Thoughts for Sunday

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. - James Madison

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

There was a time when we [the U.S.] had completely unrestricted immigration, when anybody could come to these shores and the motto on the Statue of Liberty had some real meaning. This was a country of hope and of promise for immigrants and their children, and as many as a million immigrants a year came in 1906 and '07 and '08. By 1914, roughly a third of the population was foreign-born or the immediate descendants of foreign-born...The fact that year after year hundreds of thousands of people left the countries of Europe to come to this country was persuasive evidence that they were coming to improve their lot, not to worsen it. - Milton Friedman

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens. - Thomas Sowell

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. - Jack Paar

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