#immigrant

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

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#america #critique #emigrants #finally #gets

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

— Samuel P. Huntington

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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

We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. ↗

— Bob Inglis

#laws #nation

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

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

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