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When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
The suspicion that immigrants are not to be trusted or are unpatriotic is not just wrong; it is un-American. And dangerous.
Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy.
People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.
I'm the only one who is saying, 'Let's take fewer immigrants.' We want people to integrate, we don't want ghettos in Canada.
Highly skilled immigrants are critical to innovation and are important contributors to economic growth in the United States.
We should be a nation that welcomes immigrants, keeps families together, and ensures that everyone gets a fair day in court.
The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States.
A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.
Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants.
In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.
My parents were South Korean immigrants who came to America in the early 80s for the hope of a better life for their children.
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
I strongly support screening all visitors and potential immigrants thoroughly to prevent bad actors from entering the country.
Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.
I am a granddaughter of immigrants, put myself through college as a waitress, and I started my career as a computer programmer.
More than 1 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and my country remains the largest source of immigrants to the United States.
My husband is so upset by President Trump's scapegoating of immigrants and Muslims, he refuses to even visit the United States.
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
My parents were first-generation immigrants. My mum wore a sari but at school and as a teenager and in my 20s I wanted to fit in.
Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.
I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.
Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.
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.
All asylum seekers at our border should remind us that we are a nation of immigrants and that we were once strangers at the border.
A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.
We were second-generation immigrants, and it was luxury enough to go to college. The luxury of the arts was still a generation away.
My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.
I come from a family of working people. My parents were Guatemalan immigrants who spent most of their lives in the service industry.
What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.
That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.
Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.
As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.
I would not invest in a Trump hate wall. We don't need to be protected from immigrants that are coming here seeking asylum and refuge.
When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.
Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.
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.
We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.
The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration.
Being an immigrant myself, but feeling very American, and also being the child of immigrants, I understand the feeling of wanting a home.
The Immigration Act of 1924 closed our doors to virtually all non-European immigrants - a great wrong that was not rectified for decades.
If we continue to dump more Mexican immigrants on the country, we'll get to the point that we'll never have another Republican president.
Immigrants are not the main threat to the industrialized world's workforce: robots are - or, rather, artificially intelligent robots are.
My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
We are a country of immigrants who have built this great nation, but it is legal immigration that we should be recognizing and encouraging.
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.