#migration

I think there are some in the Democratic Party - not all - but I think there are some people in the Democratic Party that think that the immigration issue is more valuable to them unsolved. That it gives them something to talk about, that they can go back to Hispanic communities and make unrealistic promises every two years and win votes. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#back #communities #democratic #democratic party #every

We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#america #create #how #immigrants #immigration

The way Americans most understand the history of Latinos in this country, a lot of it is being told now through the lens of what's happening with the immigration debate. While that's an important debate that has security and moral implications, in my view, there's also a huge history of Latinos in the United States that's never been told. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#been #being #country #debate #happening

Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#better #better place #bush #code #commonsense

We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#eliminate #further #immigration #issue #legal

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

#because #coming #enforce #illegal #immigration

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#democratic party #illegal #immigration #legal #looks

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#constituency #illegal #immigration #important #labor

I look through the window at the huge valley lit up with different colors. The town is cradled by the dark mountains. From afar it looks as if nothing can get in or out, but judging by the stillness of the view it's as if the citizens have made peace with it and have settled without worry into their insular but protected haven each evening. There are people in the world, I imagine, who are born and die in the same town, maybe even in the same house, or bed. Creatures without migration: have they not lived a life because they have not moved? What of the migratory los González, moving from one place to another and marking every stopping place with angst? What kind of alternative is that? For once my father and I are thinking thinking the same way, sharing a similar yearning for our starting points to have been different, for our final destination to be anything other than the tearful, resentful arrival it is likely to be. ↗

— Rigoberto González

#imagination

These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... but you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#immigration #tolerance #food