#migration

We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#broken #dependency #education #feet #foster

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

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#dwell #emigration #intention #length #subject

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration. ↗

— Lou Barletta

#elected #elected officials #failed #federal #federal government

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

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#crime #humor #immigration #politics #punishment

I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father sees you, how strong and necessary he thinks you are. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #westward-migration #home

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#immigration #equality