Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.

In Tagalog, we call undocumented people 'TNT,' which means tago ng tago, which means 'hiding and hiding.' So that's literally what undocumented means in Tagalog. And that kind of tells you how Filipinos think of this issue, and really any culture, right?

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

If there's amnesty leading to citizenship, I'm going to vote against it again.

Everyone that've been here, working, living as Americans - just give them a green card.

Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.

A lot of our family was undocumented. My mom and dad were both super conservative. My dad had a green card; my mom was an Eisenhower Republican who did not approve of all the 'illegal people.'

Each Dreamer in our country is more than a mere statistic; he or she is a proud American in everything but official documentation.

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

I feel really strongly about immigration because my mom is... from Jamaica. She still has a green card here.

I've got a green card, so I can work there any time, but I hate reading about actors going to America, because it's not like that anymore.

We never have been closed to immigration.

I never thought to stay here without papers. I had visa. I travel every few months back to the country, to Slovenia, to stamp the visa. I came back. I apply for the green card.

I was an illegal immigrant.

Based on my experience as a prosecutor in Miami, illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing this country. As a prosecutor, I felt the burden of it. I think what's important... is for the state and the federal government and for local governments to work together to do everything possible to control illegal immigration in a comprehensive way.

I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.

She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.

Not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker).

Something is fundamentally amiss when you refer to a person as illegal. Bottom line. That's why we so easily talk about this like we're talking about plants or crops. These illegals. My God, man, it's so tragic to me traveling around this country, this country that is getting more and more Latino, and you hear people use the words "illegal" and "Mexican" interchangeably. Interchangeably. Without blinking an eye.

Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

I'm going to deliver a detailed policy address on one of the greatest challenges facing our country today, illegal immigration.