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What we're going to do is have an immigration system that's in our national interest, and that's not what we've had up until now, We've had freedom of movement, which means we haven't been in control of who enters our country - those individuals have, just because of their nationality. And that's going to change.
Sajid Javid
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Immigration
Nationality
National Interest
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Any country must establish control over its borders. That is essential to sovereignty and the security of our citizens. But America, at our best, has balanced that political, legal, and social objective with an appreciation for the benefits of immigration and a sense of respect for the dignity of all human beings.
Ben Rhodes
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Appreciation
Legal
Balanced
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Naming me 'Twinkle' was a foolproof way of making sure that I would get teased throughout my life, have immigration officers at various airports stare at my passport and shake with hysterical laughter, and strangers stalk me with WhatsApp messages like, 'Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, I hope you get hit by a car!'
Twinkle Khanna
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Foolproof
Hysterical
Immigration
Laughter
Messages
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Whatsapp
Airport
Hit
Star
Passport
Naming
Strangers
Shake
Teased
Throughout
Twinkle
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Sometimes a politician gets up and talks about British values and what we think that means, and we can be knocked down quite harshly, but I don't think we should be. I think we should be able to talk about British values and about immigration without people saying, 'Oh, you're just being like a crazed other party.'
Amber Rudd
/
Immigration
Harshly
Talks
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We are all in favor of immigration that determines who gets in, the quantity of people who get in, whether they assimilate or not. Nobody's opposed to that. But immigration has been defined now as people flooding the country who are noncitizens. And that's called "immigration," according to the culture of the left.
Rush Limbaugh
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Talk Show Host
Country
Immigration
People
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America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.
George Will
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Columnist
Government
America
Arizona
Illegal
Illegal Immigrants
Immigrants
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Insisting
Refusal
Border
Developed
Estimated
First Things
Sensibly
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Innovation happens best when people of different backgrounds come together to solve the world's toughest challenges and, in the process, can create new jobs and opportunities. I'm hopeful that updated immigration policies will encourage entrepreneurs from around the world to help tackle these opportunities in the U.S.
Mike Krieger
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Backgrounds
Different Backgrounds
Hopeful
Immigration
Innovation
Best Together World
Entrepreneurs
New Jobs
Policies
Tackle
Toughest
Updated
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If we are going to deport Dreamers, and if we are going to deport undocumented individuals, our economy is going to take a big hit. That is why businesses across the country and in Nevada support immigration reform, support Dreamers, and support passing immigration reform to keep undocumented individuals in our state.
Catherine Cortez Masto
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Former Nevada Attorney General
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Nevada
Passing
Big Hit
Undocumented
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Legal immigrants play by the rules and come in under the law. They work, raise their families, pay taxes, and serve in the Armed Forces. ... Legal immigrants do not seek to cross the border, or overstay their visas. They come here the right way. ... And, by and large, they are here as the result of reunifying families.
Edward Kennedy
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Former United States Senator
Immigration
Law
Play
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Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the new Invisible Man - there but not there? In some ways, yeah. Blacks and whites are always carping about the metrics of racism. And any conversation about immigration reform is immediately flipped into a referendum on Hispanics.
John Ridley
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Screenwriter
Conversation
Flipped
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Invisible
Racism
Asians
Blacks
Hispanics
Immediately
Referendum
Whites
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The argument in Labour around full membership of the single market is about whether it can be squared with delivering the desire of many of our voters to gain greater control over immigration. This is a proper concern - Labour must stand for those who voted leave every bit as much as we represent those who voted remain.
Chuka Umunna
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British Politician
Concern
Delivering
Immigration
Membership
Voters
Gain
Proper
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Toronto is a world-class city. You don't have a debate here about immigration because you need it to just maintain your pensions: that's dependent on people coming in to fund that. And again, I don't want to be controversial, but I think the average education level in Canada is probably higher than in the United States.
Shahid Khan
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Businessman
Average
Canada
Controversial
Debate
Dependent
Fund
Immigration
Toronto
World Class
Maintain
Pensions
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We need to enact comprehensive immigration reform, to bring people out of the shadows and empower them to more fully and freely participate in their communities and the economy. And we need to invest in our nation's deteriorating infrastructure - investments that would create jobs and benefit all sectors of the economy.
Tom Perez
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Comprehensive
Deteriorating
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Infrastructure
Reform
Benefit
Invest
Empower
Freely
Participate
Sectors
Shadows
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An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the entire family migrate together, or allowing a caregiver to travel back and forth across the border, it should make it easier for workers to be with their families instead of harder.
Jody Heymann
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Immigration
Mean
Together
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Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength.
Donald Trump
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45Th President Of The United States
American Workers
Borders
Destroying
Foreign Affairs
Immigration
Other Countries
Protection
Workers
Affairs
American Families
Benefit
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.
Margaret Mead
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Cultural Anthropologist
Dominance
Immigration
Order
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By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply of any grade of labor relative to all other productive factors can be expected to raise its wage rate; and increase in supply will, other things being equal, tend to depress wage rates.
Paul Samuelson
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Economist
Depressing
Immigration
Principles
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We need to be discussing issues specifically to help the American people. And that would not include illegal aliens. These are people - I'm for immigration - legal immigration. I've been an immigration attorney. But people who have come to our country and violated laws, we should not be providing full health care services.
Joe Wilson
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Legal
Attorney
Discussing
Health Care
Illegal
Illegal Aliens
Immigration
Legal Immigration
Providing
Health People Care
Alien
American People
Include
Services
Specifically
Violated
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While the Pence-Hutchinson immigration reform idea is not perfect, it does represent a useful discussion point for future action. As diplomatically and kindly as possible, with all the greatest respect for differing points of view, let me just say that the Tancredo-Buchanan attack on Mike Pence is nuttier than a fruitcake.
Lawrence Kudlow
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Economist
Discussion
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Mike
Not Perfect
Reform
Useful
Attack
Represent
Differing
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What would be the political benefits to Obama of an amnesty? It could weld Hispanics to the Democratic Party, would be wildly popular with the ideological and Christian Left, and quietly welcomed by those Chamber-of-Commerce Republicans who have silently supported amnesty and secretly want immigration off the table in 2016.
Pat Buchanan
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Former Assistant To The President For Communications
Amnesty
Benefits
Democratic
Democratic Party
Ideological
Immigration
Obama
Republicans
Hispanics
Popular
Quietly
Secretly
Table
Welcomed
Wildly
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Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.
Richard Rohr
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Priest
Attitude
Health
Care
Christian
Consciousness
Country
Dominant
Health Care
Immigration
Issues
Poor
Racism
Real
Revealing
Slavery
Transformation
True
Attitudes
Believers
Health Care Country
Cultural
Echo
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Minority
Prejudices
Tend
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There is another part of his policy that we`re unclear about, which is how - whether he`s going to stick to this proposal to ban Muslim immigrants. It is amazing that we`re less than 70 days away from the election and we`re all waiting with kind of baited breath to find out what is [Donald] Trump`s immigration policy, right?
Michelle Goldberg
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Journalist
Immigration
Sticks
Waiting
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Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.
George Packer
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Journalist
Finance
Appointments
Campaign Finance
Climate Change
Creation
Immigration
Incapable
Job Creation
Judicial
Management
Safety
Security
Training
Addressing
Campaign
Executive
Matters
Joined
List
Mine
Pilot
Scores
Veterans
Wildfire
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Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate relative, but are part of extended families. The nepotistic U.S. policy lets in relatives then lets in the relatives' relatives, and so on, creating an endless and ever growing chain of new immigrants.
Ronald Reagan
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40Th U.s. President
Creating
Immigration
People
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My guess is that people with a stereotypically conservative exclusionary stance about immigration rarely have the sense that they feel disgusted that people elsewhere in the world would want to come to the United States for better lives. Instead, there is threat by the rabble, the unwashed masses, to the American way of life.
Robert Sapolsky
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Disgusted
Elsewhere
Immigration
Stance
Life World Better
American Way
Life Better World
Masses
Rabble
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Whether it's military resources or whatever it is doesn't matter. We need more detention facilities, more immigration judges, we need the ability to adjudicate these claims right on the spot without releasing people. If they don't have a credible claim of persecution and the vast majority do not, they get deported immediately.
Dan Crenshaw
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Claims
Credible
Detention
Immigration
Persecution
Claim
Vast
Facilities
Spot
People Matter Right
Judges
Releasing
Vast Majority
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I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.
Michael Bloomberg
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Former Mayor Of New York City
Common Sense
Immigration
Law
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I've always believed that immigration reform is important, but it won't decide the White House in 2016. The most important issue for Hispanics - just like with all Americans - is the economy. If Republicans can do a better job of articulating positive, conservative policies to grow our economy, we will do better with Hispanics.
Raul Labrador
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U.s. Representative
Articulating
Immigration
Immigration Reform
White House
All Americans
Better Job
Republicans
Hispanics
Important Issue
Policies
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...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to the back of the line? and shall those who have made a dramatic illegal entry, who would normally not be entitled to government assistance, or even entry itself, be put at the front?
Ed Koch
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Former United States Representative
Government
Country
Immigration
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Immigration is by far the most controversial yet least understood issue in America. Frankly, given the way we're talking about immigration, given the emphasis, the overemphasis on border security, I would argue that we're not on the same page when we debate this issue. We're doing far too much debating and not enough conversing.
Jose Antonio Vargas
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Journalist
Arguing
Debate
Immigration
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We talked a lot about Donald's [Trump] record on immigration. There is irony that he has made the center of his entire campaign immigration, given that he faced a $1 million court judgment for being part of a conspiracy to hire illegal aliens, given that news broke that he is hiring foreign workers at his fancy hotel in Florida.
Ted Cruz
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United States Senator
Campaigns
Florida
Immigration
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We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. It has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them.
Ronald Reagan
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40Th U.s. President
Immigration
Mean
Training
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When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.
Harvey Fierstein
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Actor
Bias
Defining
Denied
Equal
Equal Protection
Exclusion
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Legislation
Politician
Pragmatic
Protection
Reform
Sacrifice
Unfairness
Admit
Attack
Gays
Insure
Policies
Solely
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European countries simply do not have the ideological framework the United States has in the shape of the 'American dream' that has helped to absorb successfully wave after wave of immigration to the States, including Muslim Americans who are well integrated into American society. There is no analogous French dream or German dream.
Peter Bergen
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Broadcaster
American Dream
European Countries
Framework
Ideological
Immigration
Integrated
Wave
Absorb
German
Successfully
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Brazilian music has always been a part of us, but it's even more valuable now because of the sentiment or the theme of the actual song. So I feel like 'Street Livin'' is paying homage to what we started and it's touching on a lot of serious themes to DACA, immigration reform, prison control... all the things we address in the video.
Taboo
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Brazilian Music
Homage
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Prison
Reform
Theme
Touching
Valuable
Address
Brazilian
Sentiment
Themes
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I want to go to Mexico. I've been stonewalled, so far, by federal officials. I want to go to Mexico, and I want to meet with the top Mexican officials. I want to tell them my past experience and what I can do here as Sheriff to help them get better intelligence and communications on the drug thing, not the illegal immigration thing.
Joe Arpaio
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Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
Illegal
Illegal Immigration
Immigration
Mexican
Mexico
Officials
Communications
Sheriff
Federal
Meet
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Donald Trump has a very radical idea, and that's that when we make changes to our immigration laws, the group we should be most concerned about are everyday, hardworking Americans, the citizens who make this country run, who obey the laws, follow the rules, pay their taxes, show up and vote - the people who are loyal to this country.
Stephen Miller
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Citizens
Concerned
Everyday
Hardworking
Immigration
Immigration Laws
Loyal
Pay
Radical
Trump
Vote
Rules
Donald
Donald Trump
Follow
Group
Obey
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
Jacob Epstein
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Sculptor
Bother
Immigration
Persecution
Poland
Russia
Tree
Family Great Father
Arts
Followed
Sciences
Sufficiently
Waves
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The specific question was visa overstays.Current federal law requires a biometric exit-entry system when you come in on a visa. And the [Barack] Obama administration is just ignoring federal law. Forty percent of illegal immigration is not people who cross the borders illegally. It's people who come legally on a visa and never leave.
Ted Cruz
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United States Senator
Immigration
Law
People
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If America is to be the land of opportunity and the beacon of hope that we claim, our immigration policies must be rooted in the fundamental principles of humanity. They must recognize, respect and honor the basic human rights of all people. And they must uphold the commitments we as a country have made to the international community.
Sharice Davids
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Basic Human Rights
Fundamental Principles
Honor
Human Rights
Humanity
Immigration
International
International Community
Principles
Rooted
All People
Basic
Beacon
Claim
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Policies
Recognize
Uphold
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How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States? I mean, we just don't do the same things. What I've said, very simply, is that unlike other colonies, for the first 250 years approximately, indigenous people were either the dominant force or an equal force.
John Ralston Saul
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Author
Approach
Citizenship
Dominant
Equal
Europe
Force
Immigration
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Mean
Said
States
United
United States
Years
Approximately
Same
Canadian
Colonies
First
Simply
Dominant Force
Either
Possibly
Root
Same Things
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I believe that Senate Bill 1070 lit America on fire. I think we've all realized exactly what the situation is. And the people of Arizona have lived with these porous borders and illegal immigration into our state and that people throughout America realize that. Everybody understands the problem except the president of the United States.
Jan Brewer
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Governor Of Arizona
Arizona
Borders
Illegal
Illegal Immigration
Immigration
Lit
Senate
Exactly What
Understands
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My position here is that conservatives need a realistic approach to immigration that best serves and preserves our country's status and identity as a relatively high-functioning, at least for now, Western and First World nation. That status will not automatically maintain itself. It is fragile. It is precarious and vulnerable to erosion.
Amy Wax
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Approach
Erosion
Fragile
Identity
Immigration
Position
Precarious
Preserves
Realistic
Vulnerable
Western
Best World Country
Best World Will
Automatically
Nation
Conservatives
First World
Least
Maintain
Relatively
Serve
Status
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For some time, I've said this issue of comprehensive immigration reform is not just an issue about immigration or human rights or civil rights, it's about our economy. You take 11 million people from out of the dark and into the light. The think tanks have surmised that you are talking about trillions of dollars infused into the economy.
Antonio Villaraigosa
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Former Mayor Of Los Angeles
Civil Rights
Comprehensive
Dollars
Human Rights
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Reform
Tanks
Million People
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I think there are some in the Democratic Party - not all - but I think there are some people in the Democratic Party that think that the immigration issue is more valuable to them unsolved. That it gives them something to talk about, that they can go back to Hispanic communities and make unrealistic promises every two years and win votes.
Marco Rubio
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United States Senator
Democratic
Democratic Party
Hispanic
Immigration
Party
Thinking
Valuable
Winning
Communities
Promises
Unrealistic
Votes
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My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.
John Oliver
/
Comedian
Journey
Daily Show
Green
Green Card
Immigration
Lawyer
Months
Pretending
Ran
Relief
Said
Terrible
Three
Understood
Yesterday
Talk
Had
After
Show
He
Card
First
Daily
Got
Help
Him
Would
Immigrant
Level
Penn
Piece
Station
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If fertility drops much below 2.1 babies per woman, the population will shrink unless it is offset by higher immigration. For this reason, a demographic cloud hangs over China. It may be the first country to grow old before it grows rich. ... Its fertility rate is below two and its working-age population will start to decline around 2015.
Greg Ip
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Baby
Country
Immigration
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The way Americans most understand the history of Latinos in this country, a lot of it is being told now through the lens of what's happening with the immigration debate. While that's an important debate that has security and moral implications, in my view, there's also a huge history of Latinos in the United States that's never been told.
Ken Salazar
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Former United States Secretary Of The Interior
Country
Debate
Immigration
Implications
Important
Views
Happening
Latinos
Lens
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The Trump administration has been characterized by adhocracy during its initial months. The initiative limiting immigration is a case in point. The new policy was not vetted fully within the administration - indeed, then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates first read the decision after the text of the new executive order was published online.
Richard N. Haass
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Diplomat
Administration
Attorney
Decision
Immigration
Months
Online
Policy
Trump
General
Attorney General
Case
Characterized
Executive
Fully
Indeed
Initial
Limiting
Published
Sally
Text
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Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.
Michael Steele
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American Politician
Borders
Country
Illegal
Illegal Immigration
Immigration
Important
People
Secure
Begin
Business Important People
Address
American People
Concerns
Dealing
Important Business
Let Us
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