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Immigrant Quotes

My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

Son Immigrant Engineer Who He Dad

It is inconceivable that releasing an illegal immigrant that could cause a tuberculosis pandemic here in the U.S. would ever be considered as a possible option.

Possible Immigrant Here Would Cause

I have immigrant, African parents. They would say, in their Nigerian accents, 'So you want to be a jester?' And I was like, 'I don't want to be a court jester, Ma. I want to be a comedian.'

Parents You Say Want Immigrant Like

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.

Experience Black American Immigrant

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

Caitlin Flanagan

Girl Myself Culture Immigrant Been

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

Grandfather Cry Immigrant Everyone

We're getting a very different kind of immigrant now, and it began as a specific plan to bring in lots of more Democratic voters, and it worked.

Plan Now Kind Immigrant More Bring

The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.

Journey Me Entrepreneur Immigrant

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

Great Identity Start You Immigrant

I know as a nation we are stronger because of our immigrant tradition.

Tradition Stronger Know Immigrant

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

Family Father Doctor Small Immigrant

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Work You Immigrant Hard Up Going

I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers.

Animal Me Spark Attention Immigrant

In the 1960s, my first-generation immigrant parents were gifted the olive branch of a blue British passport when working for the British Army in Cyprus. It completely transformed the Paphitis story.

Blue Parents Story Army Immigrant

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.

Mom Grandfather Immigrant Years Side

I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

People Society Details Immigrant Who

To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it.

Experience Black Understand Immigrant

Being an immigrant gives you so much courage.

Courage You Immigrant Being Much

All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.

American Immigrant Fiction Classified

Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.

Failure Risk Immigrant Protect Seek

Like Barack Obama's father, Trump's mother was an immigrant. But Trump doesn't often bring up his Scottish ancestry on the campaign trail.

Father Mother Trail Immigrant Bring

I'm a gay, undocumented immigrant; I have to be optimistic.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Gay Immigrant Optimistic Undocumented

When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

Law Law Enforcement Immigrant Laws

I became more interested in the idea of being an immigrant and particularly of being in a country you're not familiar with. And so I began reading migrants' stories. The fact that my father is Chinese - he emigrated from Malaysia when he was about 20 - may have had some bearing on my attraction to the subject.

Father Reading You Country Immigrant

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