#immigrant

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#first #first of all #haven #immigrants #welcomed

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. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#attracted #country #culture #economic #economic opportunities

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. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#american #aspect #assumed #certainly #concept

In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders. ↗

— Joe Baca

#allowing #borders #fact #government #homeland

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

People have to stop employing illegal immigrants. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrants #people #stop

If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#barack #barack obama #brought #children #college

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#even #generation #greatest #greatest thing #immigrant

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#me #new #new yorker #project #touched

I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable and yet still enables us to get a crop out of the ground in south Georgia. ↗

— John Linder

#accountable #believe #crop #employers #enables