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The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his books. After he died, when I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave his books away, and his poems were lost.
Edward Hirsch
Old
Lost
Gave
Books
Sole
Backs
Immigrant
Poems
He
Were
His
Years
Died
Childhood
Literary
After
Grandfather
Grandmother
Who
Away
Copied
Presence
Jewish
My grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. My great-grandmother, my bisabuela, carried him over the border in her arms.
Eric Garcetti
Carried
Immigrant
Border
Over
Arms
Him
Undocumented
Grandfather
Her
If you had asked me growing up what a stylist does or what a magazine editor does, I would have had no clue - how do you research something like that when you are a first-born child of an immigrant who only grew up knowing doctor, engineer, and lawyer as careers?
Eva Chen
Me
You
Doctor
Engineer
Lawyer
Research
Immigrant
No Clue
Would
Magazine
Something
Only
Had
Like
Knowing
Does
Stylist
Editor
How
Up
Child
Grew
Clue
Asked
Who
Growing
Growing Up
Careers
Coming from immigrant Italian people, the one thing you do is work hard.
Frank Grillo
Work
You
People
Work Hard
Immigrant
One Thing
Coming
Italian
The One Thing
Hard
Thing
I was born in Hereford, England, in 1944. We moved when they had an opportunity to get a visa, about 1950. My dad always thought Europe was a bit too small for him. He wanted to see the United States... The typical immigrant story. He wanted a better life for his children, too. He always tried to get the visa, and it didn't come up.
Frank Oz
Life
Better
Opportunity
Thought
Too
Typical
Visa
States
Bit
Immigrant
Tried
See
Born
About
Small
Better Life
Had
He
Come
Him
Always
His
Up
Get
Moved
Children
Wanted
Story
England
Europe
Dad
United
United States
I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?
Friedrich St. Florian
Life
Great
Me
My Life
Country
Great American
Other
Other Countries
Immigrant
Dream
Would
Life Story
Excel
Allowed
Feel
Countries
How
Continuation
American
American Dream
Story
Really
Who
Many
It is not 'dehumanizing' to call someone an illegal immigrant if he/she resides in the host country illegally.
Gad Saad
Country
Immigrant
Someone
Host
Call
Illegal
Resides
I'm the first person in my family to go to college, and I'm an immigrant. My aspirations coming out of college weren't particularly lofty. I wanted a good job with a good company.
Geisha Williams
Good
Family
Good Job
Job
College
First
Immigrant
Out
Lofty
Particularly
First-Person
Coming
Go
Were
Person
Wanted
Aspirations
Good Company
Company
I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be, 'Oh, look at that guy;' I wanted to be part of the crowd. Which is a weird thing, because the more successful I got, the more out of the crowd I became.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Immigrant
Out
Guy
More
Crowd
Part
Weird
Weird Thing
Look
Became
Because
Got
Came
Fit
Oh
Want
Wanted
Biggest
Which
Biggest Things
Really
Successful
Thing
Things
The base of the party, the middle-aged white working class, has suffered at least as much as any demographic group because of globalization, low-wage immigrant labor, and free trade. Trump sensed the rage that flared from this pain and made it the fuel of his campaign.
George Packer
Class
Made
Free
Party
White
Pain
Group
Rage
Immigrant
Free Trade
Globalization
Because
Trade
Demographic
Least
His
Trump
Campaign
Labor
Any
Sensed
Middle-Aged
Fuel
Much
Working
Working-Class
Base
Suffered
In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.
Gloria Steinem
Women
Psychic
Group
Way
Immigrant
Women Are
One of the biggest things immigrant kids oftentimes feel is this big disparity between our parents and us. And our parents are staunch pragmatists, and I consider myself to be an optimist.
Hasan Minhaj
Myself
Parents
Big
Consider
Our
Kids
Immigrant
Staunch
Feel
Between
Optimist
Oftentimes
Biggest
Biggest Things
Us
Disparity
Things
Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.
Henry Louis Gates
You
Generation
Values
Though
Immigrant
Immigrants
My Generation
Could
Greatest
Were
Greatest Thing
Which
Really
Even
Thing
Raised
To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
Herbert Croly
Life
Prosperity
Opportunity
Alien
Independence
Immigrant
Promise
Economic
Economic Independence
Advantages
Been
Offered
America
American
Which
Converted
American Life
Who
European
Largely
In my essay for 'The Good Immigrant,' I write about how concerns about race and immigration crept up on me a bit because of how I grew up and my background - I was quite fortunate, really; I never got the rough end of the stick with a lot of that kind of stuff.
Himesh Patel
Good
Me
Immigration
Background
Bit
Immigrant
Kind
About
Write
Never
Stuff
Concerns
Because
Stick
Got
How
Lot
End
Up
Essay
Quite
Grew
Race
Really
Fortunate
Rough
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
Irwin Redlener
Control
Consistently
Immigrant
Factors
Disadvantage
Outside
Highly
Vulnerable
Due
Children
Grown
Level
Fragility
I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!
Jacques Pepin
Good
People
Good Job
Job
Gender
Those
Immigrant
Religious
Paris
Economic
Had
Come
Most
Well
Still
Very
America
Done
Golden
Story
Racial
Reasons
Things
Here
My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
James Altucher
Mom
Suitcase
Side
States
Immigrant
Had
He
Another
Years
Grandfather
Illegal
Who
United
United States
If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans.
Jan C. Ting
Technology
Will
Made
Automation
Immigrant
Jobs
Higher
Cheap
Smaller
Employers
Wage
Hire
Replace
Labor
American
Which
Create
Workers
Skilled
Number
The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population.
Jan C. Ting
Benefit
Our
Immigrant
Immigrants
Dream
Brought
Most
Were
Intended
Children
Act
Illegal
Who
Illegal Immigrants
Large
Population
Among
Here
Sympathetic
Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
Jan Schakowsky
Freedom
Experience
Opportunity
Important
Other
States
Immigrant
Promise
Ideal
Like
America
Represents
Communities
United
United States
Jewish
My own grandparents came to the United States as immigrants in 1912, and they lived for some years in Italian ghettos in New York. Most immigrant groups start in ghettos somewhere, and many of them never get out.
Jay Parini
Somewhere
Own
States
Immigrant
Out
Immigrants
Some
My Own
Never
New
Most
Came
Italian
Years
Get
York
New York
Them
Grandparents
Many
Groups
Lived
United
United States
Start
If an immigrant comes here, and they're willing to create jobs, and they're willing to contribute to our economy, we have to make it easier for the kinds of immigrants we want, because that is the past of America; that's our greatness, and that will continue to be our greatness in the future.
Jeff Greene
Future
Will
Past
Our
Easier
Immigrant
Immigrants
Jobs
Willing
Kinds
Economy
Make
Because
Continue
Greatness
Contribute
America
Want
Create
Here
Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.
Jeff Sessions
Failure
Alien
Criminal
Immigrant
Seek
Risk
Puts
Protect
Very
Sanctuary
Convicted
Communities
Who
Whole
When you come from an immigrant home, you're in a whole different world until you leave your house. In my teenage years, I had to learn to switch cultures the second I left my house and, when I came back, to go back to my fundamentals.
Jessie Reyez
Home
You
World
Teenage
Teenage Years
Back
Immigrant
Had
Come
Until
House
Learn
Leave
Came
Go
Years
Cultures
Left
Different
Your
Whole
Switch
Different World
Second
Fundamentals
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.
Jessie Ware
Made
Synagogue
Everyone
Immigrant
He
Cry
Ireland
Northern
Northern Ireland
Grandfather
Sang
Who
Apparently
Lived
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