{"quotes":[{"text":"It may be that writers in my position,exiles, or emigrants or expatriates, are haunted by some sense of loss, some urge to reclaim, to look back, even at the risk of being mutilated into pillars of salt. But if we do look back, we must do in the knowledge - which gives rise to profound uncertainties- that our physical alienation from India almost inevitably means that we will not be capable of reclaiming precisely the thing that was lost, that we will, in short, create fictions, not actual cities or villages, but invisible ones, imaginary homelands, Indias of the mind.","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["diaspora","immigrants","nostalgia"],"id":31172,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"Whenever people talk in the abstract about the pros and cons of immigration, one should not forget that immigrants are individual human beings whose lives happen not to fit neatly within national borders – and that like all human beings, they are all different.How different, though? Different better, or different worse? Such basic questions underlie whether people are willing to accept outsiders in their midst.","author":"Philippe Legrain","tags":["country","immigrants","immigration","migration","politics"],"id":47794,"author_id":"Philippe+Legrain"},{"text":"If we want to set and enforce a limit on immigration, we have to be willing to say no to would-be immigrants who look a lot like our own ancestors, not because there's anything wrong with them, but simply because admitting them would exceed our legal limit.","author":"Jan C. Ting","tags":["immigrants","want","look "],"id":48549,"author_id":"Jan+C.+Ting"},{"text":"This unhoused, exiled Satan was perhaps the heavenly patron of all exiles, all unhoused people, all those who were torn from their place and left floating, half-this, half-that, denied the rooted person's comforting, defining sense of having solid ground beneath their feet.","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["exile","homelessness","immigrants","rootedness","satan"],"id":58751,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"There are a lot of Latinos who believe that allowing illegal immigrants to cut in front of the line ahead of those pursuing the legal path sends the wrong signal. The GOP needs to articulate that message respectfully but boldly.","author":"Angela McGlowan","tags":["path","believe","immigrants "],"id":59132,"author_id":"Angela+McGlowan"},{"text":"After all, we are all immigrants to the future; none of us is a native in that land. Margaret Mead famously wrote about the profound changes wrought by the Second World War, “All of us who grew up before the war are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.” Today we are again in the early stages of defining a new age. The very underpinnings of our society and institutions--from how we work to how we create value, govern, trade, learn, and innovate--are being profoundly reshaped by amplified individuals. We are indeed all migrating to a new land and should be looking at the new landscape emerging before us like immigrants: ready to learn a new language, a new way of doing things, anticipating new beginnings with a sense of excitement, if also with a bit of understandable trepidation.","author":"Marina Gorbis","tags":["change","future","immigrants","societal-change","society","technology"],"id":61186,"author_id":"Marina+Gorbis"},{"text":"Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biases","bigot","bigotry","blame","blame-game","discrimination","economy","immigrants","immigration","minorities","minority","minority-rights","prejudice","prejudices","racism","racism-in-america","racism","self-awareness","white-nationalism","white-privilege","white-supremacy"],"id":64766,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... But you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained.","author":"Zadie Smith","tags":["immigrants","immigration","tolerance"],"id":71390,"author_id":"Zadie+Smith"},{"text":"Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.","author":"Luis Gutierrez","tags":["immigrants","nation "],"id":79134,"author_id":"Luis+Gutierrez"},{"text":"An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court formed the kind of atmosphere you might find in Jupiter's red spot.","author":"Mira Jacob","tags":["immigrants","indians","life-and-living","united-states"],"id":81729,"author_id":"Mira+Jacob"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}