All 50 Uses
immigrate
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Enrique's Journey (Adapted for Young People)
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- Carmen, concerned that I might disapprove of her choice, tells me that many immigrant women in Los Angeles from Central America or Mexico are just like her—single mothers who left children behind in their home countries.†
p. 2.7immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- IMMIGRATION INTO THE UNITED STATES
p. 5.6immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country
- The United States has experienced the largest wave of immigration in its history.†
p. 5.6 *immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- Since 1990, more than 11 million immigrants arrived illegally.†
p. 5.7immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Since 2000, a million additional immigrants annually, on average, have arrived legally, or become legal residents.†
p. 5.7
- This wave of immigration differs in one respect, at least, from those of the past.†
p. 5.8immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- In much of the United States, legitimate concerns about immigration and anti-immigrant measures have had a severe side effect: immigrants have been dehumanized and demonized.†
p. 6.4
- In much of the United States, legitimate concerns about immigration and anti-immigrant measures have had a severe side effect: immigrants have been dehumanized and demonized.†
p. 6.4immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- In much of the United States, legitimate concerns about immigration and anti-immigrant measures have had a severe side effect: immigrants have been dehumanized and demonized.†
p. 6.5immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Perhaps, I thought, if I provided an in-depth look at one immigrant—his strengths, his courage, his flaws—his humanity might help shed light on what too often has been a black-and-white discussion.†
p. 6.5immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- I thought I understood the immigrant experience.†
p. 6.6
- Growing up as the child of Argentine immigrants in 1960s and 1970s Kansas, I often felt like an outsider, straddling two countries, two worlds.†
p. 7.1immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- On many levels, I relate to the experiences of immigrants and Latinos in this country.†
p. 7.2
- My family was never separated during the process of immigrating to the United States.
p. 7.3immigrating = coming to live in a new country
- Where do Mexican immigration authorities stop the train?†
p. 8.5immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- He was seventeen, a little older than the average unaccompanied child caught entering the United States by immigration authorities, but his story was just as harrowing as those I had heard from other children and teens who had taken the journey.†
p. 10.6
- Immigration lawyers say only half of them get help from smugglers; the rest travel alone.†
p. 14.3
- The U.S. government has fifty-three shelters in twelve states to detain immigrant children, and in 2012, scrambled to open several new shelters.†
p. 14.5immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- The single mothers who come to this country, and the children who follow them, are changing the face of immigration to the United States.†
p. 15.1immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- Immigrants who come to the United States are by nature optimists—they leave everything they know and love in hopes of a better life.†
p. 15.5immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- "This," a Los Angeles woman who helps immigrants told me, "is the adventure story of the twenty-first century.†
p. 16.4
- Lourdes's smuggler sneaks her into the United States during one of the largest immigrant waves in the country's history.†
p. 21.9immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- Through friends, she hears that soon after returning to California he and other Latin American workers were caught during a raid by U.S. immigration enforcement agents.†
p. 29.2immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- She spends a total of $3,850 on three immigration counselors who promise help.†
p. 32.3
- In California there is such an abundance of immigrants that employers can pay poorly and treat them badly.†
p. 34.1immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Soon after her brothers' deaths, the restaurant where Lourdes works is raided by immigration agents.†
p. 40.5immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- Many are caught by the Mexican police or by la migra, the Mexican immigration authorities, who take them south to Guatemala.†
p. 57.1
- For the fifth time, immigration agents shipped him back to Guatemala.†
p. 58.1
- The driver is an offduty immigration officer.†
p. 63.6
- Buses pass through nine permanent immigration checkpoints.†
p. 66.1
- Then he can see immigration agents' flashlights but the agents cannot see him.†
p. 66.3
- Even the authorities, including police and immigration agents, are corrupt and may rob or rape you.†
p. 66.4
- La Arrocera is the immigration checkpoint Enrique fears most.†
p. 75.4
- Sometimes Mexican immigration authorities put people on the train who pretend to be migrants.†
p. 75.9
- Mexican immigration agents are prohibited from carrying firearms.†
p. 76.9
- They pray on top of the train cars, asking God to protect them against bandits, who rob and beat them; police, who shake them down; and la migra, the Mexican immigration authorities, who deport them.†
p. 95.1
- Besides, some say, giving to migrants is a good way to protest Mexico's policies against illegal immigration.†
p. 97.2
- There is a great risk in housing migrants: one could be accused of immigrant smuggling.†
p. 100.6immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- "Jesus was an immigrant," he hears them say.†
p. 111.1
- A clump of reeds hides it from the U.S. immigration authorities' constant surveillance.†
p. 118.1immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- Though many mothers expect the separation to be short, typically it lasts six to eight years, says Analuisa Espinoza, a Los Angeles Unified School District social worker who specializes in immigrants.†
p. 135.2immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Ranchers have become increasingly riled by immigrants who trespass.†
p. 139.8
- Most immigrants are good, they say, but the bad ones pack drugs, break into your place, and steal things.†
p. 139.9
- Agents are equipped with helicopters, night-vision goggles, thermal imaging that picks up body heat, and sensors that detect footsteps along immigrant trails.†
p. 140.3immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- Immigrant children are brought to the jail shackled in handcuffs.†
p. 151.9
- They are given little information about when they might be brought before an immigration judge or deported.†
p. 152.1immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- If the riders do not look over but seem frozen in their seats, they are likely to be illegal immigrants.†
p. 155.5immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Lourdes says she has sent the money through a female immigrant who lives with her, because the woman gets a discount at the bank.†
p. 159.9immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- That summer, one of Spanish television's top-rated shows, Don Francisco Presenta, is taping a special episode on immigrant families that have been separated.†
p. 197.4
- She is caught by Border Patrol agents as she is entering the United States but as a minor is quickly released to her parents with an order to appear in immigration court at a later date.†
p. 203.9immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
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.