Quotes for All
I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined. Gail Collins
For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver’s license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it’s crucial that everybody have a citizen’s stake in the nation’s welfare. Gail Collins
You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as Mexico, an end to immigration. You just won’t. The question is, if you make it humane and if you make it regulated. It’s much better for an American worker to compete against a … Read more
Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day – the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America? Evgeni Kostitsyn
People associate farmworkers with illegal immigrants, and that’s really not the case. Eva Longoria
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story. Eugene Jarecki
To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for – that he was in favor of amnesty. Eugene Jarecki
Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English. Ernest Istook
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America’s strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds. Ernest Istook
I’ve written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I’ve written about our criminal justice system, and how it treats the victims of crime. I’ve been working for years now on a book about prisons in America, and I’ve been going into prisons … Read more