immigration

Thursday 28th of March 2024

2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason our borders are insecure Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
2018 midterm elections I don't want to say the Army is being used as props, but instead of “move out,” the commanding officer now says, “Places! Places everyone!” Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Nov. 2, 2018, on Trump deploying up to 15,000 troops on the Mexican border to stare down refugess fleeing violence in Honduros  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Afghanistan War Fuck that we don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam; Nixon and Kissinger got away with it. citation Joe Biden, responding to a question about America's moral obligation to evacuate interpreters and other Afghans who trusted and worked for the U.S. government in Afghanistan, thereby delaying the government's planning for an evacuation for months © 2022 Kwiple.com
Afghanistan War More Americans cared about the country than the Biden administration had accounted for in its political calculations. Most of these Americans were in their 30s or 40s — the generation that came of age with the 9/11 wars, now reaching a calamitous end. Helping Afghans escape would become a way to avoid succumbing to a sense of waste and despair and helpless rage. citation George Packer, Atlantic Monthly, March 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Afghanistan War The paradox of being a refugee is that the more likely you are to have a valid claim for asylum in any given country, the less likely you are to be able to travel there: Afghanistan has the worst passport in the world when it comes to visa-free travel, a direct result of producing so many refugees. citation Matthieu Aikins, New York Times, February 14, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Afghanistan War “The State Department always insists that we we have to play by the rules,” Representative [Tom] Malinowski, who once served in it, told me. The department celebrates Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who forged passports to save Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. “But if any State Department employee tried to pull what Raoul Wallenberg did, he'd be fired in three seconds.” This was the thinking of the period before the August evacuation. “And then, for two glorious weeks, we threw out the rules.” Now the department is back to its risk-averse, pre-August thinking, with an obstacle for every human need. “Bureaucracy is killing more people than the Taliban,” Mary Beth Goodman, the State Department official, told me. citation George Packer, Atlantic Monthly, March 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Afghanistan War The VA augmented its mental-health hotline in case Afghanistan veterans began to see their interpreters beheaded on social media. citation George Packer, Atlantic Monthly, March 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Aging This year, there will be more people over 65 than under five for the first time in human history. By 2060, the number of Americans over 65 will double, to 98m, while in Japan, 40% of the population will be 65 or older. There will not be enough younger people to look after so many, unless robots help (and probably an influx of migrants is permitted, too). Economist, February 16, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Aging We face the prospect of an army of centarians cared for by poorly paid immigrants. Seamus O'Mahony, The Way We Die Now © 2018 Kwiple.com
Alt righters say America was, until this last generation, a white country designed for ourselves and our posterity. It is our creation, it is our inheritance, and it belongs to us. Richard B. Spencer © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news Donald Trump can't tell a refugee from an immigrant © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say But the DACA situation is a very very, it's a very difficult thing for me because you know, I love these kids. Donald Trump, referring to the Dreamers © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say We are not even into February and the cost of illegal immigration so far this year is $18,959,495,168. Cost Friday was $603,331,392. There are at least 25,772,342 illegal aliens, not the 11,000,000 that have been reported for years, in our Country. So ridiculous! DHS Donald Trump, 5:44 AM – 27 Jan 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
By the numbers According to a 2017 report from the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, 1.53 percent of native-born Americans are incarcerated, compared with 0.85 percent of undocumented immigrants and 0.47 percent of legal immigrants. New York Times, June 22, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
By the numbers In the ten most dynamic states nearly 13 percent of the population was born abroad, compared with 6.7 per cent in the least dynamic quintile. West Virginia, which is the least dynamic, ranks last for immigration with 1.4 per cent of its population born abroad. Financial Times, May 24, 2017 [economic dynamism measures change in the number of companies, share of jobs in recently launched companies, labor force participation rate, etc.] © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of hours after the first U.S. election polls closed that the Canadian Immigration Services website crashed: 5 Harper's Index, January 2017 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers [T]he odds of being killed by an immigrant terrorist of any kind, let alone a Muslim immigrant, are one in 3.6 million. Vox.com, October 27, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
By the numbers On all three issues overwhelming majorities of likely Republican voters supported his [Trump's] positions: almost three quarters (73 percent) favored banning Muslims from entering the US, 90 percent favored identifying and and deporting illegal immigrants as quickly as possible, and 85 percent favored building a wall on the Mexican border. Ronald B. Rapoport, Alan I. Abramowitz, and Walter J. Stone, New York Review of Books,  June 23, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage of immigrants seeking asylum who are successful in an Atlanta Court: 2 In a New York City court: 84 Harper's Index, January 2017 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Rank of the United States in 2014 among countries in which expats most want to live: 5 In 2017: 43  Harper's Index, December 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Capitalists say The only training worth paying for is paying your current job holders to train their H-1B replacements © 2017 Kwiple.com
Car culture If we dont have barriers, walls – call them what you want – but if we don't have very strong barriers, where people can not any longer drive right across – they have unbelievable vehicles; they make a lot of money. They have the best vehicles you can buy. They have stronger, bigger, and faster vehicles than our police have, and than ICE has, and than Border Patrol has. So they're pretty good at that. Donald Trump on migrants crossing the southern border © 2019 Kwiple.com
Children To target these young people is wrong – because they have done no wrong. It is self-defeating – because they want to start new businesses, staff or labs, serve in our military, and otherwise contribute to the country we love. And it is cruel. … Kicking them out won't lower the unemployment rate, or lighten anyone's taxes. or raise anyone's wages. Barack Obama, on Trump ending the 'Dreamers' program offering legal protections to uncdoumented immigrants who were illegally brought here by their parents when they were children © 2017 Kwiple.com
Crime Americans have long believed that immigrants are more likely than natives to commit crimes and that rising immigration leads to rising crime. This belief is remarkably resilient to the contrary evidence that immigrants are in fact much less likely than natives to commit crimes. National Academies of Science Engineering Medicine, The Integration of Immigrants  into American Society  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can't. If we had a Wall, they wouldn't even try! Donald Trump, 10:30 AM - 29 Dec 2018 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the “bad” would rush into our country during that week. A lot of bad “dudes” out there! Donald Trump, tweet defending issuing his executive order banning Muslims from entering the U.S. without vetting it or informing affected agencies first © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say If we have to close down our government, we're building that wall. We're going to have our wall. The American people voted for immigration control. We're going to get that wall. Donald Trump, Phoenix rally, August 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now 85 years old and after more than 50 years of admirable service to our nation, he is [a] worthy candidate for a Presidential pardon. White House press release announcing — prior to Arpaio's sentencing, without him having shown remorse for his crimes, and without the standard prior review  by the Department of Justice — that Trump granted a full pardon to Joe Arpaio, the virulently xenophobic and racist deposed sheriff of Maricopa Country, Arizona, who was convicted of contempt of court for refusing to comply with a judge's order for 17 months to stop racially profiling Latinos, which he did for 24 years as a thug with a badge © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less. But they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great- grandsons, great-granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land. Ben Carson, who thinks slaves were immigrants who came here searching for the American Dream © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say We can't take you anymore. We can't take you. Our country is full.  Donald Trump, to Latin American immigrants and asylum seekers © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say When you're working for Hillary [Clinton], she wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. That's what could happen. You triple the size of our country in a week. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Elites When elites leave their homelands, they typically go to stable countries with long-term horizons. In good times, the rich want a weak state with low tax and little regulation, but in bad times they prefer strong states. That's why the countries with the highest influx of foreign brains per capita are Aus- tralia, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Canada, according to the Fund for Peace. The safe haven of the American super- -rich in case the US collapses is social democratic New Zealand. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, July 29, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Elites say Export factories, import workers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Entrepreneurs From Andrew Carnegie, who was born in Scotland, to Andy Grove of Intel from Hungary, or Sergey Brin of Google from Russia, foreign-born entrepreneurs are as American as pizza and bagels. Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Fashion I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?  Message on the back of the jacket worn by Melania Trump on fligthts between Washington, DC and McAllen, Texas, where she visited a detention facility for migrant children separated from their parents © 2018 Kwiple.com
Fearmongers say If you want to protect criminal aliens – VOTE DEMOCRAT. If you want to protect Law-Abiding Americans – VOTE REPUBLICAN! Donald Trump, 6:46 PM – 3 Nov 2018 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Food “Food doesn't grow here anymore,” [Ana] Jorge Jorge said. “That's why I would send my son north.” Guatemalan woman whose two sons died of malnutrition-related diseases, commenting on her third son. Quoted by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, June 5, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Fright wingers say The world is a mess. The world is as angry as it gets. What, you think this is going to cause a little more anger? The world is an angry place. Donald Trump, on suspending immigration from some Muslim countries © 2017 Kwiple.com
Globalization We see repeatedly that when people anywhere are desperate, people everywhere are at risk. In a world where pandemic disease spreads from one continent to another in the span of a few hours, where terrorist attacks are more random and frequent, and where political crises trigger mass migration, it is in our collective interest to fight against the daily reality of poverty, sickness and frustration. Bill and Melinda Gates, Wall Street Journal, September 16-17, 2017 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We want family separation. Anna Paulina Luna © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say What I would tell Bibi is that Israel has the right and the responsibility to defend itself. I would tell him to smoke those terrorists on the southern border. And I would tell him as president of the United States, I'll be smoking the terrorists on our southern border. Vivek Ramaswamy, when asked during the November 8, 2023, Republican presidential debate what advice he would give Benjamin Netanyahu about Israel's ongoing war with Hamas © 2023 Kwiple.com
Gun violence What – are you kidding me? I'm about to fly to Paris and shoot ‘em in the head myself! Michele Fiore, Republican Nevada Assemblywoman, explaining why she didn't sign a statement by Republicans in the state assemby opposing resettling Syrian refugees in the state © 2015 Kwiple.com
Immigration As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible open borders betrayal of America. I’ll fight it all the way. A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they’re blaming it on me.  I say, that’s OK. Please blame it on me.  Please. Donald Trump, January 28, 2024, proudly trying to block a bipartisan Senate border security bill that gives Republicans every border security provision they've been  clamoring for for years without providing a path to citizenship for immigrsnts already here, because he believes border security will be a winning issue for him in the 2024 election © 2024 Kwiple.com
Immigration Denied as a matter of discretion for security-related reasons. Text of a form letter sent by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services to Iraqis applying for a visa after risking their lives for years by serving Americans in Iraq as drivers, translators, etc. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Immigration Economists will argue that a slow-growing population needs more immigrants to sustain the growth of its labor force. But a population is a citizenry as well as a labor force, and when it grows slowly, it can less easily assimilate newcomers. Immigration is to natural population increase as wine is to food: a good complement, a bad substitute. David Frum, Trumpocracy © 2019 Kwiple.com
Immigration Germany has taken in roughly 800,000 Syrian refugees in the past two years. The US has taken in fewer than 20,000. On a per capita basis, therefore, Germany has absorbed 160 times more refugees than the country that was built on immigrants. Edward Luce © 2017 Kwiple.com
Immigration I don't want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas. Karl Rove, justifying George W. Bush's amnesty immigration plan © 2016 Kwiple.com
Immigration I had a popular commentator four weeks ago that I talked to that told me flat out, before they saw any of the contents of the bill, any of the contents, nothing was out at that point, that if you try to move a bill that solves the border crisis during this presidential year, I will do whatever I can to destroy you, because I do not want you to solve this during the presidential election. By the way, they have been faithful to their promise and have done everything they can to destroy me. James Lankford, February 7, 2024, conservative Republican senator who negotiated a border security bill with Democrats © 2024 Kwiple.com
Immigration Immigration is religion’s last, best prayer in England. Muslims and west African Christians are among those bucking the native trends towards secularisation. The quandary for conservatives could not be more awkward. Is a nation of non-Christian faith (and where Christian, often non-Anglican) better than a godless one? What in the end matters more, a citizenry that looks and sounds familiar, or one that upholds traditional morals? Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, December 16, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Immigration In a sense you might distill the challenge facing liberals to a choice: Take more responsibility for restricting immigration, or get used to right-wing populists doing it for you. Ross Douthat, New York Times, September 23, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Immigration It’s a cliché that the US is a nation of immigrants — and a cliché that, for the past few years, has been just plain wrong. This nation of 330mn people managed to settle a meagre 11,000 refugees in the fiscal year that ended in September 2021, the lowest number in more than 40 years. Patti Waldmeir, Financial Times, April 2, 2022 [11,000 of 330,000,000 = 0.000033%] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Immigration Justice permits us to do less for would-be immigrants than we are required to do for citizens. But less is not nothing. David Miller, Strangers in Our Midst © 2018 Kwiple.com
Immigration Lack of familiarity apparently breeds contempt. Paul Krugman, New York Times, May 9, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Immigration Late last year, the US Census Bureau said international immigration into the US was at its lowest in decades. Net international migration had added 247,000 people to the population between 2020 and 2021, the bureau said, compared with a high of more than 1m between 2015 and 2016,  and lower than the net inflow of 477,000 people added between 2019 and 2020. Immigration into the country was already in decline before the onset of the pandemic. The number of visas issued by the state department's overseas posts fell 25 per cent between 2016 and 2019. Between 2016 and 2020, the number of visas issued fell by more than 60 per cent. Financial Times, April 9, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Immigration Plan to deny welfare to immigrants still alive headline, Grand Rapids Press, January 15, 1995 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Immigration The question is why Norwegians would want to come to America today, except as aid workers. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, October 1, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Immigration The secret's out. For Republicans, the border is a moneymaking grievance machine. And if we passed our border bill and fixed the problem, Republicans literally wouldn't know what to do with their days. Republicans killed the toughest bipartisan border bill that they have ever seen because they don't want to fix the border. They want to keep it a mess because they think it helps them politically. Chris Murphy,  the Democrat who negotiated the border bill with Republican James Lankford that Trump ordered Republican senators to kill, which they did © 2024 Kwiple.com
Immigration Shinzo, you don't have this problem, but I can send you 25 million Mexicans and you'll be out of office very soon. Donald Trump to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe © 2018 Kwiple.com
Immigration … though the United States  accepts more immigrants each year than any other country, the percentage of its population that is foreign-born is lower than in countries like Norway, Gabon, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates — none of which considers itself “a nation of immigrants.” Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Immigration To call America a nation of immigrants  is not wrong, either as a factual statement or an evocation of American myth. But that fact coexists with this one: Over the past century, the United States has deported more immigrants than it has allowed in. Since 1882, it has deported more than 57 million people, most of them Latino, according to Adam Goodman, a historian at the University of Illinois at Chicago. No other country has carried out this many deportations. Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Immigration Trump Highlights Immigrant Crime to Defend His Border Policy. Statistics Don't Back Him Up.  headline, New York Times, June 22, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Immigration We have some bad hombres here, and we're going to get them out. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Immigration What is Roe vs Wade? Two ways of coming to the United States. Joe Wong, Chinese comedian © 2021 Kwiple.com
Immigration When natives have lots of children of their own, immigrants look like reinforcements. When natives have few children, immigrants look like replacements. No wonder that, according to a 2016 survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute and The Atlantic, nearly half of white working-class Americans agree with this statement: “Things have changed so much that I often feel like a stranger in my own country.” David Frum, The Atlantic, April 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Immigration When people say they are angry about “immigration,” … they are not always talking about something they have lived and experienced. They are talking about something imaginary, something they fear. Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy © 2021 Kwiple.com
Immigration You have one party that's in favor of open borders, and you have one party that wants to secure the border. And all day long the American people are going to side with the party that wants to secure the border. And not by a little bit. Not 55-45. 60-40. 70-30. 80-20. I'm talking 90-10 on that. Stephen Miller, who, along with Jeff Sessions, concocted the family separation fiasco based on their shared belief that most Americans hate immigrants as much as they do  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say It's the refugees, stupid! © 2018 Kwiple.com
Liars say I'm … I … I actually do not know that, sir, but I imagine that is the case. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security,  answering Sen. Patrick Leahy, who asked her, “Norway is a predominantly white country, isn't it?,” after she claimed President Trump wants more immigrants from Norway rather than Haiti and African countries because they're more skilled and after he reminded her that being from Norway is not a skill © 2018 Kwiple.com
Liars say Obama had a separation policy, but people don't like to talk about that. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Liberalism In theory, one might argue that liberal, open societies should have open borders. In practice, tbat would rapidly spell the end of liberalism in most such societies, especially those with a high standard of living. Timothy Garton Ash, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe © 2023 Kwiple.com
Populism Demagogues don't arise by talking about irrelevant issues. Demagogues rise by talking about issues that matter to people, and that more conventional leaders appear unwilling or unable to address: unemployment in the 1930s, crime in the 1960s, mass immigration now. Voters get to decide what the country's problems are. Political elites have to devise solutions to those problems. If difficult issues go unaddressed by responsible leaders, they will be exploited by irresponsible ones. David Frum, The Atlantic, April 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Trump reminded them [Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller, who had suggested softening remarks about immigrants], the crowds loved his rhetoric on immigrants along the campaign trail. Acting as if he was at a rally, he then read aloud a few made up Hispanic names and described potential crimes they could have committed, like rape or murder. Then, he said, the crowds would roar when the criminals were thrown out of the country – as they did when he high- lighted crimes by illegal immigrants at his rallies … Miller and Kushner laughed. Washington Post, May 24, 2018, on an Oval Office meeting © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racists say Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? Donald Trump, asking about immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries  at a White House meeting on immigration, where he also suggested we should bring in more people from countries like Norway © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say DACA rhymes with caca © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Enlarging Fortress America at the expense of the non-rich is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Keep  'em  illegal. Subverts unions. Lowers wages. Raises profits. Increases dividends. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Self-deportation is the way to go © 2015 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Grandma didn't cross the border so I could be groped Placard, Los Angeles Women's March, January 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Hands too small, can't build a wall Placard, Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say I'm a dreamer but Trump's a nightmare  Placard, Washington, DC, Women's March, January 20, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Resisters say The ICEmen Cometh Referring to Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents on the hunt for immigrants and refugees © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Si no nos dejan soñar, no los vamos a dejar dormir. Carmen Perez © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say They tried to bury us They forgot we're seeds Placard, march against cancelling the DACA program, New York, September 9, 2017  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say They tried to bury us They forgot we're seeds Placard, march against cancelling the DACA program, New York, September 9, 2017  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Right-wing populists say Go home; you're not wanted here © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me — and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say This is not a Muslim ban. Supporters of Trump's executive order that “temporarily” bans refugees and travelers from seven majority Muslim countries from entering the United States, while allowing entry of Christians from there and not applying to majority Muslim countries from which perpetrators of terrorist acts in the U.S. have come, or to majority Muslim countries where Trump does business, such as Egypt, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates © 2017 Kwiple.com
Socio-economic mobility Immigrants are good at doing something difficult: leaving behind relatives, friends and the familiarity of home in search of prosperity. The economists found that native-born Americans who do what immigrants do — move toward opportunity — have children who are just as upwardly mobile as the children of immigrants. Peter Coy, New York Times, July 17, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. Pat Paulsen © 2017 Kwiple.com
State of the union c Citizenship for sale! c Green cards for as low as $500,000 No questions about the money No military service required No lining up behind the hoi polloi Unmarried kids under 21 get cards too c Act fast! c Limited to 10,000 buyers per year © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest America is a welcoming country. And under my leadership it's a welcoming country. Donald Trump --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest One of the things with the wall is, you need transparency. You have to be able to see through it. … I'll give you an example. As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don't see them – they hit you in the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It's over. As crazy as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall. Donald Trump, explaining why the Mexico border wall must be made from transparent materials © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Work's started on Trump's Mex big thing  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The children were eager to learn and were kind and in good spirits. Melania Trump, in a statement written for her by White House staffers and released on her return from an unannounced visit to a McAllen, Texas, detention center for unaccompanied minors from Central America © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I don't care if @realDonaldTrump wants to perform abortions in White House after this immigration policy paper. Ann Coulter, 9:36 AM – 16 Aug 2015 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I don’t care what the hell happens in this world. If President Trump gets reelected, the border’s going to be sealed, the military will be deployed, the National Guard will be activated, and the illegals are going home. Stephen Miller © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Joe Biden's five million illegal aliens are on the verge of replacing you, replacing your jobs, and replacing your kids in school, and coming from all over the world, they're also replacing your culture. Marjorie Taylor Greene © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The number of people that will be amnestied when I'm presifdent is zero. We cannot do an amnesty in this country. Ron DeSantis © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Since more illegal immigrants are rushing the border, more kids are being separated from their parents and temporarily housed in what are essentially summer camps. Laura Ingraham © 2018 Kwiple.com
Violence They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back. We'll consider – and I told them – consider it a rifle. When they throw rocks like they did at the Mexico military and police, I say consider it a rifle. Donald Trump, warning Central American refugees walking from southern Mexico to America's border they could be killed if they try to enter the United States © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Donald Trump, 8:02 AM - 24 Jun 2018, advocating suspending due process © 2018 Kwiple.com
Water There is not enough rain, so their only option is to migrate. Principal of a rural middle school in the Guatemalan highlands, where drought and winds destroyed successive corn crops, speaking about his students. Quoted by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, June 5, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Work I want to be an American so I can work, that is the only wonder here—work! Rodolpho, an illegal immigrant in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge © 2015 Kwiple.com