In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.
When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won.
The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.
Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants.
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
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.
