#migrant

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#country #english #every #five #here

People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side. ↗

— Tom Snyder

#immigrant #know #people #result #side

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#action #determined #europe #even #father

In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#arena #driver #governor #i #immigrants

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#chance #country #deportation #doing #doing the right thing

The wise decision by President Obama to grant some undocumented immigrants the right to remain in the United States for two years without the threat of deportation is already benefitting the country. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#country #decision #deportation #grant #immigrants

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#america #bit #came #fear #immigrants

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#ethnic #help #immigrants #more #our

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#black #civilization #engaged #immigrant #in the past

A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home. ↗

— John Shadegg

#hispanic #home #illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrants