Sara Gideon Quotes

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.

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

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

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

The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

America has everything, why should they want us.

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.

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.

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?

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

I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.

We need the immigrants.

The new wave of mass immigration … reinforced the leftist campaign to destroy Christendom

The U. S.'s moral responsibility to accept immigrants is not unlimited.

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

I would be very distressed if we were to try to shut our doors to immigration in this country. I frankly don't envisage that happening, but I understand that there's always that tendency on the part of people who are here who, having come here four generations earlier, want to shut the door. And I don't think that's a good idea.

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

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

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

Massive immigration has only just begun. It is the biggest problem facing France, Europe and probably the world. We risk being submerged.

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

Immigration has always been a concept that inflames passions.

The closed-door policy [to immigration] is one of the root causes of our wars.

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