507 Quotes About Immigration

What tethers me to my parents is the unspoken dialogue we share about how much of my character is built on the connection I feel to the world they were raised in but that I've only experienced through photos, visits, food. It's not mine and yet, I get it. First-generation kids, I've always thought, are the personification of déjà vu.

But if she allowed that story to continue to be told, over and over again - that her mother was a nobody, anonymous, an immigrant who couldn't speak the language, another immigrant who worked a job that no one else wanted, another casualty of more important people - she would be letting them win, wouldn't see? She would be allowing them to sweep her mother away like dirt and dust.

...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. 

Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.

Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

How much of ME is my own and how much is stamped into my blood and bone, predestined?

I am hopeful that we will say ‘Adios’ to the toxic Trump administration in 2020.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.