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There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do then they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.
madeleine albright— On illegal migrants to the United States from Mexico and Central America, in Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership (2008), p. 225
South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose just a couple of million years ago. The resulting flood of North American mammals across the new land bridge corresponds in time with the decimation of the native South American fauna. In fact, most large mammals generally considered distinctly South American... are all recent migrants from North America.
stephen jay gould— "Can We Truly Know Sloth and Rapacity?" pp. 390
The fundamental truth about globalization that it represents freedom for capital and unfreedom for labour is especially clear where global migrants are concerned.
david mcnally— Chapter 4, The Colour Of Money, p. 137
The fundamental truth about globalization that it represents freedom for capital and unfreedom for labour is especially clear where global migrants are concerned.
— Chapter 4, The Colour Of Money, p. 137
You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettos and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.
stephen harper— Stephen Harper, The Report newsmagazine, January 22, 2001
A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
— Salman Rushdie, in Hay Festival 2012: Salman Rushdie on security and The Satanic Verses]
