immigration
- noun
- /ˌɪmɪˈɡreɪʃən/
- For recently arrived refugees, the risk of additional lead exposure after immigration may also be substantial.
- immigration status
- illegal immigration
- immigration policy
The theme of this conference, immigration and gender, is vast.
- The theme of this conference, immigration and gender, is vast.
- And I think that goes for our immigration rates right now as well.
- He did campaign against immigration and against trade.
- Just causing fear and resentment isn't an immigration policy in government.
- One, liberal immigration laws and two, freedom of speech.
- Well, it's because our legal immigration system is a failure.
- You know, is, is, is immigration genuinely a problem?
- I think immigration played a big part in it.
- OK, well, maybe maybe some of the anti immigration fear has gone a little too far.
- Everyone can see that the left's immigration policy has been a complete disaster.
- The massive wave of immigration that is going to be basically weaponized.
- Not anti migrant but anti illegal immigration and yet lazy.
Examples
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After years of waiting, her immigration application was finally approved, allowing her to start a new life in America.
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The theme of this conference, immigration and gender, is vast.
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What is the current state of immigration in the US?
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And I think that goes for our immigration rates right now as well.
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Well, it's because our legal immigration system is a failure.
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We have the worst immigration laws in the entire world.
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I think immigration played a big part in it.
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So we have to keep immigration legitimate in Australia.
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Dozens were held in prolonged US immigration detention for one to three years.
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She's the director of the AFL-CIO Immigration Community Action.
Synonyms
Movement of people into a place to live there for a long time
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Compounds
A former United States government office that handled immigration and becoming a citizen
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Etymology
Immigration comes from the parts in- 'into' and migrāre 'to move', so it means 'moving into' a place. That's why immigration describes the process of people coming to live permanently in a country that is not their own.