507 Quotes About Immigration

Did she now know what it was like to have so little agency? To be faced with such cruel options it was as if there was no choice at all?

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Trump didn't divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames.

Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if weFail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?

A while after I was old enough to understand this story, I pointed out how backwards it was to have fled to the nation that had driven them out of theirs, but they never copped to the irony of it. They needed to believe they'd done the right thing and that it made sense.

Crazy how so many British people can walk into Tesco, see 30 self-service checkouts, and still believe that it's immigrants who are taking all the jobs.

I've come to think that there's an age beyond which it is impossible to lift a child from the pervading marinade of an original country, pat them down with a paper napkin and then deep-fry them in another country, another language like hot oil scalding the first language away.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.