Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.
People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.
Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.
Mouna Khalil: [frustrated with ruthless US immigration system] It's just like Syria.
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.
I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.
It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.
The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.
The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why should women be any different?
Over the course of the millennia, all these multitudes of ancestors, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time—to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will ever be, another like you. You have been given a tremendous ...
Oh.My. Every illegal swear word in the dictionary, God. What is it with older men? don't they ever look in the mirror?
I like cup holders—in cars, as well as in jockstraps. I would have played football, but the only helmet I had belonged to a bicycle that coach said was illegal on the field.
In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.
Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.
States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.
If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.
Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.
