Nico Santos Quotes

DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers.

When you're the child of undocumented immigrants, you learn to keep your mouth shut.

I learned at a very young age that my parents were undocumented.

My grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. My great-grandmother, my bisabuela, carried him over the border in her arms.

It is erroneous and profoundly irresponsible to suggest that up to three million undocumented immigrants living in America are dangerous criminals.

If you're an illegal alien in Prince William County, I'd get out.

My father, who worked as a dishwasher, was especially anxious. He did not like being here undocumented.

Of all the questions I get asked as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, there are two - asked in various permutations via email, social media or in person - that chill me to the bone: 'Why don't you just make yourself legal?' And: 'Why don't you get in the back of the line?'

What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years?

I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.

For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on someone's back. I found out I didn't have the right papers - that I was here illegally - when I tried to get a driver's permit at age 16. But I am not 'illegal.' No person is.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

All across this country, undocumented immigrants are living in fear of seeing their families torn apart because of our broken immigration system. Many of those immigrants are children who were brought here at a young age through no fault of their own.

If I ran for president, the first thing I'd do is legalize everyone who's been here paying taxes, working, paying taxes. Mothers and fathers of kids born in the U.S. should get a green card.

Our friends, neighbors, and their families have been forced to live in the shadows out of fear of being torn from their families and deported from what is, for many of them, the only country they have ever known.

I hope that President-elect Trump will drop his unrealistic campaign pledge to deport millions of immigrants who've made their lives in this country and contribute to our country.

Within the Filipino community, everybody knows somebody who's undocumented.

I think any immigrant who comes to this country also knows somebody who is undocumented.

Bernie Sanders supports offering a pathway to citizenship for immigrants already in the U.S. and halting deportations for almost 9 million hardworking undocumented fathers and mothers.

My parents were desperately trying to become documented citizens of this country and tried very hard to get there, but to no avail.

My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older brother was also deported.

It is not 'dehumanizing' to call someone an illegal immigrant if he/she resides in the host country illegally.

I was an illegal immigrant.

There were many factors as to why I decided to come out as being undocumented. One of them is because I look the way that I look; I don't look like the 'stereotypical undocumented' person.