Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.
Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
Nearly one-fifth of our fellow citizens are Latino. They are families who are impacted by our education system, by our economy, by our healthcare delivery, and by every policy we make here in Washington.
I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.
A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants.
Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.
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