“We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful... The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one” PeopleYearsFirstsWellsLooksStatesDreamCareAmericaPurposeHouseLanguageProcessLinesUnitedUnited StatesEconomicLandStrangeReturnHigherComfortMeetingsPainfulImmigrationObligationWell BeingCustomsPurpose Of LifeEnginesFulfillingPersuasionArrivalsEconomic SystemsYears Of LifeHigher PurposeNew Arrivals Author:John Lachs
“The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.” WorldShouldSpeakRaceLandOceanRegardImmigrationFormerOur WorldSailHostileIntercourseBoundlessAboriginal Book:Germania by Tacitus Source: Germania by Tacitus
“Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land.” LooksEyeFacesThreeBlackRaceFourLandThousandShapesConsequenceCaughtPossessionImmigrationIndianBritainNativeAsiaDisputesEnglishmenFace To FaceHeadlinesNative LandBlack Power Author:Enoch Powell
“When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that.” ThinkingWorldWantStillsAmericaEnergyCompanyLandPromiseInnovationFolksImmigrationAround The WorldGoogle Author:Barack Obama
“Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.” PeopleAbilityCreativeLandCapacityImmigrationAbsorptionYardsticks Author:David Ben-Gurion
“There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America.” FirstsReasonAmericaPlansLandSecurityStartingImmigrationBordersImmigrantsCompellingAssimilationBorder SecurityCompelling Reason Author:Niger Innis
“He (Pres. Bush) rightly decided that it was far better to return all Haitians than to encourage, deliberately or not, tens of thousands of people to take to the open ocean in unseaworthy, overcrowded boats.... When the Haitians sense the door has been cracked open, they will once again prepare their rag-tag armada and set sail for the land of plenty - America.” PeopleHas BeensAmericaDoorsLandReturnOceanDecidedImmigrationBoatPlentySailCrackedRagsTag Author:Robert Byrd
“You go to a lot of small communities in rural Alberta and you'll find a degree of diversity that probably hasn't existed in terms of immigration for a century - you'll find the Filipino grocery store, and the African Pentecostal church and maybe a mosque. Albertans are pro-immigration; they're also pro-integration. In my years in this province I cannot recall more than a handful of expressions of xenophobia or nativism that I've encountered. It's the land of new beginnings and fresh starts - it is rare Albertans who trace their roots here back more than a generation or two.” YearsTwoTermCommunityChurchGenerationsLandCenturyExpressionDegreesDiversityRootsStoresImmigrationRecallsIntegrationNew BeginningsHandfulGroceriesProvincesXenophobiaFresh StartGrocery StoresMosquesFilipinoSmall CommunitiesAlbertaPentecostal Author:Jason Kenney