507 Quotes About Immigration

I soon realized we just swapped one hell for another.

At least if she had committed a crime, she would have stood in front of a judge and answered the charge against her. If convicted, she would have been properly sentenced, and then she would know exactly how long she was to be here. But as a detainee she had no idea when she would be let out.

Annie Moore never made a fortune or wrote a book or invented a computer, and why should she? Why should immigrants be deemed extraordinary in order to deserve a place at the table?

Obélix, mange et ne fais pas de commentaires! En Bretagne, il faut faire comme les Bretons!" (Astérix)

It is true that other countries, particularly in Europe, have in the past several decades opened themselves up to immigration. But the real problem is not immigration but assimilation. Anyone can do immigration. But if you don’t assimilate the immigrants—France, for example, has vast, isolated exurban immigrant slums with populations totally alienated from the polity and the general culture—then immigration becomes not an asset but a liability.

Saipov studied accounting in Uzbekistan. Then he got a U.S. green card and his life fell apart.

It’s troubling to see how privilege accumulates over generations, particularly white privilege in the US, and, when people reach a certain level of safety, to see how they pull the ladder up after themselves.

As soon as she opened the door to her office and invited us in, a blast of cold wind from the air conditioner swallowed me in its gentle, westernized embrace. I took in a deep breath, and suddenly, America was inside my lungs. Next to me, my mother began to cry.

These are the layers of our country, those we see and those we don’t.