“The question today is the same as it was 150 years ago: Are we afraid of competition or courageous enough to embrace it in all of its dimensions? Do we understand that we need new Americans to keep America vital?”

Rudolph Giuliani, Mayor of New York City, The Wall Street Journal, January 9, 1997

“Why this many? Why these particular immigrants? Immigration has changed America in a radical and rapid way, unprecedented in history…Americans have the right to insist the government stop shifting the racial balance.”                  

Alien Nation, Peter Brimelow, USA Today, June 30, 1995

“America has provided more opportunity for more people than any other nation ever, and has benefited immeasurably. Yet our immigration policy is becoming more and more restrictive. Frequently, the most vocal opponents of American immigration are people who are only second-or third generation Americans themselves. It is as if they have forgotten their history.”

John Borden, International Institute of Minnesota, Star Tribune, July 4, 1997

“Immigrants are seen as a threat to job opportunities. When you’re looking to survive, anyone who’s a newcomer is seen as a threat.”

 Jeffrey Tapia, Director of Latin American Association, USA Today, June 30, 1995

“Legal immigrants … have long come to America seeking a fair chance to contribute and, in the process, have enriched our culture and strengthened the nation.”

George Soros, The New York Times, October 2, 1996

“Now we’re coming at immigration from a new perspective—what’s in the best interest of American CITIZENS. Then national interest is the interest of the majority of America, not the interest of those seeking to come here or their relatives.”

Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, USA Today, June 30, 1995

“They (immigrants) don’t have values anymore; nobody wants to work … they don’t want to start from the bottom and come up.”

Robert Dublin, Brooklyn, USA Today, July 5, 1995

“My biggest gripe (about Hispanic immigrants in Texas) is that they don’t want to talk American. I say, that if they want to talk Mexican and not American, they should go back to Mexico.”

Retired Minnesotan, “winter Texan,” conversation July 3, 1995