Remember, remember always, that all of us... are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
John F. Kennedy

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.                                             
Jack Paar

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breath free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest tossed, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Emma Lazarus (inscribed on the Statue of Liberty)