All 7 Uses of
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- Mami had it tucked into her immigration papers.†
Story 2
- The only way we could have been poorer was to have lived in the campo or to have been Haitian immigrants, and Mami regularly offered these to us as brutal consolation.†
Story 4
- He could have afforded another bus ticket but that would have bitten into the rent money he had so diligently saved on the advice of many a veteran immigrant.†
Story 10
- But I'm the one who takes the risk of running into Immigration.†
Story 10
- He'd been fortunate in that when Mami reached back across a similar chain of immigrants to locate Papi in the north, he'd told her to direct her letters to the restaurant he was working at and not to Nilda's home.†
Story 10
- As with most of the immigrants around them, Nilda was usually at work.†
Story 10
- It was the first time he had moved outside the umbra of his fellow immigrants.
Story 10 *immigrants = people who came from elsewhere to live in the country
Definition:
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(immigrate) come to live in a new country