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All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in

PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

3.8 · 39 votes · 167 reads

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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to mak

PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

3.3 · 23 votes

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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

3.4 · 47 votes

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Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

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BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

3.5 · 51 votes

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I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.

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Hillary Clinton

PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

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I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

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PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

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If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.

William J. Clinton

PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

3.0 · 47 votes

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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

5.0 · 52 votes

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Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staf

EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

3.9 · 42 votes · 111 reads

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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Barack Obama
PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century
3.7 · 26 votes · 190 reads
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Next, we will create a modern immigration law.
Gerhard Schroder
PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century
3.6 · 51 votes · 65 reads
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People have to stop employing illegal immigrants.
Hillary Clinton
PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century
4.0 · 25 votes · 179 reads
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century
4.4 · 49 votes · 193 reads
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The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
Barack Obama
PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century
3.5 · 12 votes · 8 reads
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The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
Bill Gates
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
3.3 · 30 votes · 124 reads
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There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama
PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century
3.4 · 22 votes · 82 reads
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This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.
Angela Merkel
PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century
4.8 · 19 votes · 61 reads
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We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.
Hillary Clinton
PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century
4.2 · 9 votes · 66 reads
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When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won.
Barack Obama
PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century
3.7 · 59 votes · 114 reads
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