Legal Immigrant

I am an immigrant
quisling with various flags
when I enter my hut
I wear my ego and listen to CNN.
I've wondered many times
about my lyric of thoughts
is it in my flag tongue...?
Or is it in my new found love
legal immigrant.

© Emu Getachew. November 2009

poem by Emu Getachew
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I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

quote by Marvin Olasky
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To see the world as whole

The whites in America were once
Illegal immigrants from Europe.
The whites in other than Europe
Were illegal immigrants.
Intrusions are due to boundaries drawn;
Illegalities are due to legalities framed.
18.10.2009

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

quote by Daniel Libeskind
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It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

quote by Bob Inglis
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

quote by Fareed Zakaria
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The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

quote by Charles Rangel
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

quote by Gary Miller
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I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

quote by Emanuel Celler
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I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

quote by Peter Jennings
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My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

quote by Arthur Rock
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It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.

quote by Roger Mahony
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.

quote by Gary Miller
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The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.

quote by Ellsworth Huntington
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Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

quote by Elton Gallegly
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We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.

quote by Miguel de Icaza
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We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

quote by Elton Gallegly
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Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

quote by Roger Mahony
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In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.

quote by Leslie Charteris
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I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

quote by Sidney Altman
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