Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.
Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.
We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.
I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.
Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.
I see myself as a transient, not an immigrant.