#immigration

They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#absolutely nothing #country #democratic #democratic party #entrance

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#attempting #citizenship #doing #downloaded #had

Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits. ↗

— Laura Esquivel

#exclusion #immigration #judgement #punishment #slavery

I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever. ↗

— Jeb Bradley

#i #immigration #need #people #saying

As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family ↗

— Miguel Syjuco

#family #immigration #family

Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart. ↗

— Marina Budhos

#family #immigration #family

Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#naturalisation #united-states #nature

Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#immigration #numerous #problems #states #system

The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#babies #billion #born #center #cost

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration. ↗

— John Edwards

#benefits #comes #couples #deserve #done