#grants

Superorganism. A biologist coined that word for our great African ant colonies, claiming that consciousness and intelligence resided not in the individual ant but in the collective ant mind. The trail of red taillights stretching to the horizon as day broke around us made me think of that term. Order and purpose must reside somewhere other than within each vehicle. That morning I heard the hum, the respiration of the superorganism. It's a sound the new immigrant hears but not for long. By the time I learned to say "6-inch Number 7 on rye with Swiss hold the lettuce," the sound, too, was gone. It became part of the what the mind would label silence. You were subsumed into the superorganism. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#consciousness #immigrants #new-york #intelligence

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in. ↗

— Mahmoud Darwish

#immigrants #dreams

We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#any #arizona #cannot #care #costs

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. ↗

— Charles Vest

#amount #award #best #cannot #changes

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#choice #education #generation #immigrants #many

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed? ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #conduct #crown #different #disposition

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#dread #emigrants #held #indians #mexican

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#different #fear #history #ignorance #immigrants

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#as far as #between #billion #far #federal

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#after #because #fill #generation #hardest