#immigration

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#american public #borders #caucus #continues #focus

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem. ↗

— Erich Leinsdorf

#immigration #immigration problem #matters #me #president

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#economy #education #every #healthcare #immigration

All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against the next boatload approaching the shore. To defend one’s home and fields and ancestral graves against invasion seems a right. But to claim unique possession – to compound the fact of settlement with the aspect of a landscape into an abstract of eternal and immutable ownership – is a joke. ↗

— Neal Ascherson

#home

I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#advocate #comprehensive #i #immigration #immigration reform

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#arabs #ensure #hand #hebrew #immigration

Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#identity #immigration #religion #courage

No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#imaginary-things #immigrants #immigration #imagination