All 50 Uses
immigrate
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Spare Parts, by Joshua Davis
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- He didn't fit into white American culture and couldn't find his place in the immigrant community.†
p. 14.6 *immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- In 1870, early Anglo immigrants to the region named the town's east—west streets after U.S. presidents and labeled the north—south roads by local Indian-tribe names.†
p. 16.4immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- The new names also helped Anglo immigrants feel that the land was more fully theirs.†
p. 16.6
- The barrios where Mexican immigrants settled got almost nothing.†
p. 16.7
- The spike in demand for labor was met in part by immigrants who streamed across the border illegally, all of whom needed somewhere to stay.†
p. 17.7
- They had received complaints from residents who were bothered by immigrants bathing naked in the orange groves around town.†
p. 31.1
- James Dailey, an Immigration and Naturalization Service intelligence agent, described the area as "the first —or second-most notorious staging site for aliens in the world."†
p. 31.3immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- "Immigration papers," the officer clarified.†
p. 31.6
- The immigrants were loaded into a van and deported.†
p. 32.1immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Agents were required to fill out form I-213—the Record of Deportable Alien—when they detained an immigrant.†
p. 32.4immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- On July 28, 1997, the authorities convinced a trailer-park manager to notate a map with Xs for every trailer that contained suspected illegal immigrants.†
p. 32.7immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- A raid in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa in December netted 191 illegal immigrants, and in March 2000, the INS nabbed another 140 suspected illegal immigrants in the area.†
p. 33.8
- A raid in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa in December netted 191 illegal immigrants, and in March 2000, the INS nabbed another 140 suspected illegal immigrants in the area.†
p. 33.8
- Phoenix was the prime focus—INS officials referred to Sky Harbor as the "Grand Central Station" of immigrant smuggling in the United States.†
p. 33.9immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- By 2004, when Cristian arrived at Fredi's marine science classroom, organizations such as the Minutemen, Ranch Rescue, and American Border Patrol were scouring the state for illegal immigrants.†
p. 34.6immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- He accepted the idea that immigrant children wanted to attend school—and might therefore want to assimilate and contribute to the country—but he argued that it was a bad idea to educate them, as it overtaxed the education system and drained resources from long-standing citizens.†
p. 35.2immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- It was better, in Buchanan's view, to turn them away, particularly since he believed they would never amount to much: "Millions of immigrants, but especially their children, who today survive on welfare are being inculcated with the values of a subculture of gangs, crime, drugs, and violence."†
p. 35.4immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- In his 2008 autobiography, he warned that Mexican immigrants feel that "the United States stole the territory that is now California, Arizona and Texas ...and that massive immigration over the border will speed and guarantee the reconquista of these lands, returning them to Mexico."†
p. 35.7
- In his 2008 autobiography, he warned that Mexican immigrants feel that "the United States stole the territory that is now California, Arizona and Texas ...and that massive immigration over the border will speed and guarantee the reconquista of these lands, returning them to Mexico."†
p. 35.8immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- Arpaio titled his book Joe's Laus: America's Toughest Sheriff Takes On Illegal Immigration, Drugs, and Everything Else That Threatens America.†
p. 35.9
- To Arpaio, Mexican immigrants were unlike any immigrants that had come before them.†
p. 35.9immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- To Arpaio, Mexican immigrants were unlike any immigrants that had come before them.†
p. 35.9
- "My parents, like all other immigrants exclusive of those from Mexico, held to certain hopes and truths," he wrote in his book.†
p. 36.1
- Indeed, advocates of a more aggressive approach to immigration argued that Mexican immigrants were a double threat.†
p. 36.4immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- Indeed, advocates of a more aggressive approach to immigration argued that Mexican immigrants were a double threat.†
p. 36.4immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- One report cited in Buchanan's book warned that sickly immigrants "would endanger children in school and at the movies, anyone standing in range of a rogue cough or sneeze, or patrons of fast-food restaurants whose food might be prepared by an 'invader.'†
p. 36.7
- A few weeks after Oscar's eleventh birthday, Ramiro called to say that he had been caught in an immigration raid and was being deported.†
p. 39.1immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- When Ramiro finally made it back to his family in Temosachic, he explained that the immigration agents had streamed into the potato factory; Ramiro had hid behind a bunch of cardboard boxes, but one of his shoes stuck out.†
p. 39.3
- Oscar's parents enrolled him at Isaac Middle School, but like other immigrants before him, he didn't speak English.†
p. 41.5immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- They claimed to be coyotes—smugglers capable of walking immigrants through the desert and across the border—but they looked more like addicts.†
p. 44.9
- Ramiro's friends pulled away and the coyotes explained the rules: keep up, hide when you see the migra trucks, and, no matter what, don't identify them as coyotes if caught by immigration.†
p. 45.3immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- A hundred feet away, an immigration camera rotated on a post, but they moved carefully past it, staying on its blind side until they came up the opposite bank and into an open field with knee-high grass.†
p. 46.1
- At a time when immigrants such as Oscar were referred to as "illegal aliens," Goins taught his students that the Declaration of Independence enshrined all people—not just American citizens—with "unalienable Rights."†
p. 50.6immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Since the Vietnam War, immigrants with green cards had been permitted to enlist.†
p. 50.9
- Inside, she found an immigration agent and asked if kids with U.S. school IDs would be allowed to cross.†
p. 75.1immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- But the immigration agent's interest was piqued.†
p. 75.2
- They were led to a holding area inside one of the immigration buildings, and over a nine-hour stretch, a series of agents interrogated them.†
p. 75.6
- Immigration agents phoned Jane Juliano, the principal of Wilson Charter High School, and asked her to fax birth certificates for the four detained students.†
p. 75.8
- The Justice Department appealed, but a federal immigration appeals board threw the case out and the four were allowed to stay in the United States.†
p. 76.2
- A phalanx of official vehicles bore the logo of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.†
p. 107.5
- They were headed into an immigration checkpoint.†
p. 107.6
- The anxiety he felt at the immigration checkpoint had dissipated, but the threat was still there.†
p. 109.1
- Maybe he was never meant to be anything more than an impoverished immigrant who brawled his way through life.†
p. 115.6immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- The law was meant to incentivize immigrant teens to return to the country where they were born.†
p. 179.9
- ON DECEMBER 16, 2004—five months after the Carl Hayden triumph in Santa Barbara—Russell Pearce took the stage at the Brookings Institution's Falk Auditorium in Washington, D.C. The Arizona state representative had been invited to talk about policies affecting children in immigrant families.†
p. 183.2
- The session was titled "The Future of Children," and Pearce expressed his strong belief that being too nice to immigrants wasn't good for the country or even the immigrants themselves.†
p. 183.3immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- The session was titled "The Future of Children," and Pearce expressed his strong belief that being too nice to immigrants wasn't good for the country or even the immigrants themselves.†
p. 183.3
- To Pearce, Arizona and the United States had become too hospitable to immigrants.†
p. 183.5
- Many voters in Arizona seemed to believe that immigrants had come to the country to leech off the government.†
p. 183.6
- From this perspective, immigrants weren't here looking for work, they were poor, lazy families that would contribute less than they received to the country.†
p. 183.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(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.