Jennine Capó Crucet Quotes

My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do.

I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

For the tidal wave of new immigrants Canada is more a land for the realization of private dreams than for maintaining a ... compact between founding races. No common identity was provided for the millions of new Canadian immigrants other than a week vision of mutual multi-cultural indifference.

Most immigrants couldn’t give a hoot about their welfare. These people risk their lives. They want to work.

If I were a Mexican, I would tell you, “Have you not enough room in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves.

Today, thousands of immigrant families are living in fear and being torn apart because Congress refuses to act.

Immigration has always been a concept that inflames passions.

“Illegal” should describe only an action, not a person.

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

I have to say that deporting people and calling them 'bad hombres,' then kicking families out with visa violations, upsets me.

I tell you, if I was in the same position I was in 1975, trying to leave a communist country and trying to live a free life, America is not the country that I would think about going to considering how many rights the GOP is trying to take away.

This country was founded by immigrants... I don't see Mr. Trump looking like an Apache, so all of us, we are immigrants.

I'm child of immigrants.

Immigration is important. We're a nation of immigrants.

When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.

I am a proud American, regardless of the fact that my parents were separated from me forcefully.

I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.

People are realizing if they jump across our border and they have a child with them they can raise their hand and claim asylum and they will be caught and released into the homeland.

Unfortunately, you need to keep Italian Roma in Italy.

My parents left Iran in 1979 and moved to France and then moved to the U.S. My brother was born in France and I was born in New York, and then we moved to D.C.

The overwhelming majority of Coloradans don't want Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States or Colorado.