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- noun Plural form of
immigrant .
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Examples
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Sewell Chan has just published an article in the New York Times detailing the results of the $2 million study, which focused on five immigrant groups in the New York Area: "Dominicans, Chinese, Russian Jews, South Americans consisting of Colombians, Ecuadoreans and Peruvians and West Indians, defined as immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean, including Belize and Guyana."
The results are in 2008
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Sewell Chan has just published an article in the New York Times detailing the results of the $2 million study, which focused on five immigrant groups in the New York Area: "Dominicans, Chinese, Russian Jews, South Americans consisting of Colombians, Ecuadoreans and Peruvians and West Indians, defined as immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean, including Belize and Guyana."
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CARDENAS: It's a painful term, Lou, and it's something that we try to stay away from, but, to tell you honestly, the reality here in Iowa is that it's not so much what you call immigrants, but actually who immigrants are, and who we are and what we see here in Iowa is that immigrants are ...
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Scapegoating immigrants is easy, actually solving our environmental problems is a lot more complicated.
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This whole obsession with illegal immigrants is a dangerous distraction from the necessity to secure our border.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Arizona Immigration Law Preempted? 2010
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The ability of Britain to maintain its large welfare state in the face of a large influx of immigrants is what that Labour supporter is concerned about.
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In addition, any estimate of illegal immigrants is just that, an estimate that surely is minimized.
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OBAMA: As I said before, the best way to deal with undocumented immigrants is to make them documented.
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Or that we incur some obligation if the cost of +X immigrants is a mere $Y (measured as welfare payouts, standard of living decrease, or whatever).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals 2010
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Overall, nearly one in three immigrants is an illegal alien.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals 2010
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