Migration Reasons Quotes

If America oppresses, why do so many people risk their lives coming here to be oppressed?

Educational research shows that the pupils that perform the worst in schools in the United Kingdom are of Pakistani and Bengali origin. In contrast, most Pakistanis that immigrated to the United States did so for academic reasons—to take up a post in a university or to pursue a PhD—so the community that has emerged there is very different

Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm

I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.

I'm an American, and I live pretty well. But go down to Mexico, and a lot of people really don't. So what, we're going to blame them for trying to get out?

People are not trying to get into China, they're trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious reasons.

I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller country.

Louisiana is a place that you escape, not a place that you leave.

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

A Dominican kitchen worker in New York City can make more money than a Dominican doctor working in the Dominican Republic. Why should anyone want to stay?

I mean, if I was going to leave New England, it wasn't going to be just for the sake of leaving.

Migrants are essentially escaping from countries with dysfunctional social models.

Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

Migrants don't come to the United States because, as Ambassador Aponte argued in her press conference, of 'lies' told by smugglers that, once here, you can't get deported. They come because their countries have been destroyed by U.S. policy.

How do you reconcile the lifestyle between the United States and Mexico? One is a very prosperous country, the other one is somewhat backwards. I mean, I don't want to denigrate them. And people want to go from Mexico into the US because it's much better there. Mexicans also have a grudge against the US. Most of the Western US was Mexican territory once, but they prefer to being in the US, not Mexico.