The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.
China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.
How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for pro...
A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscap...
Standard: Do you want to hear how mommy and me met? Benicio: Yeah. Standard: Yeah? Okay. We were at a party. And she was nineteen years old. Irene: Seventeen. Standard: You weren't seventeen. Irene: I was. Standard: Wow. So it was illegal. [laughs] S...
Billy Hayes: What is a crime? What is punishment? It seems to vary from time to time and place to place. What's legal today is suddenly illegal tomorrow because society says it's so, and what's illegal yesterday is suddenly legal because everybody's ...
In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.
I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
American literature has always been immigrant.
We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.
I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.
Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.
Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.
I'm a different immigrant. My life is so lucky compared to so many.
I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.
We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.
Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.
I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.
