#migration

America is the last great goal of these migrations. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#goal #great #last #migrations #these

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#attempting #citizenship #doing #downloaded #had

There was always a big party on the night before anyone left for the States. They called it an American wake, because the whole community stayed up to keep the emigrants company through their last night on the island, just as they would have bidden farewell to a soul beginning the long journey towards eternity. There was almost no chance that anyone present would ever see the departed again ↗

— Cole Moreton

#family #ireland #irish #loss #family

God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#immigration #love #unconditional-love #love

Racism. . . . fuelled by bitter assertions that no immigrant ever has the least respect for the environment in his adopted country because he never really believes it's his. ↗

— James Hamilton-Paterson

#respect

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#birds #field #force #government #men

Governor Romney is a real hardliner on illegal immigration. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#governor romney #illegal #illegal immigration #immigration #legal immigration

It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#already #among #anything #assimilation #bill

We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#caused #countries #creating #flood #great

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration. ↗

— John Edwards

#benefits #comes #couples #deserve #done