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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
Too many immigrants lack basic workplace protections because of their immigration status.
We are a country of immigrants who have built this great nation, but it is legal immigration that we should be recognizing and encouraging.
Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.
Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens.
I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.
You know, a huge drain on California's economy is the illegal immigrants. We need to close the borders.
I am the child of Indian immigrants, both of whom have Ph.D.s and are college professors, and I'm an actor in Hollywood.
Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.
Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.
I predict that as warm weather returns to Europe, so will the flood of Middle Eastern immigrants.
They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.
We are committed to ensuring that immigration is not further criminalized and that all immigrants are treated with dignity and provided with a path to citizenship.
Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
If we grant immigrants moral agency, we assume that they are capable of abiding by the law, and that they are legally responsible when they do not.
We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.
Illegal immigrants have been a problem in America for hundreds of years...Just ask any Indian.
How do we form a coalition of resistance without obliterating our differences? Not all lives matter, and we are not all the same immigrants.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Criminals take advantage of weak laws, like giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
The illegal immigrants are like termites. They are eating the grain that should go to the poor; they are taking our jobs.
There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.
I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.
The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.
The Supreme Court has only granted citizenship to the children born to legal immigrants, not illegal.
The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States.
I am a granddaughter of immigrants, put myself through college as a waitress, and I started my career as a computer programmer.
We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants.
An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants.
Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom.
Immigrants are working hard to give our families a better life. Isn't that what the American Dream is?
I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.
I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America.
All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.
I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.
[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.
Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who these [immigrants] are, where they come from. I always say Trojan Horse.
Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.
African-Americans and black immigrants share a resilience and a determination for a better life.
Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country.
Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
Immigrants are illegal, since once they set foot on European soil, they have violated the law.
I am the son and grandson of immigrants. And I know that securing our borders is not anti-immigrant and we will do it.
The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.
So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.
When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
America is a nation of immigrants, and we should treat those who come to our country with dignity and respect.
My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.
It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens.
A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.
I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.
As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.
