Blase J. Cupich Quotes

Here in Minnesota, we don't only welcome immigrants; we send them to Washington.

I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country.

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.

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.

I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

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.

We are a nation of immigrants. It is immigrants who brought to this land the skills of their hands and brains to make it a beacon of opportunity and of hope for all men.

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.

For a round hundred years it was a national ideal that the United States should be the asylum for the poor and the oppressed of every land. This very early came to be known as the "traditional" American attitude towards immigration.

I can understand the value of the immigrant experience and that we have become the nation that we are because people like my grandmother were able to make a life in this country.

Now and forevermore, I'm going to stick up for immigrants, and I'm going to stick up for Hispanic people and their rights. I feel like that's just my job.

The IIP had to be folded up by the Harper Conservatives after it became clear - and as it took the 'South China Morning Post's Ian Young to reveal - that Canada's ragged refugee-class immigrants had contributed more to Revenue Canada than the IIP's big-spender immigrant investors did over the life of the program.

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

We've got to do everything we can to speak to and protect our immigrant communities.

In Los Angeles and other cities, being around immigrants is inspiring. They are touching the American Dream and reminding you how much you take it for granted.

We are a country of immigrants who have built this great nation, but it is legal immigration that we should be recognizing and encouraging.

We need to be investing in resources, like Women Step Forward, to provide immigrants with trusted information about their rights and options.

Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country.

I can understand why immigrants would want to bring the rest of their extended family here, including older ones who will benefit from our health-care system.

I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law.

Legal immigration is a much tougher group of people to stereotype and to identify as potential new Democrat voters.

Immigration is not an issue that I read about in the newspaper or watch a documentary on PBS or CNN. It's an issues I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants.

America is a nation of immigrants. We have to have a functioning immigration system.

In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!