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" Ajax is a multicultural club, and we have found that many talented immigrant players quit when they reach puberty. So we wanted to tackle this problem with someone from the same background who had come through it. And that was Edgar Davids. During one of our fights, I pointed that out to him. But it had nothing to do with his skin colour. "

" A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds. "

" A lot of what I experienced growing up in the U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp. Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life. "

" America was and is the immigrant's dream. "

" America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us. "

" An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million. "

" As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country. "

" As an immigrant, my wish is that we fix immigration. At Sequoia, we've backed a number of exceptional founders that were born abroad but started their careers in the Valley. They've created immense value, but more importantly, massive numbers of jobs locally, nationally and globally. "

" As for my role models... you know, I'm an immigrant, so we didn't grow up with too much TV. My parents were like, 'You must read your books.' "

" As with the Pacific Gateway, Canadians were similarly hoodwinked by the Immigrant Investor Program (IIP). "

" As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. "

Jennifer Gilmore

" A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family. "

" Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit in cafes polishing your French by reading 'Le Monde.' "

Pamela Druckerman

" By the time I was 16, I was someone to reckon with. I was so eager to repudiate any connection with any immigrant race, I would go above and beyond. I was desperate to belong to something. That was my drive as a teenager. "

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

" Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us. "

" Coming from an immigrant background, where a lot of parents don't want their kids to be comedians, success was just showing my mom that I could make a living. I was like, if I can get my mom off my back, that was my success. "

" Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. "

" Donald Trump has shown no interest in working toward increasing the minimum wage, no interest in doing anything but immigrant baiting, no interest in doing anything but filling the swamp with a band of billionaires who are simply trying to help the wealthy. "

" Especially for Haitian immigrant parents, being a musician is not a job. "

" Even though I went to Exeter and Yale, and I enjoyed all the trappings of those places, I think at the same time - and maybe it's because I'm an immigrant kid and not white - there was always this other consciousness; that is, I was conscious of everything that was going on. "

" Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities. "

" Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it. "

" 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. "

" For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile. "

Alice McDermott

" Get involved in your neighborhood. That's how I got really, really committed to the immigrant rights movement. "

" However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment. "

Louis D. Brandeis

" I always saw my role as getting LGBT to support the immigrant rights movement - which they did - and getting Latino organizations to support the women's movement, for reproductive rights. So that's kind of the work that I've always been doing. "

" I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. "

" I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. "

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