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"First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants."
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"These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... but you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained."
"Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state."
"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."
"Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable."
"While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will."
"The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores."
"The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation."
"You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it."
"The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year."
"America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts."
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"It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring."
"Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people."
"It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country."
"The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth."
"They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society."
"The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries."
"Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move."
"Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks."
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