Camila Alves Quotes

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.

It took me 17 years to become a U.S. citizen.

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

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process.

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.

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.

Citizenship obtained through naturalization is not a second-class citizenship.

I still have a Japanese passport. I haven't become an American citizen, and I am worried about getting deported every day.

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.

We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

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

After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.

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

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.

It takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It's what's in our souls.

I doubt if most native born Americans could pass the Citizenship test required of immigrants without a lot of hard study.

The 1986 act didn't turn illegal immigrants into citizens on the spot. It granted temporary resident status only to those who could prove they had resided continuously in America for five years. After 18 months, their status could be upgraded to permanent residency, and only after another five years could they become U.S. citizens.

I plan on becoming an American citizen and bringing over my family.

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one of these kids. He's wrapped up in a red bullfighter's cape. And you've got to decide what we're gonna do with Superman.

I was born here. My children were born here. What the hell do I have to do to be called an American?

The reason we have to close the back door of illegal immigration is so that we may keep open the front door of legal immigration.

There is no such thing as free immigration. Every self-governing nation is going to determine what sort of people it will admit through its boundaries.