63 Quotes About Immigrant

Do you know the difference between an expat and an immigrant? You're an immigrant in a country you look up to, an expat in one you consider beneath you.

You only really stop being an immigrant when you reject other immigrants and try to slam the door in their faces when they try to emulate you.

Barely one year in and our new country let us know, every day, that we were different.

The kids separated from their parents suffer the same trauma as the victims of human trafficking, therefore the administration that conducts such savagery in the name of immigration law must face the same legal consequence as human traffickers do, and if law fails to hold them accountable, the people must do it.

Unless you are an American Indian, you are a descendant of an immigrant yourself.

As long as we build walls around our cities, we make desperate people who want to come in more resolute to bring them down.

Zoe returned by rail to Claremont Village. After the train pulled away, she stood alone, beneath a security camera affixed to a lamppost. She looked up, and its lifeless eye looked straight back. In some uncontrollable fancy she turned and curtseyed, imagining someone wonderful on the other side of the lens would be captivated by her new American dress.

And so you carriedlife for the world, Mary,as you fled,to protect that very lifefrom threats of death.Joining the world's mass of displaced peopleyou becameRefugee,Alien,Immigrant,Homeless,and settled in a foreign land--the only placeto safely nurtureyour fragile dream.Like so many other womenwho flee violence,clutching their babies,you crossed the border defining youa stranger,dependent on foreign aid, welfareand hand-outs--the charity of others--to feed the Son of God.

You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They’ll believe all kinds of shit about Africa.