Deb Haaland Quotes

People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.

Indians are immigrants like everyone else, they just came earlier

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

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.

All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants.

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

I have never been in harmony with the proposition to apply the educational test [to immigrants]. If that test had been applied two hundred years ago I have ancestors who never would have gotten in.

We are, of course, a nation of immigrants, but some of us too often forget that fact. Sometimes we forget that the question isn't when we came here, but why we came here.

Too many people are willing to turn their backs on our immigrant past.

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

We say this is a land of immigrants, and we forget that this was a land that belonged to people. And those of us who are new immigrants and those of us who come from generations of immigrants have to realize we are not that much different from one another.

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

You can’ t be a national party in America and be perceived as an anti-immigration party.

We must come up with new immigration laws to … show that we are a compassionate nation of immigrants.

America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.

It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.

All asylum seekers at our border should remind us that we are a nation of immigrants and that we were once strangers at the border.

A lot of people forget that Americans are immigrants. People are forgetting that, to where people have this attitude, 'We're Americans, go back to your country. Go back. This is a free country.' I always heard that growing up. I always heard that.

America is a country of immigrants. It's what makes America unique.

There isn't anybody I won't talk to about immigration - at least once.