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.
My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
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 ...
Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal
Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal (Candler)
If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.
See the universe with others eyes only to find out what others think, but not for your legal opinion.
The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.
Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.
I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.
It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
