- I'm an immigrant but I'm here
to create jobs not take jobs.
(whooshing and creaking) (tense music)
- I'm an immigrant but my Colombian
passport does not make me a drug dealer.
- I'm not a criminal. I'm not a bad person.
And I'm not here to take your money.
- I don't feel foreign in this country.
- I'm not a monster.
- I've never hogged the queue at A and E.
- I'm an immigrant but I don't feel like an immigrant.
(tense music)
- I'm an immigrant and I have two masters,
and I'm in the middle of my PhD.
- I have a post grad in development studies.
- And I loved cats.
- And I love fish and chips.
- I do drama. I play the violin.
- I got married way before I was ready
because I just wanted to live in
the same country as the person I love.
- And I love EastEnders.
(hums EastEnders theme)
- I'm a immigrant and my favorite Disney
princess is Ariel from Little Mermaid.
- It's not that we hate your culture
and we don't want to get involved.
Actually we're very much curious.
- They're humans just like you are.
- I come from a country in massive debt.
It doesn't mean that I'm here to take benefits from the UK.
Like, I've never seen a benefit in my life.
- Being an immigrant is just something
you have a right and a legal document.
- Every immigrant has their own unique story
and they're not all the same.
- When you say you're an immigrant
people think, "Oh, well, that's enough out of you.
"I'm going. You figure it out."
- Whenever we have crisis hit areas people migrate.
It's a general human trait.
If this room was on fire, we'd all run.
- It's really hard work to come here
and you don't do it if it's not worth it.
- It's a status.
It's not really something that you inherently are.
You are so many other things.
You are what you love, you are what you do.
- Without immigrants we wouldn't have
Indian food, Chinese food, Japanese food.
- The history of humanity has been a history of traveling
and it has been a history of exchange.
- Without immigrants, you wouldn't have (mumbling).
- From the beginning of time people have migrated.
Migration is a part of life.
(upbeat music)
(whooshing and creaking)