immigration

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Chicano history, Latin American immigration and the Diaspora.

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  1. The act of immigrating; the act or process of passing or removing into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, I. 101. A great tide of immigration sets continually to America. Theodore Parker, Sermons, Int.
  2. Commissioners of immigration in the United States, officers appointed to supervise the entrance and transportation of immigrants, and to care for their interests generally.
  3. Bureau of Immigration. See bureau.

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  • Here's the segment on immigration, which is based on a Reason TV video. —  QandO
  • If Porritt is concerned with tackling population growth in the UK he should be campaigning to stop immigration, which is overwhelmingly what lies behind the projected figure of 70 million within the next twenty years. —  British Blogs
  • New York Times has been running an in-depth series examining the impact on the country of massive levels of immigration, which is unprecedented both in numbers and fact that many of the newcomers are from the Third World, not from Europe as in the past., —  American Thinker
  • The number of Catholics is shrinking in the Northeast, leading to the closing of parishes and schools, even as Catholic populations balloon in the southern and western parts of the country because of Latin American immigration. —  AroundTheCapitol.com
  • Arpaio wants them to be instructed in American immigration laws, as a way to help them understand that the violation of these laws has serious consequences not only to them but to society as a whole. —  Migra Matters
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  1. = French immigration = Spanish inmigracion = Portuguese immigração, from Latin as if *immigratio(n-), from immigrare, inmigrare, past participle immigratus, inmigratus, remove into: see immigrate.
 

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