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• I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer – and I didn’t want to be either one.

  Suheir Hammad

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• I’ve commissioned an adaptation of ‘The Jungle’, by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.

  David Schwimmer

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• People want a result. Immigrant voters aren’t stupid, and they’re going to know who’s on their side.

  Tom Snyder

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• My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

  George J. Mitchell, Jr.

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• I’m an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

  Padma Lakshmi

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• Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the ’50s were immigrant values even though we weren’t immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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• California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.

  Gary Miller

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• First of all, we haven’t always welcomed immigrants.

  Samuel P Huntington

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• Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.

  Elton Gallegly

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  Tags in United States, Illegal, Immigrant

• Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That’s grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.

  Elton Gallegly

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• We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

  Elton Gallegly

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• They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country’s life and I took it.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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• It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

  Eric Hoffer

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• Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it’s more than a set of rights.

   

  Eric Liu

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  Tags in Conservatives, Citizenship, Immigrant

• I’m very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

  Zinedine Zidane

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• As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

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• My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

  Arthur Rock

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