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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
For a lot of children of immigrants, what happens is your parents want you to do something very linear that they can understand. I had an aptitude in sciences and never really questioned it.
When I eventually get my hands on Covington, its more than just a fight: it symbolizes so many other things. It symbolizes the attitude toward immigrants in this country and around the world.
If we go the direction that many of the leaders of this country want and close the borders and discourage new immigrants, then we are ruining the possibility of new ideas and new experiences.
I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.
Among immigrants today, it is increasingly fashionable to reject American exceptionalism in favor of multiculturalism. To pretend that this isn't happening isn't optimism; it's sheer fantasy.
I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.
I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.
Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.
I am a granddaughter of immigrants, put myself through college as a waitress, and I started my career as a computer programmer.
America is a nation of immigrants. We have to have a functioning immigration system.
I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.
And we'll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy!
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.
My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.
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.
America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
And they [illegal immigrants] will come back, but they are going to have to go out, and hopefully they get back.
I don't want our country to be like other countries in Europe in having a challenge to integrate their new immigrants.
I do not support amnesty. I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.
There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere.
The illegal immigrants are like termites. They are eating the grain that should go to the poor; they are taking our jobs.
It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
I want to stop the influx of new immigrants. This way, we can give those who are already here the opportunity to fully integrate into our society.
I am the son and grandson of immigrants. And I know that securing our borders is not anti-immigrant and we will do it.
This is a land of immigrants, and most come here for opportunity, a second chance.
I strongly support screening all visitors and potential immigrants thoroughly to prevent bad actors from entering the country.
We need someone who's going to govern on behalf of everyone in this country, including immigrants.
A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.
I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.
As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.
We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
We like to make the distinction between immigrants we want and immigrants we don't want. They all share one thing, and that's the work ethic.
I am against the policy which would promote the entry of immigrants into Europe, which cannot accept them.
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.
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.
Hawaii - the Aloha state - is built on the strength of its multicultural society, from our indigenous Native Hawaiian people to the many immigrants that followed.
The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.
The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.
Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
We must be clear: Donald Trump is lying when he conflates immigrants coming across the border with MS-13 gangs.
I believe that a limited quantity of immigrants, possibly through an Australian-style program on the basis of work qualifications, can be let in.
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
America is a nation founded by immigrants and built on the ideal that anyone can be an American if he or she believes in the principles and values of the Constitution.
There is no hint that Trump wishes to engage in or to foment violence against the enemies, such as immigrants, he has identified as undermining the American way of life.
There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants.
My parents grew up in a village where they didn't even have running water. They are first generation immigrants who are proof that arranged marriages can work, although I wouldn't want one.