Quotes tagged ‘Immigration’

“If Trump does sign an executive order that would void birthright citizenship, it could line the administration up for a battle with the Supreme Court, though it’s not clear how the court would rule on the matter.”

— Christianna Silva, teenvogue.com

“It’s crucial we remember that la migra is more than a bogeyman, and the people who would seemingly love to deploy its full force are in power.”

— Ella Cerón, teenvogue.com

“Melania felt it was too traumatic to move her son to DC in the middle of the school year so she spent millions of taxpayer dollars to stay in NY w him for MONTHS!”

— Charles M. Blow, twitter.com

“No good person has ever advocated for the senseless separation of kids from their parents.”

— Kumail Nanjiani, twitter.com

“When I heard Donald Trump compare undocumented immigrants to animals, I felt gutted. I took to bed and licked my wounds, a beastly thing to do. But there is not a lot of time to swim around in your own wounds when you’re an immigrant who works around the clock to help your family survive, to help so…”

— Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, jezebel.com

“33 years ago my parents dragged our family here from the war on their own two feet, it was a matter of survival. We came to this country with no money, and not being able to speak the language. My mother pregnant with my older brother, and then myself a year after, found a job, learned the language,…”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“What's being described here are internment camps for children who are kidnapped by the state as part of an ethnic cleansing program.”

— Moira Donegan, twitter.com

“That level of influx of multinational workers in this country has sort of confirmed how lazy as a nation we are—when individuals from across the seas are prepared to come and work twice as hard for less money. If anything, it’s a big kick up the ass for the industry, and it’s going to get back to th…”

— Gordon Ramsay, radiotimes.com

“I hear them say go home, I hear them say fucking immigrants, fucking refugees. Are they really this arrogant? Do they not know that stability is like a lover with a sweet mouth upon your body one second; the next you are a tremor lying on the floor covered in rubble and old currency waiting for its…”

— Warsan Sire, amazon.com

“For almost 90 minutes Sunday morning, immigrants and those undocumented U.S. residents who were brought to the country as children could reasonably have thought that Donald Trump had wished them a happy Easter.”

— Alan Pyke, thinkprogress.org

“People focus so strongly on illegal immigration, they forget that the number of people who enter the U.S. illegally is dwarfed by the number who become citizens.”

— John Moore, foto.gettyimages.com

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, nytimes.com

“Then he got me an apartment in his building. But they mixed up the mail. And I never got my immigration renewal papers. So they deported me. It's all his fault. Him. And the woman. But they did not care. They're totally indifferent. All they do is mock me, just like they did the fat fellow. All the…”

— Larry David, Babu Bhatt, Brian George, imdb.com

“I am for open immigration but that sign we have on the front of the Statue of Liberty, ‘Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...,’ can't we just say, ‘Hey, the door's open, we'll take whoever you got’? Do we have to specify the wretched refuse? I mean, why don't we just say, ‘Give us th…”

— Peter Mehlman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“I'm going to save up every rupee. Someday I will get back to America, and when I do I will exact vengeance on this man. I cannot forget him. He haunts me. He is a very bad man. He is a very, very bad man.”

— Peter Mehlman, Babu Bhatt, Brian George, imdb.com

“I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody c…”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“Austria is the country with the highest migration in the European Union.”

— Sebastian Kurz, ft.com

“When immigration policy is working right, it is like a hydroelectric dam: a sturdy wall whose valves allow torrents of water to pour through, creating massive amounts of dynamic energy. The reservoir that supplies the power is full and constantly replenishing. The valves can be adjusted against the…”

— Jeb Bush, amazon.com

“The American The American immigration experience is the most aspirational story ever told. experience is the most aspirational story ever told.”

— Jeb Bush, amazon.com

“What makes us American is not a question of what we look like, or where our names come from, or the way we pray. What makes us American is our fidelity to a set of ideals – that all of us are created equal; that all of us deserve the chance to make of our lives what we will; that all of us share an…”

— Barack Obama, facebook.com