Andrea Pirlo Quotes

For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.

I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.

I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.

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

Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.

Immigration policy should be based on what is good for America, not what is good for Mexico. Immigration to America should not be the safety valve for Mexico.

The reason we have to close the back door of illegal immigration is so that we may keep open the front door of legal immigration.

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

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

We might have some problems with some countries. Why should we not take into consideration the country of origin [in making immigration decisions]?

United States immigration reform would be a fair recognition of those [Mexicans] who live in the United States and are part of the dynamic U. S. economy.

I'm just trying the American dream. To work here in the U.S., you have to commit and be here. For many years, it was back and forth, back and forth, and it didn't work. But I'm always open to working in Spanish.

I think any immigrant who comes to this country also knows somebody who is undocumented.

Let me tell you who the immigration system in America does not serve. It does not serve you the American people.

I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.

There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America.

I hope I'll have the opportunity to debate how we reform and update our immigration system. I will relate my own story and that of the countless immigrants whose American Dream stories have helped build our country into the greatest nation in the world.

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.

Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.

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.

As you watch 'Documented' on CNN, I ask you, my fellow Americans: What do you want to do with me? What do you want to do with us? How do you define American?

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.