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Could be off one of your own boats, Lavette," Whittier said. "The crab I mean." Whittier was hostile, contriving his hostility in witless remarks. Dan said nothing, only thinking that if this small, pompous, foolish man, so uninformed about the essence of his own business, was a measure of the hundred tycoons who ruled the hills of San Francisco, then his own way up would be none too difficult. It came down to money; if you had money, you functioned and you could do without guts or brains; and if you had money, you saw a girl like Jean Sheldon more than once, more than by accident.


Howard Fast


#the-immigrants #business

I wonder if my father, given the chance, would have wished to go back to the time before he made all that money, when he just had one store and we rented a tiny apartment in Queens. He worked hard and had worries but he had a joy then that he never seemed to regain once the money started coming in. He might turn on the radio and dance cheek to cheek with my mother. He worked on his car himself, a used green Impala with carburetor trouble. They had lots of Korean friends that they met in church and then even in the street, and when they talked in public there was a shared sense of how lucky they were, to be in America but still have countrymen near.


Chang-rae Lee


#korean #change

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.


Howard Fast


#the-immigrants #family

We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things.


Jan Brewer


#any #arizona #cannot #care #costs

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.


William H. Wharton


#dread #emigrants #held #indians #mexican

People have to stop employing illegal immigrants.


Hillary Clinton


#illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrants #people #stop

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


#barack #barack obama #brought #children #college

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.


Billy Corgan


#class #class background #family #i #immigrants

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.


Elton Gallegly


#addition #average #billion #california #emergency

I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable and yet still enables us to get a crop out of the ground in south Georgia.


John Linder


#accountable #believe #crop #employers #enables






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