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- 1911 U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization orders that declarations of intent to file for citizenship can only be received from whites and from people of African descent, thus allowing courts to refuse naturalization to the Japanese.†
Chpt Chroimmigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- 1924 Congress passes an Immigration Act stating that no alien ineligible for citizenship shall be admitted to the U.S. This stops all immigration from Japan.†
Chpt Chro
- 1924 Congress passes an Immigration Act stating that no alien ineligible for citizenship shall be admitted to the U.S. This stops all immigration from Japan.†
Chpt Chro
- Most of them immigrated to the United States between 1890 and 1915.†
Chpt Term *immigrated = came to live in a new country
- It's true that everywhere he stopped he'd be helping a friend through one legal squabble or another—an immigration problem, a repossessed fishing boat.†
Chpt 1.6immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- And as our society becomes ever more diverse, more and more people bring their own immigrant experience to the reading.†
Chpt Aft.immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- It comes out fifty years after Congress passed public law 514 in 1952, which overturned restrictive federal policies, finally making it possible for immigrants of Asian ancestry —like Ko — to naturalize as U.S. citizens.†
Chpt Aft.immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
Definitions:
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(immigrate) come to live in a new country
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(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.