Adnan Sami Quotes

I spend more time in New York than the Dominican. I play here, I live here, so why not become a citizen?

I'm not an American citizen, but I live in this country and eventually want to become an American citizen because I love this country so much.

My own wife is from the Philippines and came here legally to this country, and there are a lot of people that want to be part of this nation, and I want them to be part of this nation.

If you want to be part of the American country, then do it legally.

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.

Immigrants are integral to the strength of our nation. They deserve comprehensive reform that will provide a pathway to citizenship and ensure that families aren't torn apart.

I have dual citizenship.

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.

No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.

Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.

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.

Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.

I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.

Republicans say they want citizenship to truly mean something. Let's be equal-opportunity about it and test everyone, including those very Republicans and others whose forbears came here generations ago.

I am still an Indonesian citizen.

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

Our country is a country where immigration is history and it is a country where immigration is destiny.