil rights acts, because there were three, and even, say, the Immigration Act, which I think also is a civil rights act, maybe on a global perspective, that he cared very, very much about it.” ThinkingThreeRightsPerspectiveImmigrationCivil RightsCivil Rights Act Author:Lynda Bird Johnson Robb
“We ought to increase legal immigration for our country's advantage. The high-tech world we are now dominating is dependent on educated folks, but we're short...of workers. It is to our nation's advantage to encourage high-powered, smart people to come into our country.” PeopleWorldCountryNationsOughtSmartAdvantageIncreaseWorkersFolksImmigrationEducatedOur CountryDependentSmart PeopleDominatingLegal Immigration Author:George H. W. Bush
“At the front end, to stop people from illegally entering our country, not at the back end, by reimbursing states after it has failed to enforce the border. [I] would allocate additional resources to enforcing the border, so states such as Texas and California would not have the huge expenses they currently do.” PeopleEndsCountryStatesFrontsHugeResourcesImmigrationOur CountryCaliforniaBordersExpensesTexasEntering Author:George H. W. Bush
“I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans - you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.” KnowsKindCountryStatesAmericaAsksUnitedUnited StatesFansHugeConstitutionIndependenceNotesImmigrationAll KindsAnnoyingDeclarationBathroomCdsDeclaration Of IndependenceConstitution Of The United States Author:Edward de Bono
“In 2006, the Secure Fence Act was signed into law, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build upward of 700 miles of double layered fencing along the U. S-Mexico border. While the Obama administration is quick to state that the targets have been met, only a small fraction - in fact, less than 40 miles - of the newly implemented infrastructure is double-layered.” Has BeensStatesFactsLawSecurityMetsMilesImmigrationSecureAdministrationBordersDepartmentTargetMexicoFenceInfrastructureHomelandFractionsIllegal ImmigrationHomeland SecurityFencingDepartment Of Homeland Security Author:Duncan Hunter
“God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia over Muslim immigration or the practice of veiling. The New Atheists became the new Islamophobes, their invectives against Muslims resembling the rowdy, uneducated ramblings of backwoods racists rather than appraisals based on intellect, rationality and reason. "Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death.” HumansReasonHuman BeingsExistencePracticeConversationIslamAtheistIntellectPracticalsImmigrationRacistAfterlifeCultRationalityImpossibilityXenophobiaUneducatedIrrationalityAppraisalRamblingGod Is GreatRowdyBackwoods Author:Sam Harris
“Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare.” StatesIndividualSocialEasyPayGraceSecurityNeededPeriodsTaxesImmigrationIncomeCardsReformWelfarePermitSocial SecurityIncome TaxMedicareImmigration Reform Author:Gary Johnson
“Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.” ShouldEasyGood ThingsImmigration Author:Gary Johnson
“If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.” IfsShouldBelieveLawValuesPolicyCurrentsImmigrationImmigration Laws Author:John Linder
“Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.” WorldMadeStatesHomeCommunityUnitedUnited StatesCenturyPopulationImmigrationDestroyedGenocideHolocaust20th CenturyMigrationJewish Community Author:Jon Porter
“Next, we will create a modern immigration law.” LawNextModernImmigrationIdolatryImmigration Laws Author:Gerhard Schroder
“The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.” DoeCountryProcessPolicyDiversityProgramMovedCurrentsImmigrationTraditionalImmigrantsVisaDisserviceImmigration Policy Author:Bill Jenkins
“Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.” HardShowsLinesImmigrationShoreMexicoVisitors Author:John Linder
“We for sure need to secure the border. I think we need to enforce the legal system. I'm not for amnesty, I'm not an advocate of the plans that have been pushed here in Washington... we need to find a way for people to have a legitimate legal immigration system in this country, and that doesn't mean amnesty.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsMeanHas BeensCountryPlansImmigrationSecureBordersLegal SystemAmnestyLegal Immigration Author:Scott Walker
“I was taken off from plane and interrogated by U.S. Immigration in Canada on my views on drones. My stance is known. Drone attacks must stop.” ViewsKnownTakenImmigrationPlanesCanadaStanceDrones Author:Imran Khan
“The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.” WantCountryGivenGrowsShareIdentityImmigrationTrendsDiverseMulticultural Author:Tom Gjelten
“Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and 'ally-ally-in-free' immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms with it.” WarLosesTerrorismImmigrationBordersAbandonAlliesWar On TerrorUtopianWar On TerrorismGlobalism Author:Pat Buchanan
“It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.” NeedsSeemsAmericaHateImmigrationNativeImmigrantsCherishNative American Author:Eric Hoffer
“There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” PeopleMenLanguageRoomsLoyaltyImmigrationImmigrantsIllegalDividedFlagsSolePatriotUnited States Of AmericaEnglish LanguageAllegianceMigrantsIllegal ImmigrantsIllegal ImmigrationGood FaithAmerican FlagAmerican PatriotismAmerican PatriotAmericanismIllegal AliensUsa PatrioticInspirational PatrioticLegal Immigration Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim Crow, the Whitopia has a different flavor.” StillsDifferentSocialIssuesTearsSlaveryWestComplicatedImmigrationDominantFlavorTrailsCrowCountyPioneersGeorgiaJim Crow Author:Richard Benjamin
“If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me the new script on race and poverty as they did.” IfsHeartHas BeensBookAmericaBornViewsRaceTalkingPovertyWrittenJourneyTaxesComfortableScriptsImmigrationImmigrantsLatino Author:Richard Benjamin
“Mother Earth is in pain and ailing - bglobal warming. The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty. When I was born, there were 2.5 billion people living on the whole planet. Now there are 2.5 billion people living on less than $2 a day. That's the kind of reality we have to deal with.” PeopleWorldKindWholeRealityEarthPainMotherBornDealsPovertyIssuesPlanetsBillionsImmigrationGlobal WarmingLiving OnMother Earth Author:Danny Glover
“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.” WayKindStoriesMetaphorImmigrationDesertBiblicalTestamentOld TestamentMigrationPilgrimage Author:Ruben Martinez
“An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the entire family migrate together, or allowing a caregiver to travel back and forth across the border, it should make it easier for workers to be with their families instead of harder.” ShouldMeanTogetherPolicyEasierEssentialsHarderWorkersImmigrationBordersAllowingHumaneCriteriaBack And ForthCaregiversImmigration PolicyMigrate Author:Jody Heymann
“Already were seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.” CountryHomePastCompanySeeingHigherBuiltImmigrationReformGraduatesForeignersContributingHigher EducationImmigration ReformHome CountryNew Company Author:David Malpass
“Donald Trump unveiled his immigration policy and now he's getting a lot of flak. His policy would have prevented his own grandfather from coming to America. That explains his new campaign slogan: 'Vote Trump to prevent another Trump.'” AmericaPolicyTrumpVoteCampaignsImmigrationGrandfatherSlogansImmigration PolicyComing To America Author:Conan O'Brien
“There is a common perception that there are two alternative libertarian positions on immigration: government-controlled borders and open borders. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is only one libertarian position on immigration, and that position is open immigration or open borders.” TwoGovernmentCommonPositionPerceptionLibertarianImmigrationAlternativesBordersControlled Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.” LongThreeCompanyLawyerImmigrationThings To DoImmigrantsSpokesChecklists Author:Ruchi Sanghvi
“The U.S. was the immigration country of choice even for alien jellyfish things that turned humans into scary monsters. It made you proud, really.” HumansMadeCountryChoicesProudScaryMonstersImmigrationAliensJellyfish Book:Alien in the Family Source: Alien in the Family
“My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.” MenUseOpinionParticularEncouragementProfessionImmigrationDescriptionMechanic Author:George Washington
“If economy were good, there'd be no immigration problem.” IfsProblemEconomyImmigration Author:Ron Paul
“[on compromise immigration bill] This is fundamentally flawed in its current form, and I would oppose it. We need bipartisanship, but we also need legislation that is compassionate. I’m not sure this is.” TearsBillsImmigrationCompromise Author:Bill Richardson