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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.

The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

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.

The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a more successful society. This narrative is so devoid of historical context that it should embarrass anyone beyond a second-grade education.

A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.

The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.

We are a nation of laws and 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.