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As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.


Spencer Bachus


#america #available #begun #border #cities

He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was no peace for men, only murder, cruelty, brutality.


James T. Farrell


#world-war-i #young-adults #men

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers.


Julian Castro


#because #called #deportation #dreamers #generation

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.


Joel Kinnaman


#became #because #between #came #community

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.


Timothy Murphy


#answer #encourage #enter #illegal #illegal immigrants

I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.


John Steinbeck


#heaven #land #migrants #men

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.


Ayaan Hirsi Ali


#chance #country #decided #gave #i

You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration.


Jan Brewer


#administration #amnesty #based #borders #bush

Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.


J. D. Hayworth


#illegal #immigrants #immigration #laws #legal

The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.


William L. Jenkins


#country #current #disservice #diversity #does