Henry Pratt Fairchild Quotes

My own grandparents came to the United States as immigrants in 1912, and they lived for some years in Italian ghettos in New York. Most immigrant groups start in ghettos somewhere, and many of them never get out.

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.

My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.

We have a very positive ‘immigration problem’ in this country, in that the Latino community coming in, both legally and illegally, generally possesses a value system that is compatible with America’s value system.

Those who came to France came to find France, not to turn it into their country of origin. If that's what they wanted, they should've stayed in their country.

I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

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.

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.

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.

My parents were immigrants.

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

Nearly all of us came here [Maine] as immigrants.

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

We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.

Our forefathers increased and decreased the influx of peoples because America was building a melting pot and because certain ethnicities often brought with them certain securities and degrees of productivity.

I'm child of immigrants.

America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.

As an immigrant, I am grateful for the tremendous opportunities that this great nation has afforded me and my family. I am also aware of the ongoing challenges that immigrants confront, and understand that respecting law and borders is essential for keeping America strong.

I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.

Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.

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

Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration.