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Immigration Quotes
"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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"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."
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"I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected."
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"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."
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"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."
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"Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing."
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"I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America."
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"First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants."
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"As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow."
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"The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation."
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"Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs."
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"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."
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"It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here."
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"The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores."
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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."
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"Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable."
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