Mitch McConnell Quotes

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

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

Immigrants follow blindly leaders of their own race, are not moved by discussion, exercise no judgment of their own ... are not fit for the suffrage ... know nothing of the institutions of the country, of its statesmen, of its political issues.

We can't restore our civilization with someome else's babies.

I'm the granddaughter of immigrants.

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

The intelligence and prosperity of the American working man is endangered by the present immigration.

[There are] many vicious and inconvertible elements [within the] multitude of foreign immigrants.

Immigration has always been a political one … the group coming in has never been good enough for the people who had come in earlier …

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so.

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

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

The progeny of the immigrants of yesterday have always feared the immigrants of today would usurp their jobs and lower their standard of living. All Americans have been the progeny of immigrants except for those who were immigrants themselves.

The United States has never had a neat, painless way to add newcomers. But our most shameful moments have involved the exclusion of groups, often those that do our hardest labor: Indians, African-Americans, Chinese, Irish, Italians, Catholics, Jews, Poles, Japanese-Americans, Hispanics. America has stood proudest when it dared to stretch the definition of who “we” are.

America must be kept American

There is racism behind many of the [American] comments about immigration.

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 think it's important to be reminded that that's what this country is comprised of - people from other countries.

I wasn't born in Mexico - I was born in Nicaragua - but I know that, when somebody like Donald Trump says 'Mexicans,' he means all of us. He means anybody who comes from south of the border.

Throughout history, groups of Americans have attacked immigrants who fled danger and destruction at home and arrived in America hoping for the opportunities those of us born here are lucky enough to enjoy.

Like Barack Obama's father, Trump's mother was an immigrant. But Trump doesn't often bring up his Scottish ancestry on the campaign trail.

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.

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.

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these things.