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Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.
Antonio Munoz Molina
Dictatorship
Thirties
Jews
Seventies
Immigrants
Had
Go
Exile
Austria
Germany
Children
Spain
Again
Grandchildren
Who
Here
I will sit at the table and compromise with anyone in the name of progress, but there are things I'm not willing to compromise and negotiate on, and that is the rights of women, of immigrants, of workers, and of the LGBTQIA community.
Ayanna Pressley
Rights
Women
Progress
Will
Sit
Community
Negotiate
Immigrants
Willing
Table
Compromise
Name
Anyone
Workers
Things
Irrespective of our foreign policies, for decades, other nations and peoples could see, in the United States, a strong democracy that could maintain social cohesion, welcome immigrants of all backgrounds, and count on stable institutions.
Ben Rhodes
Democracy
Welcome
People
Strong
Other
Our
Backgrounds
States
Immigrants
See
Could
Count
Maintain
Institutions
Policies
Foreign
Decades
Stable
Irrespective
Nations
Social
United
United States
Cohesion
The nexus of Donald Trump's hateful behaviors and policies around Muslim people and immigrants comes together right here in Minneapolis. I knew immediately that the people I represent were going to be very, very scared and very, very worried for their safety.
Betsy Hodges
Together
People
Safety
Worried
Immediately
Immigrants
Muslim
Minneapolis
Hateful
Scared
Knew
Policies
Around
Were
Trump
Very
Donald
Behaviors
Going
Represent
Right
Here
There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere.
Bill Foster
Somewhere
Locking
Immigrants
Alternatives
Up
Than
Expensive
Them
Much
Less
Number
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.
Billy Corgan
Family
Class
Background
Immigrants
Were
Middle
Middle Class
Lower
We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.
Blase J. Cupich
History
Church
Country
Nation
Beginning
Nothing
Immigrant
Immigrants
New
Venture
Catholic
Catholic Church
Because
Always
Been
Very
Done
The History Of
Us
Nothing New
Help
Who
As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.
Bob Filner
Legal
Culture
Immigration
Remember
Debate
Nation
Congress
Our
Address
Ways
Immigrants
Must
Economy
Legal Immigration
Contribute
Much
Illegal
Illegal Immigration
Many
Hard-Working
We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.
Bob Menendez
Nation
Immigrants
Us
The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.
Bobby Jindal
Generation
Problem
Face
Consider
France
Immigrants
Riots
Countries
French
Still
Demonstrate
German
Where
Themselves
English
European
European Countries
Second
Recent
Third
Immigrants have historically been an entrepreneurial bunch.
Brad Feld
Immigrants
Entrepreneurial
Been
Historically
Bunch
I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
Brian Sandoval
Immigrants
Driver
Support
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
Camille Paglia
Style
Immigrants
Both
Maintain
Protestant
Pragmatic
Tradition
Encounter
Intellectual
Began
Scottish
Canada
North
North American
American
Romanticism
Plain
English
Assertive
British
Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.
Cass Sunstein
War
Losing
Enemies
Parents
Decency
Sense
President
Danger
Everywhere
Those
Ancestry
Immigrants
Finding
More
He
Performance
Judges
Trump
Mexican
Than
Current
Artist
Children
Whether
Grave
The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
Charles B. Rangel
Nation
States
Immigrants
Historically
United
United States
America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.
Charles B. Rangel
Nation
Immigrants
Born
Always
Greatness
America
Who
Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
Charles Kennedy
Success
Immigrants
Simply
Without
Provide
Afford
Hugely
Cannot
Skills
Britain
Women are the majority of immigrants yet the minority of immigrant employment visas; immigrant and native born women who work in the service arena - such as domestic workers - are not valued for their work, making pennies on the dollar compared to male counterparts; and, women are disproportionately affected by family reunification policies.
Christine Pelosi
Work
Service
Family
Women
Minority
Valued
Immigrant
Immigrants
Pennies
Born
Arena
Counterparts
Employment
Majority
Policies
Reunification
Making
Dollar
Affected
Male
Domestic
Women Are
Native
Workers
Who
Compared
Disproportionately
I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.
Christine Quinn
Important
Think
Immigrants
City
Small
Small Businesses
New
Economy
York
Often
New York
New York City
Realize
Really
Businesses
I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.
Christopher Walken
Parents
Own
Everybody
Immigrants
Born
Entirely
My Own
Had
Part
Almost
New
Come
Friends
America
York
New York
Europe
Including
I would give illegal immigrants already here a three-month grace period to apply for a temporary worker's visa. If they failed to apply within that time frame, they would be considered fugitives, and they would be found and deported.
Chuck Norris
Time
Grace
Frame
Considered
Visa
Immigrants
Would
Would-Be
Temporary
Three-Month
Give
Failed
Period
Within
Time Frame
Worker
Illegal
Illegal Immigrants
Found
Apply
Here
I have no truck with this notion that immigrants are to blame for all of the country's problems.
Chuka Umunna
Blame
Problems
Country
Immigrants
Truck
Notion
New York's food scene is truly unique because it is this wonderful melting pot where immigrants from all over the world have brought with them their cuisines and their ingredients.
Daniel Humm
Food
Wonderful
World
Melting
Melting Pot
Immigrants
Brought
Pot
Scene
Over
New
Because
Cuisines
Truly
York
Where
Them
Ingredients
Unique
My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.
Daniel Nathans
Freedom
World
Opportunity
Parents
Early Years
Wave
States
Immigrants
Seeking
Russian
Part
New
Came
Years
New World
Century
United
United States
Early
Jewish
New York has a strong focus on the migration of immigrants, and there is a crime element there and even an underbelly, but Chicago is a much harder and more brazen city.
David Eigenberg
Strong
Crime
Focus
Immigrants
City
More
New
Chicago
York
Brazen
New York
Much
Migration
Even
Element
Harder
The podcast by 'The Kitchen Sisters' celebrates the staggering variety of a society of immigrants via its food, from the Sheepherders' Ball in Boise, Idaho, through the favoured cuisine of Emily Dickinson to the unbelievable rituals of the great rural barbecue.
David Hepworth
Food
Great
Society
Immigrants
Rural
Unbelievable
Variety
Emily
Emily Dickinson
Kitchen
Through
Rituals
Idaho
Ball
Cuisine
Sisters
Via
Staggering
Barbecue
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