As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

quote by Frederic Raphael
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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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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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We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

quote by Miguel de Icaza
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Migration

The big silver bird gorges them
as they migrate to the sun,
away from the winters gloom
and into sunshine and fun.
Hundreds wait in queues
waiting for their call
to migrate south for the winter.
Off to climates warm
the great birds soar across the blue skies,
to where ever their destiny lies
on their migration to the sun.

2 March 2009

poem by David Harris
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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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Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.

quote by Aaron Klug
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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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Loopholes (Free Verse)

Arizona citizens known as we the people
Did not want to pass the current laws in
Question…The legislative branch of government
Are thus known as individuals and have no
Right to create laws that the People are against…
Furthermore…The laws enacted are in violation
Of the Welfare clause of the Preamble in which
Is known as The People…In which agricultural
Crops and other jobs that depend on emigrants
For the welfare of The People who depend on
Said emigrants as essential to the welfare and
Pursuit of Happiness of The People… Thus any
state whom is not in accord with The People are
in violation of stated Clauses of The Preamble…

poem by Edwin Tanguma
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On Reading Of Racism In Ireland

I always feel disappointed when of racism I read
And when I read of it in Ireland I feel very sad indeed
For racism in society should never have a place
And people should never be judged on their colour or their race.

As the Land of saints and scholars Ireland was known Worldwide
And the Irish people suffered and their rights to them denied
But the Irish in their sense of fair play could take a certain pride
And for their human rights and liberty the sons of Ireland died.

Poor migrants from Romania their possessions weigh light
To live and work in Ireland do they not have the right?
They may come un-invited but their numbers only small
And the Irish too are migrants as history will recall.

I read it's the Irish media that fans racism's flame
If this be so of their bad work they must feel a great shame
They cannot say in years to come the fault was never ours
When they first used the noxious spray that poisoned all the flowers.

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poem by Francis Duggan
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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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Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

quote by Francis Parkman
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Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.

quote by Saadi
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It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

quote by Richard Leakey
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But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.

quote by Joseph C. Lincoln
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