All 13 Uses of
immigrate
in
This I Believe
- From the moment the immigration officer at La Guardia Airport shook my hand and wished me good luck, I again began to see the sunnier side of life.†
Chpt 38immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- Here I was, a humble immigrant boy crossing the Atlantic to a country that seemed to answer all my prayers for happiness and freedom.†
Chpt 48immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- I was seventeen, the daughter of Bolivian immigrants growing up in suburban Detroit.†
Chpt 53immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- I found jobs in the immigrant rights movement.†
Chpt 53immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- In my first job, if we helped fifty immigrant families in a day, the faces of the five who didn't qualify haunted my dreams at night.†
Chpt 53
- When I helped pass a bill in Congress to help Americans reunite with their immigrant families, I could only think of my cousin who didn't qualify and who had to wait another decade to get her immigration papers.†
Chpt 53
- When I helped pass a bill in Congress to help Americans reunite with their immigrant families, I could only think of my cousin who didn't qualify and who had to wait another decade to get her immigration papers.†
Chpt 53immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- Born in Detroit to Bolivian immigrants, she has worked on behalf of Hispanic-Americans.†
Chpt 53immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Later this month, I will be participating in a ceremony at Ellis Island, where I will receive copies of the ship manifest and the immigration documents that record the arrival in America of my mother, Maud Ariel McKoy, from Jamaica aboard the motor ship Turialba in 1923.†
Chpt 58immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- We are a land of immigrants:
Chpt 58 *immigrants = people who come to live in a new country
- And we are touched not just by immigrants but by the visitors who come to America and return home to tell of their experiences.†
Chpt 58immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- An America that each day gives new immigrants the same gift that my parents received.†
Chpt 58
- Next to his picture were photos of my great-grandparents, Ellis Island immigrants.†
Chpt 61
Definition:
come to live in a new country