#immigration

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

— Erich Leinsdorf

#immigration #immigration problem #matters #me #president

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

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Jack Paar

#form #immigration #sincerest #sincerest form

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

As I would learn later on, developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world -- those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt. ↗

— Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

#immigration #dreams

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

Even judges' children hear something about the world, they go to the Black Sea like everyone in the country. They look out and feel the same urge to go somewhere, feel it tugging at them from head to toe. You don't have to be particularly bad off to think: This can't be a the life I get. The judges' children know as well as Lilli and me that the same sky that looks down on the border guards stretches all the way to Italy or Canada, where things are better than here. One way or the other, the attempt will be made, whether sooner or later, in this way or that. ↗

— Herta Müller

#life

The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner. ↗

— Joe Baca

#american people #applications #benefits #depend #employees

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#concerns #concrete #contributions #criteria #economic