This is my first time doing something like this. It's time to get involved. It's not about racism. It's about illegal immigration. We've always welcomed immigrants. We just want them to be legal.
Immigration Quotes (285 Quotes)
The themes have to do with immigration, our past, and are we guilty when we're 6 years old, ... For me, the big subject is not what my husband in the film (Daniel Auteuil) has done as a child, but in not recognizing his fault, he's damaged someone's life. The theme is universal it doesn't just belong to the French-Algerian past, but triggers something we all can share.
People are seeing immigration as a negative. That's a shame, because if it's done right, it's a positive. Americans believe in reasonable legal immigration, but they have major heartburn with people breaking the law.
There's no doubt that we are at a high in immigration to the United States.
will give a voice to the public who are concerned with uncontrolled immigration.
Rather than undergoing a continuous increase in immigrant levels as is commonly perceived, the United States experienced a sharp spike in immigration flows over the past decade that had a distinct beginning, middle and end.
Only the amnesty leg 'worked.' That is, a lot of foreign lawbreakers got full amnesty, and it spurred a lot more mass illegal immigration. The 2 million residual illegal alien population of 1988 grew to 3.5 million in 1990, 4 million in 1992, 5 million in 1996, 7 million in 2000 and 10 million today.
Our workers understand that we empathize with the immigration issues, but, at the same time, tomatoes need harvesting.
I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.
The biggest thing is the decline in wages for the low and moderate income people. Part of it is large periods of higher than average unemployment, globalization jobs going overseas the shift from manufacturing jobs to lower paying service sector jobs, immigration, the weakening of unions, and the fact that the federal minimum wage has been declining relative to inflation.
What the marches have done is give a human face to the immigration issue in the United States today.
I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible. It abounds all over the western country, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, and its development has scarcely commenced. . . . Immigration, which even the war has not stopped, will land upon our shores hundred of thousands more per year from overcrowded Europe. I intend to point them to the gold and silver that waits for them in the West. Toll the miners from me, that I shall promote their interests to the utmost of my ability because their prosperity is the prosperity of the Nation, and we shall prove in a very few years that we are indeed the treasury of the world. Message for the miners of the West, delivered verbally to Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax, who was about to depart on a trip to the West, in the afternoon of April 14, 1865, before Lincoln left for Ford's Theatre. Colfax delivered the message to a large crowd of citizens in Denver, Colorado, May 27, 1865. - Edward Winslow Martin, The Life and Public Services of Schuyler Colfax, pp. 187-88 (1868).
Under the Cuban Adjustment Act, he would have that. We're just accelerating the time so that his permanent residency status would take this out of an immigration issue and into a family court so that we can determine what's in the best interest of this child,
We were telling people that illegal immigration is a very serious problem.
Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
We support reform of the U.S. immigration system, but we also estimate about 20 percent of the current residential construction workforce nationwide is composed of foreign-born workers.
Her knowledge and expertise of immigration issues, coupled with her humanity, fairness, dedication, and compassion, have enabled her to steer the agency towards a more balanced program of judicious enforcement and improved customer service, ... She has served the American people well.
We are producing more jobs than the labor market has workers for ... we're desperate for immigration,
People don't want an increase in immigration, and legalizing someone who is illegal just sticks in their craw.
Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.
The only change would be transferring the legal authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Services from the Justice Department to the Homeland Security Department,
I don't want a country where 10 people living in a mobile home is the new way to do things. We don't need to shut down immigration. We just need to bring it into balance where it becomes a positive instead of a negative.
However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.
Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
Before I left New York to go to Virginia and to enjoy the country, I filed an application with the Immigration.
Our immigration system is outdated, inadequate and ineffective -- but H. R. 4437 is not the answer. We need sweeping reform to ensure that immigration is safe, legal, orderly and fair to workers and employers throughout the United States. As a union of immigrant workers, we call on our elected officials to adopt comprehensive reform that respects our tradition as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws.
Clearly, the disbursement of immigration out of the Southwest to the rest of the country, out of cities into the suburbs is making it more politically important for a lot of people.
I don't think home values will crash -- they will rust, not bust. Demographics have underpinned demand, courtesy of a wave of immigration in the past 16 years that reduced supply, and you don't see the speculative overhang that could contribute to a bust in home values.
to combat the growing devastation caused by the crimes associated with illegal immigration.
What is new is the extent of immigration, some of it legal, some of it not, in new communities across the country. They don't know how to deal with it so they freak out and pass laws.
DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the Mayflower and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral.
It could have an effect, ... It will certainly make it more difficult to reach a consensus on immigration.
It's not all one way with respect to the problem of immigration, and certainly with respect to immigrants themselves.
The bill before us today does nothing to solve the real problems of immigration. It's worse than nothing because it tries to fool the public. It pulls the wool over their eyes. It pretends we are doing something to secure our border when in fact we are doing nothing except throw words and money at the problem.
I would say that the immigration debate is as hot as gun control, abortion, the war in Iraq. I've never seen it this hot in terms of emotion.
Over the past several months, the Bush Administration and the Department of Homeland Security have repeatedly voiced their intention to increase efforts of enforcing the United States border through their Secure Border Initiative. The Secure Border Initiative is a comprehensive multi-year plan to secure America's borders and reduce illegal immigration. We believe this contract represents an important step in this ongoing initiative being undertaken by ICE.
We're currently trying to understand the scope and the detail of the investigation, ... We are talking to the immigration bureau and, of course, are committed to cooperating with them.
It is a bill which clearly is going to be decisive in helping us move towards stopping illegal immigration,
Immigrants come in and the industries that use this type of labor grow. Taking all into account, the effects of immigration are much, much lower.
Barring people from the country because of their ideas skews and impoverishes political debate inside the United States. The government should not be using the immigration laws as instruments of censorship.
Millions of American workers, in all sectors of the labor market, have seen their jobs and wages undercut by the phenomenon of mass illegal immigration.
You end up, after a point, trying to balance our fundamental traditions, the need for order, law and security with a need for openness. Immigration policy, writ large, has always been partly a matter of national identity. It becomes a values-laden debate. Congress is having a hard time with it.
Civil liberties groups, conservative groups, immigration groups we've all been saying that Real ID will be a real disaster and needs to be revisited by Congress.
This whole education fight is clearly a proxy for the immigration debate. A lot of people here feel if you don't build it, they won't come.
It could be 50, it could be 300. The only reason we are thinking there may be less is that, illegal immigrants are afraid because there have been rumors of immigration officials being in the area.
There are a myriad of immigration laws that, when looked at through the common sense of justice, don't add up.
Our laws and attitudes on immigration have been almost schizophrenic. At times we have thrown open our nation's doors virtually without limit at other times we have tried vainly to build walls - legal and physical. Today our laws reflect that confusion.
I believe this is the first time in history that Hispanic organizations nationwide are coming together to take a stand on immigration reform.
The current conversation about immigration is based on fear and misunderstanding. It's not based on fact, concern about safety, or even really about jobs.
It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.