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come to live in a new countryMuch more rarely, immigrate can mean that anything (such as an animal or plant) migrates into a new environment.
- About 1 of each 8 people in the United States immigrated from somewhere else.
immigrated = came to live (from another country)
- About 1 in 4 people who live in the United States are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
- Over 1 in 4 Californians immigrated from another country.
- Today, most of the people who immigrate to the United States are from Latin America and Asia.
- Mexican-born immigrants account for over a quarter of all foreign born people living in the United States.
- About half of the children in California are living with parents who immigrated from another country. Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Texas all have over a third of their children living with foreign-born parents.
- The immigrant share of the United States Population climbed from less than 5% in 1970 to over 13% today.
- Between 1860 and 1920 the share of the United States population that immigrated from another country was between 13 and 15%. Then it declined to less than 5% in 1970. Today it is over 13% again.
- If they are not in order, or if they do not happen to have their papers with them, the immigration officials send them back to Mexico.Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising
- You have made me, the son of poor immigrants, rich, powerful, and respected.Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game
- But I also belonged to the tribe of American immigrants.Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- It was the first time he had moved outside the umbra of his fellow immigrants.Junot Diaz -- Drown
- We are a land of immigrants:Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
- Mexicans along the border, he notices, are quick to proclaim their right to immigrate to the United States.Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey
- Like so many other immigrants to America in those years, theirs was a leap of faith.Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
- the fact that his parents immigrated from Tarrytown, New York, not Tientsin, China.Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
- An immigrant goes to AmericaArthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim -- Westside Story
- the whole complex of structures and gates and panels that were built, hand-built, by one man, alone, an immigrant from somewhere near Naples,Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- For the hundredth time, I cursed my immigrant origins.Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- My parents had immigrated to Chile from Krakow when I was very young,Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love
immigrate = come to live in (from another country)
immigration = related to a process where people are approved for coming into a country
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
immigrants = people who came from elsewhere to live in the country
immigrants = people who come to live in a new country
immigrate = come to live in a new country
immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
immigrated = came to live from
immigrant = person who comes to live in a new country
immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
immigrant = person who came from another county to live
immigrated = moved to (a new country)
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