507 Quotes About Immigration

  • Author Karl Wiggins
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    I know for a fact that if a country took me in and offered me assistance, I would be on my best behaviour forever! I would show total respect to the people of that nation and their laws. And I certainly wouldn’t expect special treatment.

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  • Author Karl Wiggins
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    Any immigrants found guilty of serious crime – rape, murder, violent gang membership – should be sent straight back to their country of origin. That ought to act as a deterrent. If they choose to bite the hand that feeds them, then they can fuck off. We don’t need people like that in this country.

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  • Author Gwen Calvo
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    moving from this point to another maybe another scar. so scar. pushed by light and love and stardust of salt and universe veins we are made the spirit within, we take the risk or lose the dream. and go on.

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  • Author Steven Waldman
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    Long before Emma Lazarus welcomed the tired and poor, Washington declared that the 'bosom of America [was] open to receive, the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions, whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges.

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  • Author Ingrid Rojas Contreras
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    They told us to strive for assimilation. The quicker we transformed into one of the many the better. But how could we choose? The U.S. was the land that saved us; Colombia was the land that saw us emerge.

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  • Author Patrick Ness
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    Why did the first settlers come?" Hildy asks me. "Why does anyone look for a new place to live?""Cuz the place yer a-leaving ain't worth staying for," Tam says. "Cuz the place yer a-leaving is so bad ye gotta leave.

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