All 14 Uses
immigrate
in
Esperanza Rising
(Edited)
- The conductors herded everyone into a building where they stood in long lines waiting to pass through immigration.
p. 81.4immigration = a process where people are approved for coming into a country
- The immigration official seemed angry for no reason.
p. 82.2immigration = related to rules for people coming into a country
- They boarded and waited an hour for all the passengers to get through immigration.
p. 83.6immigration = a process where people are approved for coming into a country
- La Migra the immigration authorities — round up people who cause problems and check their papers.
p. 170.8immigration = related to a process where people are approved for coming into a country
- If they are not in order, or if they do not happen to have their papers with them, the immigration officials send them back to Mexico.
p. 171.1 *
- In the distance, a caravan of gray buses and police cars headed fast toward the shed, dust flying in their wakes. "Immigration!" said Josefina.
p. 205.1immigration = people who enforce rules for people coming into a country
- The buses and cars screeched to a stop and immigration officials and police carrying clubs jumped out and ran after them.
p. 205.4immigration = related to rules for people coming into a country
- Several immigration officials accompanied by police began searching the platform, turning over boxes and dumping out field bins.
p. 206.1
- Two immigration officials positioned themselves in front of the shed.
p. 207.4
- Some of the boxes had been tossed over by the immigration officials and as she bent down to set one straight, she sucked in her breath, startled by what was in front of her.
p. 208.4
- "Immigration has been here, too," said Miguel.
p. 212.5immigration = people who enforce rules for people coming into a country
- A series of circumstances, including her father's death, eventually forced my grandmother to immigrate to the United States to a company-owned farm labor camp in Arvin, California.
p. 256.7immigrate = move (to a new country)
- Unlike Esperanza in the story, my grandmother had already married my grandfather, Jesus Munoz, when she immigrated to California.
p. 256.8immigrated = came to live in a new country
- County officials in Los Angeles, California, organized "deportation trains" and the Immigration Bureau made "sweeps" in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles, arresting anyone who looked Mexican, regardless of whether or not they were citizens or in the United States legally.
p. 258.3immigration = related to rules for people coming into a country
Definitions:
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(1)
(immigrate) come to live in a new country
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(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.