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Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it's front-page news. I feel guilt. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1.44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state, -- Carole Keeton
I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants. -- Brian Sandoval
I'm a gay, undocumented immigrant; I have to be optimistic. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I'm glad I'm a comedian. Otherwise, my life would just be a series of undocumented low points. -- Kyle Kinane
Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it. -- Junot Diaz
On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker. -- Ana Castillo
Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about. -- Steve Israel
At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense. -- Cheech Marin
The wise decision by President Obama to grant some undocumented immigrants the right to remain in the United States for two years without the threat of deportation is already benefitting the country. -- Eliot Spitzer
Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students. -- Wendy Kopp
And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year. -- Luis Gutierrez
I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children. -- Gloria Steinem
I think we should be pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for every undocumented person residing in the United States who has not committed a violent crime, with a special emphasis on keeping families together. -- Conor Oberst
In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement. -- Eliot Spitzer
From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence. -- Eric Liu
If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country. -- Eric Liu
I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all. -- Conor Oberst
Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation. -- Roger Mahony
Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children. -- Mara Liasson
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart. -- Barack Obama
For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare. -- Gail Collins
We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not. -- Michael Bloomberg
Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers. -- Mark McKinnon
If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around. -- Gail Collins
Yes we need enhanced border control. Yes we need to focus our efforts on those who pose a threat to our country. But let's not fall into the trap set by the Tea Party and others who would tell you that every single undocumented individual is a drug smuggler, a terrorist, or a threat to the American way of life. That is simply not true. -- Michael Nutter
There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program -- Edward Yourdon
We would take millions [of undocumented illegal] if they would serve in the military. -- Eric Bolling
I'm lucky I'm a comedian, 'cause otherwise my life would just be a series of undocumented low points. -- Kyle Kinane
If you have a family member who maybe is undocumented, then you have an even greater reason to vote. -- Barack Obama
States and counties routinely bear the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens once they enter the criminal justice system. -- Michael Dean Crapo
Nobody here's for open borders. When undocumented people are apprehended, they should be sent back to wherever they came from. -- Richard Polanco
We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing. -- Hillary Clinton
Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left. -- Jay Leno
The estimated 11 or so million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States. This is what Mr. [Donald ] Trump promised back in November. -- Jake Tapper
Under my plan the undocumented or as you would say illegal immigrant wouldn't be in the USA. They only come in the country legally. -- Donald Trump
Part of comprehensive immigration reform is not just the path to citizenship for undocumented workers, but also the ability for families to be together. -- Pramila Jayapal
We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most Americans think it's true. -- Mark Shields
Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them and undercut Americans' wages. -- Hillary Clinton
In a groundbreaking move, the Associated Press, the largest news-gathering organization in the World, will no longer use the term 'illegal immigrant'. They will now use the phrase 'undocumented democrat'. -- Jay Leno
To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I want to get everybody out of the shadows, get the economy working, and not let employers like Donald Trump exploit undocumented workers, which hurts them, but also hurts American workers. -- Hillary Clinton
Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong. -- Alafair Burke
The idea is, Mr. [Donald] Trump won the primaries in no small way because he had this very forceful position, saying all 11 or 12 million undocumented immigrants will be forced to leave the country. -- Jake Tapper
Donald Trump used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower. He underpaid undocumented workers, and when they complained, he basically said what a lot of employers do: "You complain, I'll get you deported." -- Hillary Clinton

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