Immigrants Quotes
Sad Quotes about Immigrants

We are all immigrants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must honor our country's tradition of openness and
continue to welcome new immigrants.
- Jose Serrano

The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed
by members of the local Muslim community,
immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
- Otto Schily

That should be our test regarding immigrants.
Those who come to America to tear it down or live off
of others should not be welcomed.
- Marvin Olasky

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants,
about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
- Luis Gutierrez

Reading makes immigrants of us all.
It takes us away from home, but more important,
it finds homes for us everywhere.
- Jean Rhys

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

Immigrants are people who leave one country,
one society, and move to another society.
But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
- Samuel P. Huntington

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S.,
one that too easily can lead to the exploitation,
abuse and even death of immigrants.
- Roger Mahony

Our country stands at a critical point in its history.
Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.
- Roger Mahony

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration,
we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants
that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.
- Bob Filner

The voters in my district, and around the country,
have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx
of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.
- John Linder

My parents came to the United States in the early years
of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish
immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.
- Daniel Nathans

In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually
improves homeland security by allowing our government
to track who is in our borders.
- Joe Baca

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.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings,
as did many immigrants.
- Martin Lewis Perl

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
- Charles Rangel

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation
that will affect the lives of immigrants,
it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.
- Jose Serrano

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.
- Marvin Olasky

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem
European countries face where second and third generation
immigrants still do not consider themselves French,
German, or English.
- Bobby Jindal

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas,
cities halfway across America have begun to see an
influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.
- Spencer Bachus

There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government
to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side
of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.
- Timothy Murphy

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and
opportunity and the value of education more than 7th
or 8th generation Americans.
- Malcolm Wallop

We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.
- Bob Inglis

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

Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country
are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
- Iris Chang

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
- Samuel P. Huntington

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
- Rudolf Arnheim

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime,
welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens,
the more you control all the people.
- Noam Chomsky

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.
- Elton Gallegly

Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both
by those who cross our borders illegally and by the
businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.
- Steve Israel

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans.
America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
- Eric Hoffer

We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
- Zach Wamp

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage
more illegal immigrants to enter.
- Timothy Murphy

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation
immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films.
Those with an accent are bad guys.
- Max von Sydow

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a
year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000
illegal immigrants a month,
over and above emergency health services.
- Elton Gallegly

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

Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and
interstates without insurance,
and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.
- Spencer Bachus

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
- Sidney Altman

A system of cameras and censors are used along the
border and interior to help detect the movement of
illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.
- Timothy Murphy

Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly
one out of every ten births in the United States.
- Nathan Deal

Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders.
That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom
we know next to nothing about.
- Steve Israel

The White House looked into a plan that would allow
illegal immigrants to stay in the United States.
The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.
- Dennis Miller

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap
foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
- Lamar S. Smith

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal
immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
- John Linder

Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor,
and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
- Luis Gutierrez

The descendants of European immigrants do not govern
the United States of America today.
The foreign and domestic policies of the country are
made by the Jews and their lackeys.
- Julius Streicher

It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct,
to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those
from Mexico and Central America,
for the social and economic ills of our state and nation.
- Roger Mahony

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts,
but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between
$90 billion and $140 billion in Federal,
State, and local taxes.
- Luis Gutierrez

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America,
it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants,
but we are in some part a nation of emigrants,
which often gets neglected.
- Samuel P. Huntington

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans,
with no intention of returning home.
They relinquished their ties with their homeland.
English was their key to prosperity,
and they worked hard to master it.
- John Shadegg

My father was the son of immigrants,
and he grew up bilingual,
but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me.
America's strength is not our diversity;
it is our ability to unite around common principles
even when we come from different backgrounds.
- Ernest Istook

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions.
They use very sophisticated equipment,
including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.
- Timothy Murphy

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including
uncompensated care for illegal immigrants,
and the large number of Native Americans who live in
remote and isolated areas of the state.
- Rick Renzi

Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides
in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants.
That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student
who moves out of California for a year,
then returns to attend college.
- Elton Gallegly

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

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother,
Jewish.
Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States,
the ship started to sink.
My grandmother jumped overboard.
My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.
- Emanuel Celler

Israel's capital will never again be a divided city,
a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly.
This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants,
welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.
- Yitzhak Shamir

The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn
vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen.
The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States,
and this allegiance is what unites America.
- Jim Ryun

Let me respond with a few points, the first being that
all immigrants pay taxes,
income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes,
gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.
- Luis Gutierrez

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year.
It also discourages immigrants from integrating into
American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.
- Ernest Istook

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the
United States from Ireland.
My father never knew his parents.
His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth,
and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.
- George J. Mitchell

We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical
about this because we come from places that have tried
this and we know where it leads.
Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health
care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.
- Mark Steyn

In this room we're all here together,
but there's probably a lot of different views,
people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves,
all the slaves are dead.
Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants,
too.
- Johnnie Cochran

The culture is going into a psychological depression.
We are concerned about our place in the world,
about being competitive: Will my children have as much
as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay
for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
- James Hillman

An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing
in the United States in January 2000.
This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population
in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S.
population of just over 281 million.
- Gary Miller

Because the truth is, today's immigrants,
as they have for generation after generation,
work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay,
jobs that are just about impossible to fill.
- Luis Gutierrez

I have written about the dispossessed,
immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy
the same legal rights as men,
the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether
the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States.
In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants,
criminals and terrorists.
Consular cards also are easily forged.
- Elton Gallegly

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing
on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants.
That certainly is a partial truth.
But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
- Samuel P. Huntington

As a first generation Jewish American,
I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have
come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves,
their families, and future generations.
- Jan Schakowsky