Quotes with immigration

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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Erica Jong To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bob Filner As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Capper Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Bill Flores If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Agnes E. Meyer It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.
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  • Anthony Weiner 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.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-Hispanic. That's why Obama ignores the broad support for an immigration plan that would provide border security once and for all and then deal with the illegal immigrants who live here.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carl I. Hagen The immigration must be limited, that is, first and foremost the foreign cultural one.
    Source: About immigration, Islam etc. Interviewed in Aftenposten (13 November 2005)
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold The pro-immigration people are really having a fit saying that I don't care about the children.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bob Menendez There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bob Filner These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bobby Jindal We must insist on assimilation - immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell folks who want to come here, they need to come here legally. They need to learn English, adopt our values, roll up their sleeves and get to work.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein When President Barack Obama is trying to persuade Americans not to do something, he has a go-to line: 'That's not who we are.' Whether the issue involves discrimination, immigration, torture, criminal violence or health care, he invokes the nation's very identity.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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