Migrants Quotes

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.

Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity

You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.

The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.

Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who illegal migrants are, where they come from. I always say Trojan horse. Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.

The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers

Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.

I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

Everybody who comes to the EU as a migrant is basically coming illegally.

President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants.