Immigration

The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. ~ Leviticus 19:34

Immigration is the movement of people from one country to a foreign country. While human migration has existed throughout human history, immigration implies long-term permanent residence (and often eventual citizenship) by the immigrants.

Quotes[edit]

Solo voy con mi pena
Sola va mi condena
Correr es mi destino
Para burlar la ley
Perdido en el corazón
De la grande Babylon
Me dicen el clandestino
Por no llevar papel

Pa' una ciudad del norte
Yo me fui a trabajar
Mi vida la dejé
Entre Ceuta y Gibraltar
Soy una raya en el mar
Fantasma en la ciudad
Mi vida va prohibida
Dice la autoridad.
- Alone I go with my grief
  Alone my curse goes
  Running is my destiny
  To get around the law
  Lost in the heart
  Of the big Babylon
  They call me the clandestine
  For not carrying papers
  
  To a northern city
  I went to work
  I left my life
  Between Ceuta and Gibraltar
  I am a line in the sea
  A ghost in the city
  My life is forbidden
  Says the authority
- Manu Chao, Clandestino, Clandestino (1998).

We have problems with illegal migration, we have the problem of the Caucasus, we have a problem of ethnic crimes... the fact that our authorities hypocritically pretend that such problems do not exist leads to people discussing them only in the street, at the Russian March.
- Alexey Navalny as quoted in Moscow nationalist rally hears attack on Putin party BBC, November 4, 2011

Perhaps we should seriously consider whether we can continue to admit so many immigrants.
- Mike Harcourt according to Douglas Todd: Vancouver's housing crisis four decades in the making December 31, 2016

The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
- Leviticus 19:34 NIV

I maintain that the primary approach to solving the housing problem in the Greater Vancouver area lies in the immediate reduction and future control of immigration
- Art Phillips according to Douglas Todd: Vancouver's housing crisis four decades in the making December 31, 2016

*Far be it for me to question a decision my father might have made in the late-1970s, but we’re on a track to welcome more immigrants over time as our population ages.
- Justin Trudeau according to Douglas Todd: Vancouver's housing crisis four decades in the making December 31, 2016