#immigrant

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#crossing #followed #girl #grandfather #grandmother

Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe. ↗

— Iris Chang

#coming #country #europe #immigrants #most

It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#america #appears #blame #central #correct

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#crime #fear #immigrants #increase #more

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#immigrants #laws #nation

Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#between #eat #fair #five #folks

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

Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#cigarette #every #few #first #gasoline