Even judges' children hear something about the world, they go to the Black Sea like everyone in the country. They look out and feel the same urge to go somewhere, feel it tugging at them from head to toe. You don't have to be particularly bad off to think: This can't be a the life I get. The judges' children know as well as Lilli and me that the same sky that looks down on the border guards stretches all the way to Italy or Canada, where things are better than here. One way or the other, the attempt will be made, whether sooner or later, in this way or that.
Herta MüllerTags: immigration
As I would learn later on, developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world -- those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt.
Alfredo Quinones-HinojosaTags: immigration american-dream
Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase "the good old days" has passed from cliché to self-parody.
Anna QuindlenTags: society morals self-deception prejudice class-warfare immigration crime cliches parody social-change xenophobia social-norms exclusion nostaliga
I did not come to this country for the terror from paramilitary," declared Voytek, hoarsely. "I did not come to this country for motherfucker. But motherfucker is waiting. Always. Is carceral state, surveillance state. Orwell. You have read Orwell?
William GibsonTags: immigration big-brother motherfucker
If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.
Herta MüllerTags: dictatorship immigration
Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.
Marina BudhosTags: family america immigration
آموخت که آدم به غیبت عادت میکند و این عادت به نبودن عزیزان از نبودنشان ناگوارتر است.
Marcel ProustTags: lost death immigration missing-someone
Illegal immigrants are to immigration what shoplifters are to shopping.
Jerry AgarTags: immigration
{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.
Andrea BouchaudTags: poetry college prison tears sad french immigration anger eyes france twenty nyc
All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against the next boatload approaching the shore. To defend one’s home and fields and ancestral graves against invasion seems a right. But to claim unique possession – to compound the fact of settlement with the aspect of a landscape into an abstract of eternal and immutable ownership – is a joke.
Neal AschersonTags: immigration
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