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Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.
It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.
Immigrants are working hard to give our families a better life. Isn't that what the American Dream is?
I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America.
As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.
It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.
I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.
Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.
I am against the policy which would promote the entry of immigrants into Europe, which cannot accept them.
Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.
America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.
I'm a woman of colour. I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a lefty liberal.
And we'll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy!
As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.
There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere.
It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes.
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
We must be clear: Donald Trump is lying when he conflates immigrants coming across the border with MS-13 gangs.
I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.
I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.
And they [illegal immigrants] will come back, but they are going to have to go out, and hopefully they get back.
The countries where you have the most fear of immigrants are the countries where you have the least immigration.
It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.
All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.
Sure, immigrants will do work that no-one else will do. There was even a movie about it - 'A Day Without Mexicans.'
If you're saying you should not be allowed in the country, you should be consistent and say that to all immigrants.
I come from a multicultural family. My wife's Thai. My children are half-Asian, half-Scottish; we're all immigrants.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
I don't want our country to be like other countries in Europe in having a challenge to integrate their new immigrants.
I am the son and grandson of immigrants. And I know that securing our borders is not anti-immigrant and we will do it.
My parents are immigrants to this country. They came to this country for a better opportunity just like everyone else.
I'm descended from southern slaves, and I'm descended on my mother's side from northern European Protestant immigrants.
If America vetted Muslim immigrants as toughly as the 'New York Times' vets Donald Trump, this would be a safe country.
This country was founded by immigrants... I don't see Mr. Trump looking like an Apache, so all of us, we are immigrants.
Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
I am the child of Indian immigrants, both of whom have Ph.D.s and are college professors, and I'm an actor in Hollywood.
I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country.
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.
The illegal immigrants are like termites. They are eating the grain that should go to the poor; they are taking our jobs.
Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.
We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.