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Immigrants are more fertile. -- Jeb Bush
Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity. -- Jeb Bush
Immigrants have been the sustenance and the survival and the treasure of America. -- Mark Shields
Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them. -- Charles B. Rangel
Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them. -- Charles B. Rangel
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants. -- Stephen Ambrose
Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success. -- Charles Kennedy
Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians. -- Carl I. Hagen
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I take issue with many people's description of people being "Illegal" Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned. -- Dennis Kucinich
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city. -- Rabindranath Maharaj
America is or should be about inclusion. Immigrants like muslims don't and can't fit the white European mold that prevailed in this country 50 years ago. -- Tom Gjelten
Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity. -- Jeb Bush
Immigrants, as troubling as they are to some people, are an integral part of what the American Dream is supposed to be. They're understandable to a considerable number of Americans. -- Nguyen Viet Thang
[Immigrants ] are going back where they came. If they came from a certain country, they are going to be brought back to their country. That's the way it's supposed to be. -- Donald Trump
Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch. -- Harry Browne
As you know, today was Don't Take Your Illegal Immigrant To Work Day here in Los Angeles. No, all across the nation they had a Day Without Immigrants, is what they call it. Or, as Native Americans call it, the good ol' days. -- Jay Leno
Immigrants can spread diseases for which we may have no immunity. There is also the question of crime and culture. Many immigrants come from countries with different legal structures and are not willing to behave in the way we expect American citizens to behave. -- Ron Paul
Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival. -- Tariq Ramadan
America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness. -- Charles B. Rangel
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too. -- Barack Obama
We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more. -- Marco Rubio
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. -- Noam Chomsky
We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream. -- Ted Cruz
The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa. -- Otto Schily
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. -- Bill Gates
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Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S. -- Timothy Murphy
And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers. -- Julian Castro
We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America. -- Marco Rubio
The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens. -- Dennis Miller
If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them. -- Jesse Ventura
My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board. -- Howard Gardner
Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy. -- Hanna Rosin
You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration. -- Jan Brewer
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants. -- Amy Chua
Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans. -- Ami Bera
I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! -- Kerry Washington
Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously. -- Hugh Jackman
Canada has an immigration policy you might want to emulate. They want more skilled and educated immigrants. In fact, that's all they take. But, see, since nobody's watching them, and they're not a superpower, nobody really cares. So they are allowed to act in their best interests. -- Rush Limbaugh
My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations. -- Stana Katic
We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things. -- Jan Brewer
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world? -- James Hillman
Americans are a nation of immigrants. -- Tim Kaine
People have to stop employing illegal immigrants. -- Hillary Clinton
Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds. -- Yakov Smirnoff
The United States is historically a nation of immigrants. -- Charles B. Rangel
The United States is historically a nation of immigrants. -- Charles B. Rangel
Thousands of Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants. -- Donald Trump
I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants. -- Brian Sandoval
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young. -- Margaret Mead
Unlicensed, illegal immigrants are the safest drivers on the road. -- Dov Davidoff
Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.' -- Howard Dean
We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country. -- Boris Johnson
In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom! -- Rick Santorum
I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised. -- Mario Cuomo
Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life. -- John F. Kennedy
Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants -- Jay-Z
I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in. -- Marvin Olasky
We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. -- Bob Inglis
Illegal immigrants should be required to return to their home country. -- Mitt Romney
Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time. -- Tom Bodett
People associate farmworkers with illegal immigrants, and that's really not the case. -- Eva Longoria
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants. -- Martin Lewis Perl
One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits. -- Barbara Jordan
Giving tuition breaks to the children of illegal immigrants needs to stop. -- Mitt Romney
The United States needs to be made more appealing to legal immigrants. -- Mitt Romney
We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border. -- Zach Wamp
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. -- Billy Corgan
I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants. -- Sidney Altman
All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places. -- Jerry Saltz
The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents. -- Melanie Fiona
America was built on immigrants, and what they bring 'to the table.' -- Robert Irvine
People that have died 10 years ago are still voting, illegal immigrants are voting. -- Donald Trump
Don`t go to the dark side. Don`t go bashing immigrants or Muslims. -- Bernie Sanders
We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws. -- Elton Gallegly
America is a nation of immigrants. We have to have a functioning immigration system. -- Tim Kaine
We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants. -- Jose Serrano
Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins. -- Renee Zellweger
All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. -- Daniel Pipes
I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more. -- Andrew Lam
America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America. -- Sofia Vergara
Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter. -- Timothy Murphy
I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America. -- Phil Gramm
Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they're not voting for you, b*tch. -- Joy Behar
In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival. -- Rudolf Arnheim
I think there are too many guns. That's a problem. I'd rather have immigrants than guns. -- Myka 9
The Supreme Court has only granted citizenship to the children born to legal immigrants, not illegal. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
I think Donald Trump will articulate what we do with the people [immigrants] who are here. -- Mike Pence
My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country. -- Yip Harburg
Illegal immigrants have been a problem in America for hundreds of years...Just ask any Indian. -- Peter Jennings
When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens. -- Greg Gutfeld
It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community -- Pope Francis
An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants. -- Mitt Romney
The Supreme Court has only granted citizenship to the children born to legal immigrants, not illegal. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom. -- Tom Gjelten
Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy. -- John Gokongwei
Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America? -- Evgeni Kostitsyn
The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream. -- Stephen A. Schwarzman
There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion. -- Antonis Samaras
I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do. -- Lou Barletta
It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic. -- Andrew Lam
I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America. -- Mimi Kennedy
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal. -- Jeff Sessions
You know, a huge drain on California's economy is the illegal immigrants. We need to close the borders. -- Larry Flynt
Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States. -- Nathan Deal
We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line. -- Rupert Murdoch
I'll also tell you that to no less extent my mom, who was the daughter of Irish immigrants. -- Mike Pence
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. -- Amy Bloom
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture. -- Filip Dewinter
The problem is, then you see immigrants saving cities in Baltimore and you see 40 Korean groceries get burned down. -- Greg Gutfeld
It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs. -- Lamar S. Smith
It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens. -- Jon Kyl
I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere. -- M.I.A.
It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents. -- John Linder
In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day. -- Charles B. Rangel

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