#immigrant

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#century #early #freedom #immigrants #jewish

The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa. ↗

— Otto Schily

#attacks #committed #community #immigrants #local

I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#adopted #am #another #child #comes

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#american workers #cheap #competition #every #foreign

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#congress #continues #debate #immigrants #important

Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due. ↗

— Amor Towles

#new-york-city #socialites #new-york-city

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#america #cherish #hate #immigrants #love

America was and is the immigrant's dream. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#dream #immigrant

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then. ↗

— Bruce Dern

#back #followed #forget #how #hundred

You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#administration #amnesty #based #borders #bush