Dongyun Lee

"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, 

are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Goni Montes

"I come from an immigrant culture. I’m only a couple of generations away 

from having been a servant girl myself."

- Caitlin Flanagan

Eric Drooker

"I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America."

- Sofia Vergara

Leonard Peng

"Immigration is a good thing, we should make that as easy as possible."

- Gary Johnson

Mark Summers

"Komagata Maru sailed, [...in 1914], carrying 376 passengers from Punjab, British India. Of them, 24 were admitted to Canada, but the other 352 passengers were not allowed to disembark in Canada, and the ship was forced to return to India. The passengers comprised 340 Sikhs, 24 Muslims, and 12 Hindus, all British subjects. This was one of several incidents in the early 20th century in which exclusion laws in Canada and the United States were used to exclude immigrants of Asian origin."

- Source: Wikipedia

Tyler Jacobson

"Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants."

- Stephen Ambrose

Kevin Jay Stanton

"Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship."

- Joe Baca

Chase Stone

"There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. 

People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal."

- Linda Ronstadt

Chris Gall

"A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration."

- Grover Norquist

Aytek Gurkan

"Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship."

- Sam Yagan

Thomas Ehretsmann

"I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. 

There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. 

Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children."

- Gloria Steinem

Eleni Kalorkoti

"With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. 

When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape 

for at least three to four minutes. 

They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war 

when you create that kind of ambiance."

- Pitbull

Charles Chaisson

"Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that."

- Annalen Newitz

Michal Dziekan

"Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner."

- Roger Mahony

Niklas Asker

"Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, 

we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform."

- Dave Reichert

Karla Ortiz

"We must do everything in our power to keep families together, 

and to use common sense in our immigration laws. 

Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law."

- Jose Serrano

Tran Nguyen

"But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, 

it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation."

- Samuel P. Huntington

David Palumbo

"Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. 

For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants 

to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; 

Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; 

Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans."

- Ami Bera

Gary Kelley

"Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, 

you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, 

and then you actually don't enforce it."

- Tom Tancredo

Ricardo Martinez

"Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level 

where natives would want the jobs currently taken by 'illegal aliens'."

- Thomas Sowell

Bill Sanderson

"...but oppression can beget nothing other than itself."

- Charles Dickens, 'A Tale of Two Cities'

Rudy Gutierrez

"As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, 

we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants 

that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture. "

- Bob Filner

Douglas Smith

"A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives."

- Jose Antonio Vargas