507 Quotes About Immigration

The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores.

When you leave one country for another, nobody tells you years will bleed together like rain on newsprint. One year becomes five. Five years become ten. Ten years become fifteen.

Эмиграция – дело непростое, и тот, кто полагает, что, выбрав себестрану для проживания, он разом прыгнет в рай, глубоко ошибается, хотя бы потому, чторая нет нигде.Будет одиночество. Будет потеря социальных ролей. Будут заплетенные извилиныот ненормального, нечеловеческого чужого языка. Не каждый может выстоять, а тот, ктовыстоял, – сохранить душевное здоровье.

We call it ‘back home’knowing full well that the majority of us may never go back. That we may spend but a handful of weeks in the tropic heat and relentless traffic,tolerating family members we may have convincedourselves to have missed, but very few will submit to that final pull to return. We know our land, our soil as back home, but for many of usit is only the home we left back,the one we left so far behind to be thrust into a lifelong searchof another, of another, of another.

When an immigrant speaks of feeling uncomfortable just know, you are in the presence of man who knows what the sting of assimilation is.

But away from home, even the sturdiest men become vulnerable: beaten animals with lifeless expressions, their eyes full of extinguished stars. Far from their houses, they all become frightened children, and the only thing that could console them was the success of their venture.

God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.

I don't know what they might call this in law school, but I think it's pretty fucked up and it should be illegal.

I do not see that it is necessary for any people to prove to another that they build cathedrals or pyramids before they can be entitled to peace and safety.