Mr. BRAUER: My great-great-grandfather, Frederick Brauer(ph), came to this country in--I believe it was 1837.
The undocumenteds I have known came to this country for one reason: an opportunity to earn a living.
About 200 years ago Hanson's distant "Australian" relatives came to this country with assimilation far from their minds.
When I came to this country from Romania, I first landed in Detroit.
"I came to this country not knowing the language, the people or how it is here, " Francisca told them.
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As someone who came to this country as an immigrant, she understands the shining values that America represents to the world.
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"As someone who came to this country as an immigrant, she understands the shining values that America represents to the world, " he said.
Some of you came to this country as young children, because your parents wanted to give you a better life in the land of opportunity.
The ethnic Chechen family came to this country in 2002, after fleeing troubles in Kyrgyzstan and then Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim republic in Russia's North Caucasus.
Please do not misunderstand: individuals like me came to this country for a reason, and are enormously grateful everyday for the wonderful opportunity to be here.
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And one business owner was a woman named Prachee Devadas who came to this country, became a citizen, and opened up a successful technology services company.
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From my immigrant grandparents who came to this country penniless and without a word of English, I learned what a privilege it is to be an American.
You all have your own stories -- you can sit down, Chryshann -- (applause.) You all have your own stories of how you came to this country.
Let me begin with a simple statement: Indonesia bagian dari didi saya. (Applause.) I first came to this country when my mother married an Indonesian named Lolo Soetoro.
"I say farewell with pain in my heart, but with the same hope that I came to this country with to make sure my wife and my son have a better future, " he said.
This from the author earlier of Dreams from my Father, which told the story of his search for his father - a Kenyan goatherd at one point who came to this country and married his mother but left when Barack Obama was just two years old to first go to school in New York City and then return to Kenya.
Listen to this: He is fighting for responsible young people who came to this country as children, through no fault of their own, and were raised as Americans -- the only country they know -- because he believes that these young people also deserve the chance to go to college, to contribute to our economy, to serve the country they know and love.
Between 1997 and 2009, 2.2 million more people came to live in this country than left to live abroad.
And when these Americans who had dedicated their lives to defending this country came home, many settled on a life of service, choosing to make their entire lives a tour of duty.
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Largely lost in the frenzy is an unhappy fact: The Iranian mullahocracy has been at war with this country since it came to power in 1979.
In 2008, we came together to reclaim the basic bargain that built this country -- the basic ideal of this country, the thing that created the largest middle class, the most prosperous nation in the history of the world.
Statistics just came out this week: From 2001 to 2009, the income of middle-class families in this country went down 5 percent.
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By train, by wagon, on buggy, bicycle, on foot, they came to hear the vision of a man who loved this country and was determined to perfect it.
One must keep in mind that the category "Hispanic" can encompass anyone from a recent immigrant with little education to a highly educated, well-to-do person whose wealthy ancestors came this country generations ago.
America was on the move again, and the car came back to take its place in the mythology of this country in the hearts of the young, not to speak of the fact that far from being the luxury, the car was more and more of a necessity, as suburbs stretched into excerpts and excerpts into strip malls.
Two big-footed Georgians came to town this week to announce their intention of getting the country's attention on the subject of arms control, which hasn't been seriously discussed since the Senate voted down the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty over a year ago.
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We have not always agreed on the -- precisely the right approach to absolutely everything, but our goal has always been the same, and that is to leave this country better off than when we came into it, just like our ancestors have done generation after generation for us.
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Even before the measure gets its first public airing, its authors were defending the program that would provide a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million individuals in this country who came illegally or overstayed their visit.
"You will recall that the reason I came to national attention was a speech in which I spoke of my love of this country, " said Obama.
Unfortunately, this critical mass of brain-power proved pretty useless when it came to governing the country.
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