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  • Like so many other immigrants to America in those years, theirs was a leap of faith.   (source)
    immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
  • For the immigrants of Europe, a dream dared and won true.   (source)
  •   I talked enough and stole enough and sold enough to buy a steamship ticket, and I joined the multitudes going to America.
      The immigration officer said, “What is your name?”   (source)
    immigration = (describing the officer as responsible for) movement of people who come to live in a new country
  • For the hundredth time, I cursed my immigrant origins.   (source)
    immigrant = person who came from another county to live
  • It was the first time he had moved outside the umbra of his fellow immigrants.   (source)
    immigrants = people who came from elsewhere to live in the country
  • the whole complex of structures and gates and panels that were built, hand-built, by one man, alone, an immigrant from somewhere near Naples,   (source)
    immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
  • My parents had immigrated to Chile from Krakow when I was very young,   (source)
    immigrated = moved to (a new country)
  • The men, whom I knew as Mr. Yoon and Mr. Kim, were both recent immigrants in their thirties with wives and young children.   (source)
    immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
  • An immigrant goes to America   (source)
    immigrant = person who comes to live in a new country
  • Mohammad Ali Jinnah lived there and made it our first capital, and it was soon flooded by millions of Muslim refugees from India known as mohajirs which means "immigrants" and speak Urdu.†   (source)
  • Then I advise you to get a good immigration lawyer.†   (source)
  • The son of Italian immigrants, he had come into the world in Olean, New York, on January 26, 1917, eleven and a half pounds of baby under black hair as coarse as barbed wire.†   (source)
  • Caught by immigration authorities trying to slip into the country without ID, he spent a night in custody before concocting a story that sprang him from the slammer, minus his .†   (source)
  • She probably saw a cleaning lady, or an immigrant bargain-hunter.†   (source)
  • On the fifth day she received a short note in the mail from the immigration detention center in San Francisco.†   (source)
  • If there were ever a poster child for immigration, it would be Kazem.†   (source)
  • More pessimistic than Latino immigrants, many of whom suffer unthinkable poverty.†   (source)
  • Most immigrants now are Jewish.†   (source)
  • Up and down the street were entrepreneurial immigrants in colorful clothes—embroidered guayaberas and flowing kente and spray-painted T-shirts—hustling everything from mix tapes to T-shirts to incense from crowded sidewalk tables.†   (source)
  • In Kampala, it took him two days to get through customs and immigration before he could board a smaller plane to go to Juba, in southern Sudan.†   (source)
  • Besides assuring our collection of a happy future, the transaction would pay for our immigration and leave us with a good sum to make a fresh start in Canada (though now, when I think of it, the sum is laughable—how blinded we are by money).†   (source)
  • Like most immigrants, we had no money.†   (source)
  • The son of Irish immigrants, Michael had grown up outside of Philadelphia in a tough working-class neighborhood.†   (source)
  • At last, in May 1949, after nearly three years in the displaced persons camp, we received word that our immigration request had been approved.†   (source)
  • Dr. Tamba took our passports and did all the talking at immigration.†   (source)
  • They were descended from later immigrants; they were Boston Irish.†   (source)
  • Flushing, with all its immigrant services at hand, frightened me.†   (source)
  • This tradition is probably something left over from the early Hawaiian days or something the Japanese immigrants who moved here a long time ago to work in the cane fields brought with them.†   (source)
  • Venkat and Teddy moved toward the long immigration line as the Chinese citizens from their flight split off to go to a simpler point-of-entry process.†   (source)
  • We were herded into long lines to be inspected, interrogated, stamped, and then set loose among hundreds of other immigrants, speaking languages that sounded to my ears like the braying of farm animals.†   (source)
  • They need me to order food and to translate tax and immigration forms and everytheeng else, and that was the day they stopped treating me like a keed.†   (source)
  • In history class, Gogol has learned that European immigrants had their names changed at Ellis Island, that slaves renamed themselves once they were emancipated.†   (source)
  • Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, when he became the Managing Director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.†   (source)
  • Let's just say the, ah, immigration process to enter your country took quite a while.†   (source)
  • Illegal immigrants, I think.†   (source)
  • Mam said, That's the Statue of Liberty and that's Ellis Island where all the immigrants came in.†   (source)
  • Visit any neighborhood where there are immigrants, and you'll see shops that sell food from the home country -- pastas from Italy, kielbasa sausages from Poland, curry spices from India.†   (source)
  • Have these precautions been put in place because of the recent influx of immigrants?†   (source)
  • Immigration would have their hands full, as thousands of surface-sick fairies were drawn irresistibly overground.†   (source)
  • Mexicans along the border, he notices, are quick to proclaim their right to immigrate to the United States.†   (source)
  • They were all old women, immigrants who had come over with their children, and America fascinated them.†   (source)
  • My parents came over from Europe during the Great Immigration.†   (source)
  • And beneath that there was a hint of lilt that brought back the overtones of a cat burglar l'd known who had grown up on Asquith, a quiet, backwater Web world settled by First Expansion immigrants from what had once been the British Isles.†   (source)
  • My mom's a seventh-generation Texan, although she did once immigrate to New York City.†   (source)
  • The first real work in Jackson Park began on February 11, when fifty Italian immigrants employed by McArthur Brothers, a Chicago company, began digging a drainage ditch.†   (source)
  • Mae thought of the petition she'd signed that day, to demand more job opportunities for immigrants living in the suburbs of Paris.†   (source)
  • Tony's Italian-immigrant father was killed in the mine that same year.†   (source)
  • But there had always been the lake, which was the town's first cause of existence, a place for immigrant settlers to put down their loads.†   (source)
  • Don't have their own police force-no immigration control-undesirables can walk right in without being frisked or even harassed.†   (source)
  • While cities in the East expanded through immigration and became more diverse, Los Angeles became more homogenous and white.†   (source)
  • They are members of a social stratum which includes welfare mothers, housing project residents, immigrant families, the homeless and unemployed.†   (source)
  • The professor said most of them are immigrants.†   (source)
  • Brumidi, however, immigrated to America in 1852, abandoning God's largest shrine in favor of a new shrine, the U.S. Capitol, which now glistened with examples of his mastery—from the trompe l'oeil of the Brumidi Corridors to the frieze ceiling of the Vice President's Room.†   (source)
  • He founded a nonprofit group to help immigrants' kids learn English.†   (source)
  • I must have inherited some of the immigrant pluck my parents grew up with as first-generation Californians, or in my case, maybe it's just plain stubbornness.†   (source)
  • On the previous night they had gone to the cinema, each one separately, and had sat apart as they had done at least twice a month since the Italian immigrant, Don Galileo Daconte, had installed his open-air theater in the ruins of a seventeenth-century convent.†   (source)
  • We heard it as we sipped cafés cubanos in Little Havana and ate Jamaican jerk chicken in little holes-in-the-wall in the dreary immigrant neighborhoods west of Fort Lauderdale.†   (source)
  • Thus it was impossible, in the strict legal sense, for Japanese immigrants to own land in Washington state.†   (source)
  • How can a fifty-two-year-old white immigrant storekeeper with the taste of potatoes and beer in his mouth, his mind honed on the doe-eyed Virgin Mary, his sensibilities blunted by a permanent awareness of loss, see a little black girl?†   (source)
  • I wanted to run after her and tell her I had nothing to do with Doreen, because she looked stern and hardworking and moral as an old-style European immigrant and reminded me of my Austrian grandmother.†   (source)
  • For days the Store was a strange country, and we were all newly arrived immigrants.†   (source)
  • But he made it through immigration without incident and drove straight to Cange, through the many reconstituted military checkpoints.†   (source)
  • The Swedish immigration authorities had registered him, strangely enough, as a Serb.†   (source)
  • Most of them immigrated to the United States between 1890 and 1915.†   (source)
  • Sophia, on the other hand, was the child of immigrants.†   (source)
  • Indeed, she and her family were expected within the fortnight, former parents planned a sizable Thanksgiving reunion of the Clutter clan (which had its beginnings in Germany; the first immigrant Clutter-or Klotter, as the name was then spelled-arrived here in 1880); fifty-odd kinfolk had been asked, several of whom would be traveling from places as far away as Palatka, Florida.†   (source)
  • I'd rather be known as the gangbanger than the immigrant busboy.†   (source)
  • Upon my return to Johannesburg I learned that the police had arrested a member of the militant right-wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), a Polish immigrant to South Africa who had been captured after a courageous Afrikaner woman had phoned the police with the killer's license plate number.†   (source)
  • He poured himself some water and glared over at the Immigration officers as they packed in the people and roared off in a boiling cloud of dust.†   (source)
  • THE CHANGE IN Clarkston was an accelerated version of demographic changes taking place all across America because of immigration and refugee resettlement.†   (source)
  • The immigrants, under Woundwort's direction, dug their holes between the roots of the trees, in the undergrowth and along the ditches.†   (source)
  • He touched on the growing immigration laws, and all his advisers spoke, including Lady Brice.†   (source)
  • Immigration is making noises.†   (source)
  • This time around, the Klan was not confined to the South but ranged throughout the country; this time, it concerned itself not only with blacks but also with Catholics, Jews, communists, unionists, immigrants, agitators, and other disrupters of the status quo.†   (source)
  • The few problems that did arise, it was asserted, were caused by "certain types," namely the rising numbers of poor Irish, German, and Scandinavian immigrants.†   (source)
  • The police first tried to shoo them away, then arrested the girls for illegal immigration.†   (source)
  • He worked in the fields driving tractors and trucks, a job that usually went to illegal immigrants, though he was a citizen.†   (source)
  • We said good-bye to Teacher Zhang before we checked through immigration.†   (source)
  • He didn't fit into white American culture and couldn't find his place in the immigrant community.†   (source)
  • But no one could completely shield the immigrant children from nativist bigotry.†   (source)
  • They were immigrants, ethnic minorities, city kids, returning women, full-time workers, former addicts, and single parents.†   (source)
  • They got arrested and imprisoned in that Immigration building.†   (source)
  • Poverty began to fascinate her; she begged Lestat or me to take a carriage out through the Faubourg St.-Marie to the riverfront places where the immigrants lived.†   (source)
  • It was from there that subversive ideas were carried on the uncontrollable winds of the radio, the telegraph, and the steamers laden with immigrants who stepped ashore in a daze, fleeing the hunger back home, stunned by the roar of the bombs and the corpses rotting in the plowed fields.†   (source)
  • When they tried to return, they were stopped at the border by American immigration authorities who would not let them back into the country.†   (source)
  • The code blue excitement subsides, and Mr. Momen, an Iranian immigrant with a thick accent, closes the classroom door.†   (source)
  • THE RITUAL OF IMMIGRATION and baggage claim at Kennedy Airport went by so quickly that I wondered if I'd missed it.†   (source)
  • Most of the students were children of immigrant Jews who preferred to regard themselves as having been emancipated from the fenced-off ghetto mentality typical of the other Jewish parochial schools in Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • It portrayed a group of white neighborhood kids defending their turf against a gang of Hispanic immigrants.†   (source)
  • I am an immigrant, and I still believe in the basic right to be fully American and fully Muslim.†   (source)
  • Radchaai immigrants who lived here tended to wear much more conventional clothes, and Lieutenant Awn, when she visited, wore her uniform without too much discomfort.†   (source)
  • Thomas Williams was an immigrant— "an old country man" —who spoke "good English" and had "a film in his left eye."†   (source)
  • "Our names are Jean Pierre and Regine Fontaine, Monsieur le Directeur, and here are our passports," said the soft-spoken. old man inside the immigration officer's glass-enclosed office, the chief aide of the Crown governor at his side.†   (source)
  • She hires the real down-and-outs, immigrants from Russia or Pakistan, people who don't speak any English, figuring she can get them cheap.†   (source)
  • "I have friends…had friends who were Vietnamese immigrants," Joe said.†   (source)
  • When his fingerprints came back as the same man sent back by immigration, interrogators went to work over several months in 2002 and 2003.†   (source)
  • But increasingly we share a common agenda and common objectives: completion of the Single Market and structural economic reform; better conditions for growth and jobs in Europe; successful enlargement; a united and coherent foreign policy voice for Europe; a more effective fight against crime, drugs, illegal immigration and environmental damage; flexible, open and accountable European institutions.†   (source)
  • Here's something that might not occur to you: If a state trooper sees a weird, patchwork Toyota Echo hurtling down 1-95, and it looks like half of a small country is immigrating to the States in this one little car, you might get stopped.†   (source)
  • His forefathers were poor immigrants from Ireland who quickly took advantage of America's freedoms to achieve prosperity.†   (source)
  • I silently read the words on the plaque, Department of Immigration and Naturalization Services.†   (source)
  • They believe that immigration from Mexico and Latin America is of a scale that could linguistically Balkanize the United States.†   (source)
  • Another day we rode the ferry to Ellis Island, where they take in immigrants.†   (source)
  • We have been and always will be a proud revolutionary city, a welcoming city to immigrants from all over the world, where your parents and grandparents and even great-grandparents settled.†   (source)
  • I bobbed precariously on the immigrant flood; I smelled of Kilkenny, the back seats of station wagons, and the chlorine of YMCA pools.†   (source)
  • During the morning cabinet meeting, Vice President Johnson said it was an aberration, the grousing of dirt Irish immigrants looking for free food, perhaps trying to scare a few honest men out of their jobs.†   (source)
  • One time in class a couple of weeks ago, he was lecturing about immigration.†   (source)
  • The actual proportion of immigrants in my sample may be slightly larger than this, for I do not have information on the nativity of everyone, and some of the unknowns may have been born abroad.†   (source)
  • Atta, her name was, and some complicated last name—a recent immigrant in her late fifties or so, overweight and putty-skinned, wearing a heavy, belted dress and stockings that looked like Ace bandages.†   (source)
  • Armistead said briefly, "Oh God"-"although doubtless you English would consider him still an immigrant.†   (source)
  • Once an immigrant sets foot on Luna today he is a free man, no matter what his previous condition, free to go where he listeth.†   (source)
  • Standard was one of hundreds of aftermarket manufacturers and distributors, many still owned by the founder, in many cases an immigrant, or his children.†   (source)
  • "I'm an immigrant," answered Natalie coolly, "not an idiot.†   (source)
  • Forgot the immigration office?†   (source)
  • He counted off the problems one by one--the undisciplined Red allies, the unending flow of immigrants.†   (source)
  • The immigrants I know have loud voices, unmodulated to American tones even after years away from the village where they called their friendships out across the fields.†   (source)
  • Other immigrants come to America looking for freedom from tyranny, acceptance by the culture, assimilation into it, this melting pot.†   (source)
  • I'm going to sit down and write a registered letter to the Immigration Service.†   (source)
  • Did they have any trouble with immigration people at the border?†   (source)
  • Their community, clustered on "The Hill" at the topof the town, was made up mostly of poor immigrants from southern Italy and Sicily.†   (source)
  • Today they have their passports and visas like everybody else, and walk past immigration like everybody else, and nobody gives a damn.†   (source)
  • Leamas watched the lights of Berlin rise to meet them, felt the thud as the plane touched down, saw the customs and immigration officials move forward out of the half-light.†   (source)
  • To Yurii Andreievich she seemed like a barque lying at rest in the middle of a harbor after putting in and being unloaded, a barque that plied between an unknown country and the continent of life across the waters of death with a cargo of immigrant new souls.†   (source)
  • In 1856, he had joined that flood of antislavery immigrants to "bleeding" Kansas who intended to keep it a free territory.†   (source)
  • I heard a splash downriver, and turned to see a family of immigrants crossing midstream.†   (source)
  • The cheapest coyote, immigrant advocates say, charges $3,000 per child.†   (source)
  • People were getting a little scared of immigrants and positively hostile to illegals.†   (source)
  • They don't want female immigrants voting."†   (source)
  • "It's for an immigrant training program," Ruth lied, "so they won't have to go on welfare.†   (source)
  • Showing true immigrant tenacity, the owners added Chinese items as well.†   (source)
  • I don't want to be bothered by Customs or Immigration.†   (source)
  • Old-timey West Virginia children fared no better than immigrant children.†   (source)
  • The pro-immigration forces erupt in applause and hooting.†   (source)
  • Now, the immigrants claim, certain units remain haunted by this chemical specter.†   (source)
  • It was a lot like the garment work done by the Jewish immigrants to New York.†   (source)
  • Pesza changed her name to Aviva after she immigrated to Israel.†   (source)
  • Many of the workers involved were minors and recent immigrants.†   (source)
  • He immigrated to Canada in 1955 and died in Toronto in 1989.†   (source)
  • Rows of immigrant women hunched over machines, their lungs filling with lint.†   (source)
  • Somehow, in the end, they declared her a Displaced Person, lost in a sea of immigration categories.†   (source)
  • Every so often, the immigration authorities assaulted the place.†   (source)
  • I'm not some ignorant immigrant shirtwaist girl, frightened out of her wits.†   (source)
  • There was a sizable immigrant population in Coalwood.†   (source)
  • During the immigration procedures, our last name changed to Leyson.†   (source)
  • He puts Enrique with four immigrant men being routed to Orlando, Florida.†   (source)
  • LuLing continued to give the immigrant good advice until she quit.†   (source)
  • A large proportion of these workers are illegal immigrants.†   (source)
  • A laser scans it as she careens toward the entrance and the immigration gate swings open for her.†   (source)
  • Almost everyone who worked in the restaurant was an undocumented immigrant.†   (source)
  • Now a cheerful, eager immigrant greets any marketer who calls the house.†   (source)
  • """ Friedman's mother was a Russian immigrant.†   (source)
  • That she'd work as a servant for immigrants?†   (source)
  • TRAIN-TOP LESSONS I thought I understood, to a great extent, the immigrant experience.†   (source)
  • Workers who are illegal immigrants cannot vote and have little ability to defend their legal rights.†   (source)
  • To exploit that opportunity, you had to have certain virtues, and those immigrants worked hard.†   (source)
  • In America, I have an "ethnic" face, a certain immigrant look that says, "I'm not Scandinavian."†   (source)
  • A couple of Mexican immigrants shot him when he chased them following a minor argument.†   (source)
  • His parents were Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine.†   (source)
  • Please, you were once poor immigrants yourself ….†   (source)
  • Women, Children, and the Immigration Debate An estimated 1.†   (source)
  • The effect of immigration has been family disintegration.†   (source)
  • "Immigrants," Father said, biting down on his cigar.†   (source)
  • He was the eldest son of Jewish immigrants from Romania.†   (source)
  • His parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.†   (source)
  • In Chiapas, do not take buses, which must pass through nine permanent immigration checkpoints.†   (source)
  • Like Flom, he grew up poor, the child of struggling Jewish immigrants.†   (source)
  • Counselors and immigration lawyers say only half of them get help from smugglers.†   (source)
  • The Irish and Italian immigrants who came to New York in the same period didn't have that advantage.†   (source)
  • Immigration agents caught him and bused him to Tapachula.†   (source)
  • U.S. immigration agents raid Wal-Marts around the country for illegal immigrants.†   (source)
  • Like Flom, Bickel was the son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who lived in Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • The immigrant tied the rancher to a chair and stole his pickup truck.†   (source)
  • His parents were the children of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.†   (source)
  • His parents were Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine.†   (source)
  • Immigrants have been reduced to cost-benefit ratios.†   (source)
  • So had students I had spoken with at a special Los Angeles high school for recent immigrants.†   (source)
  • He was a descendant of Jewish immigrants.†   (source)
  • They knew one person in New York: Borgenicht's sister, Sallie, who had immigrated ten years before.†   (source)
  • They must compete for the same low-end jobs immigrants take.†   (source)
  • On many levels, I relate to the experiences of immigrants and Latinos in this country.†   (source)
  • RAND said some native adults had become unemployed because of immigrant competition.†   (source)
  • Most immigrants would rather stay in their home countries with their extended families.†   (source)
  • More illegal immigrants now use smugglers (89 percent, compared to 70 percent before).†   (source)
  • Immigrant production of goods and services, the NRC found, added a modest but significant $1.†   (source)
  • Where do Mexican immigration authorities stop the train?†   (source)
  • He sits in a hallway at a Mexican immigration holding tank in Tapachula.†   (source)
  • Texas ranchers have become increasingly riled by immigrants who trespass.†   (source)
  • Three times, she hires storefront immigration counselors who promise help.†   (source)
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