President Trump's executive order creating a Muslim ban undermines the foundational ideals of the United States, a nation founded by immigrants.
Mike Quigley
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Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.
Barack Obama
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Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.
Michael Rosbash
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The Democrats cannot say that we stand with immigrants if that secretly means we only stand with immigrants in odd-numbered years or when southern Democrats complain.
Luis Gutierrez
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We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants.
Jose Serrano
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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.
Deeyah Khan
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I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.
Bob Menendez
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'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.
Annalee Newitz
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Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
Preston Sturges
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Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?
Thomas Sowell
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I don't like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, 'What are we gonna do about all these immigrants?' and they get a round the applause. I think, 'Well that's not a joke. That's just your biased opinion.'
Ricky Gervais
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Immigrants are illegal, since once they set foot on European soil, they have violated the law.
Marine Le Pen
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I think the narrative of people being caught between two cultures as immigrants is very harmful. It's exclusionary. It essentially tries to argue that some Americans are more real than others.
Ken Liu
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Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation.
James Surowiecki
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Our borders have got to be secured. You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants, it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration.
Jan Brewer
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And we'll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy!
Hillary Clinton
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To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.
Eugene Jarecki
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The wise decision by President Obama to grant some undocumented immigrants the right to remain in the United States for two years without the threat of deportation is already benefitting the country.
Eliot Spitzer
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America has long been the land of immigrants.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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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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Highly skilled immigrants are critical to innovation and are important contributors to economic growth in the United States.
Paul E. Jacobs
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We do have to watch to see how the foreign workers and immigrants are fitting in with our community, and you have to watch them mix so that you don't overbalance the numbers or the tone of our society.
Lee Hsien Loong
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America is a country of immigrants. It's what makes America unique.
Ivo Daalder
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All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
Jerry Saltz
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