Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
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Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.
America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'
The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
We are indeed a nation of immigrants. People who choose to come to America have always been one of our greatest sources of national vitality. They keep our economy strong and our communities dynamic. They are some of our greatest patriots.
Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.
In U.S. discourse, immigrants are mostly represented as less than human, a policy problem, or as just that, a category, and categories are prisons.
Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
Immigrants have historically been an entrepreneurial bunch.
Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
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