The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people.
Richard J. Daley
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Without immigrants, we never would've built this place.
Bill Burnett
I am here as an American citizen because of my family who were immigrants.
Julio Perez
Most of these new immigrants are Catholic, and many are very devoted.
Sean Dolan
We're very concerned that many immigrants are being taken advantage of and relying on these documents to their detriment.
Cheryl Little
We tiptoe on the issue. I don't believe in holding job fairs for illegal immigrants.
Jeff Weninger
I have to tell you, trying to distinguish between immigrants who have been here for two years or five years or more will be very cumbersome.
Ray Borane
The Hispanic community has been awakened, and they cannot take us for granted. These immigrants are hard working people, and they deserve to stay in this country.
Jessica Martinez
There are a lot of new immigrants: from Korea, India, Fiji. It's not what you'd call a naturally National area.
Judith Collins
Illegal immigrants are afraid to send in personal data as they can't be sure in whose hands it will end up ... and this may well have had an impact.
Jorge Chabat
This was a one-day deal. If immigrants decided to abandon their jobs for two weeks, that would definitely have an impact.
Randel Johnson
A lot of Latinos are first-generation new citizens, or second-generation children of immigrants, who don't have those deep roots of partisan attachment.
Harry Pachon
There's a huge redistribution away from workers to people who use immigrants. ... That's what people are arguing about.
George Borjas
It would be a bad thing to take out all the illegal immigrants. If you take them all out, (the economy) won't survive.
Diana Sanchez
I don't want my money to go to educating illegal immigrants.
Albert Barwick
What we're dealing with are the children of immigrants who drive a lot of these costs. Most of the children of immigrants are U.S. citizens. They are us.
Wade Buchanan
Undocumented immigrants do pay taxes, and they do contribute to the economic, social and cultural developments of their communities.
Peta Ikambana
Immigrants are contributing greatly to this state, and they want people to recognize that fact.
David Lubell
That's right. These are the suitcases that immigrants brought with them, ... Star Trek.
George Takei
If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in legally.
Angelo Amador
Our immigrants are very educated. All of them have college education, and they are used to studying everything thoroughly and attain excellence in everything they do.
Lyobov Mikityansky
Unless you are a Native American, everyone in here is the son or daughter of immigrants.
Cardinal Mahony
It's not fair, we're all a land of immigrants. Let's come together and give these people a chance.
Melissa Ozuna
Our position on that is that these are people who are demanding rights that they don't have any right to demand. We have immigrants here illegally, who are demanding that they be given rights that U.S. citizens have, when their first act in coming into this country was to break the law by coming in illegally. So, that's something that most Americans are angry about.
Susan Wysoki
We aren't a burden, we're a part of the economy of this country. The economy wouldn't be the same without immigrants.
Juan Ochoa
The proponents of this law could never cite specific figures of exactly how much [money] it is that immigrants are draining out of the system. It's a lot of hot air.
Walter Tejada
It?s easier to blame immigrants than to stand up against the entire system.
Michele Waslin
We should be teaching Canadian civics and values to new immigrants, and we haven't been doing that as a society.
Frank Dimant
All this does is create more fear and hostility toward immigrants in our state.
Kirk Martin
This report shows the war on terrorism became a war on immigrants.
Anthony D. Romero
I want to make it clear to those immigrants who are here illegally, we're not going to go around to factories (or elsewhere) … asking for your cards. … I don't want an immigrant here illegally violated by a (criminal) act of someone else, afraid to call the local law enforcement agencies for help. We will not deport you. We will go after the person who did the crime.
Andy Lee
I can think of hundreds of immigrants who have ended up in deportation hearings because of people like this.
Matt Bernstein
Nobody thought we could pull it off on our own as immigrants, as people of color — even the consultants we hired.
Saru Jayaraman
It was so fun. Both of my parents are immigrants, and now they have papers. I had to get out and support it.
Freddi Bautista
What it is, is the attacks on immigrants have gotten to the point where a community that has been very silent has found its voice.
Michael Dale
Immigrants are not felons. They are human beings.
Adrian Molina
The U.S. is still able to attract very talented immigrants from across the world.
Giovanni Peri
We march today because we are immigrants, we work hard and we love the USA.
Carlos Diaz
Half of the reason was for the situation with the immigrants and half was because we were suspended.
Valerie Lopez
Foolishly, the Korean government had failed to post diplomats in Mexico and Hawaii to protect its immigrants.
Wayne Patterson
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Avram Noam Chomsky
If all of the sudden all immigrants were asked to leave what would happen? Who would clean our toilets, who would pick our food? It would be a catastrophe.
Stanley Campbell
Coffee and doughnuts are great. But he needs to stop aiding and abetting illegal immigrants. That would be the kindest thing he could do.
Rosanna Pulido
These immigrants often don't speak English well and don't have much education, but they're physically capable. It's the first step in the ladder to the American dream.
Ralph Brown
In a nation of immigrants, the English language is the one common trait we can rally behind.
Mauro E. Mujica
Immigrants might see Republicans as hostile if the bill is passed.
Tom Scotto
We are here to support American values. America was built with immigrants.
Juan Gomez
Many of those founders were not only engineers but immigrants.
Carl Guardino
We're basically a land of immigrants. We are Hispanic, and we wanted to support the Hispanic community.
Benjamin Bequer
Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
Iris Chang
He's a true immigrant leader. He's been there for immigrants who feel they have nowhere to turn and no one to appeal to.
Fernando Mateo
Immigrants aren't criminals. They shouldn't be punished for living here and helping the economy.
Michelle Lopez
Immigrants are coming together in a way that we have never seen before, and it's going to keep going.
Jaime Contreras
What immigrants feel immediately is isolation.
Cecilia Johnson
[These figures] really reveal the growing economic influence of the Hispanic community. Hispanic immigrants are not just job takers. They're job creators.
Michael Barrera
I didn't feel like it was right for me to go to school, because my parents are immigrants.
Jose Santana
Their parents could not be legal (immigrants), so they are worried about engaging with the government.
Jordan Barowitz
They know the victims are vulnerable; they are illegal immigrants.
Bill Butler
We're the immigrants. We're the ones working hard in the sun, doing anything anybody else doesn't want to do.
Jose Perez
In my county alone, over 40 illegal immigrants are known to have died last year.
Lavoyger Durham
The spending of undocumented immigrants, as it ripples through the economy, accounts for a $5.4 billion dollars in the Chicago metro area annually.
Nik Theodore
When you deal with recent immigrants that come from countries that have somewhat of a corrupt police concept , they bring those same ideas with them and they view police the same way they did back home.
Richard Spruiell
I am not going to encourage illegal activity here in Massachusetts and I do not want Massachusetts to become a Mecca for illegal immigrants.
Kerry Healey
Sadly, today our borders are a sieve, allowing illegal immigrants to pour into the country.
Gil Gutknecht
People are eager to express their values as immigrants and also to show their indignation.
Maria Jimenez
We are studying here. We want to be able to work here. My parents are immigrants, too.
Maria Jimenez
Where would the economic well-being of this country be without immigrants? What would happen if immigrants all walk off the job? That's the point of May First.
Jose Oliva
Why are we here protesting? Because it's not fair. Americans aren't going to be able to do anything without us. We're the ones who are doing the hard work. We're the farmers. Immigrants are doing the work.
Laura Lopez
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