Quotes of: Legal-immigration Keyword

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

Spencer Bachus

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

Michael Trevino

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

Ayad Akhtar

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

Camille Paglia

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Jean Rhys

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

Dinaw Mengestu

The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

James Gray

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

Joseph O'Neill

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

Conrad Black

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

Joe Baca

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

Mickey Kaus

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

Luis Gutierrez

The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

Grover Norquist

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker.

Jeb Bush

After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.

Emily Blunt

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

Erich Leinsdorf

As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.

Jose Andres Puerta

We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

Jim Ramstad

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Josiah Strong

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

Jan C. Ting