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immigrate
in
Enrique's Journey
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As she clicks the dishwasher on, Carmen, concerned that I might disapprove of her choice, tells me that many immigrant women in Los Angeles from Central America or Mexico are just like her — single mothers who left children behind in their home countries.†
Chpt Prol.

immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
The United States is experiencing the largest wave of immigration in its history, a level of newcomers that is once again transforming the country.†
Chpt Prol.

immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
Each year, an estimated 700,000 immigrants enter the United States illegally.†
Chpt Prol.

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
Since 2000, nearly a million additional immigrants annually, on average, have arrived legally, or become legal residents.†
Chpt Prol.
A Harvard University study showed that 85 percent of all immigrant children who eventually end up in the United States spent at least some time separated from a parent in the course of migrating to the United States.†
Chpt Prol.

immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
In much of the United States, legitimate concerns about immigration and anti-immigrant measures have had a corrosive side effect: immigrants have been dehumanized and demonized.†
Chpt Prol.

immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
In much of the United States, legitimate concerns about immigration and anti-immigrant measures have had a corrosive side effect: immigrants have been dehumanized and demonized.†
Chpt Prol.

immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
In much of the United States, legitimate concerns about immigration and anti-immigrant measures have had a corrosive side effect: immigrants have been dehumanized and demonized.†
Chpt Prol.

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
Immigrants have been reduced to cost-benefit ratios.†
Chpt Prol.
Perhaps by looking at one immigrant — his strengths, his courage, his flaws — his humanity might help illuminate what too often has been a black-and-white discussion.†
Chpt Prol.

immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
Perhaps, I start thinking, I could take readers on top of these trains and show them what this modern-day immigrant journey is like, especially for children.†
Chpt Prol.
"This," a Los Angeles woman who helps immigrants told me, "is the adventure story of the twenty-first century."†
Chpt Prol.

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
Where do Mexican immigration authorities stop the train?†
Chpt Prol.

immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
I talked with dozens of children held by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in four jails and shelters in California and in Texas.†
Chpt Prol.
So had students I had spoken with at a special Los Angeles high school for recent immigrants.†
Chpt Prol.

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
In Chiapas, I hung out with Grupo Beta agents near the dangerous "El Manguito" immigration checkpoint.†
Chpt Prol.

immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
TRAIN-TOP LESSONS I thought I understood, to a great extent, the immigrant experience.†
Chpt Prol.

immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
Growing up as the child of Argentine immigrants in 1960s and 1970s Kansas, I have sometimes felt like an outsider.†
Chpt Prol.

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
On many levels, I relate to the experiences of immigrants and Latinos in this country.†
Chpt Prol.
My family was never separated during the process of immigrating to the United States.†
Chpt Prol.

immigrating = coming to live in a new country
The single mothers who are coming to this country, and the children who follow them, are changing the face of immigration to the United States.†
Chpt Prol.

immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
Each year, the number of women and children who immigrate to the United States grows.†
Chpt Prol.
Immigrants who come to the United States are by nature optimists.†
Chpt Prol.

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
Roughly two thirds of them will make it past the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.†
Chpt 1

immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
Counselors and immigration lawyers say only half of them get help from smugglers.†
Chpt 1
To evade Mexican police and immigration authorities, the children jump onto and off of the moving train cars.†
Chpt 1
Lourdes crosses into the United States in one of the largest immigrant waves in the country's history.†
Chpt 1

immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
Three times, she hires storefront immigration counselors who promise help.†
Chpt 1

immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
She's there to try to help a son arrested in an immigration raid.†
Chpt 1
IMMIGRATION CONSULTANT.†
Chpt 1
Find five or six interested immigrants, the woman tells Dominga, and I'll throw in your son's residency papers for free.†
Chpt 1

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
Dominga convinces other immigrants in her apartment complex to sign up.†
Chpt 1
He sits in a hallway at a Mexican immigration holding tank in Tapachula.†
Chpt 1

immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
Immigration agents caught him and bused him to Tapachula.†
Chpt 1
The cheapest coyote, immigrant advocates say, charges $3,000 per child.†
Chpt 1

immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
There are too many immigrants.†
Chpt 1

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
He comes back before crossing the Rio Grande and tells Enrique about riding on trains, leaping off rolling freight cars, and dodging la migra, Mexican immigration agents.†
Chpt 1

immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
Soon after her brothers' deaths, the restaurant where Lourdes works is raided by immigration agents.†
Chpt 1
For immigration agents, squeezing cash from migrants is central to day-to-day operations, helping underpaid agents buy big houses and nice cars.†
Chpt 2
Many are caught by the Mexican police or by la migra, the Mexican immigration authorities, who take them south to Guatemala.†
Chpt 2
For the fifth time, immigration agents shipped him back to Guatemala.†
Chpt 2
Get Mexican immigration authorities to catch Enrique and deport him back to Honduras.†
Chpt 2
The driver is an off-duty immigration officer.†
Chpt 2
In Chiapas, do not take buses, which must pass through nine permanent immigration checkpoints.†
Chpt 3
His best odds are at night or in fog, when Enrique can see immigration agents' flashlights but they cannot see him.†
Chpt 3
Storms are best, even when they bring lightning and he is riding on a tank car full of gas; rain keeps immigration agents indoors.†
Chpt 3
In the next five hours, before immigration agents and Mexican soldiers stopped the train and opened the doors, Zepeda saw seven migrants fall to the floor.†
Chpt 3
But slowing down at Huixtla, with its red-and-yellow depot, can mean only one thing: coming up is La Arrocera, one of the most dreaded immigration checkpoints in Mexico.†
Chpt 3
Immigration agents picked this place, named after two rice warehouses, because it is so isolated.†
Chpt 3
Except in extraordinary circumstances, Mexican immigration agents are barred from carrying firearms.†
Chpt 3

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Definitions:

(1) (immigrate)
come to live in a new country
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, immigrate can mean that anything (such as an animal or plant) migrates into a new environment.

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