#immigrant

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

— George J. Mitchell

#immigrant #lebanon #mother #old #she

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#area #birth #boston #died #either

A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#border #brush #cameras #censors #crossing

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#border patrol #conditions #dangerous #detect #does

There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#exporting #government #illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrants

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could. ↗

— Robert Plant

#every #every night #i #immigrant #life

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#immigrants #nation #states #united #united states

In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#five #grown #hit #immigrant #increase

We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#border #curtail #flow #illegal #illegal immigrants

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#i #immigrants #jobs #know #like