immigration
- the act of immigrating.
- a group or number of immigrants.
Origin of immigration
Related Words for immigration
travel, exodus, migration, displacement, exile, voyage, relocation, removal, movement, transmigration, defection, march, peregrination, colonization, journey, expatriation, trek, shift, departure, crossingExamples from the Web for immigration
Contemporary Examples of immigration
And so the same creeping rot of the rule of law that the administration has inflicted on immigration now bedevils our drug laws.
As a man who helped people become fugitives to save their skins, his focus on immigration is rooted in a personal life experience.
Rubio has his own troubles with immigration, but people close to him said he still may have a path even with a Bush candidacy.
How A Jeb Bush Candidacy Would Hurt Chris Christie And Shake Up The 2016 GOP FieldDavid Freedlander
December 16, 2014
Yet that is precisely what President Obama and more specifically the immigration lobby is asking Americans to do.
In their opinion, this would allow conservatives to lay a marker down on immigration while avoiding a shutdown for the time being.
Historical Examples of immigration
Our young Manxman is already feeling the English immigration on his character.
The Little Manx Nation - 1891Hall Caine
A tide of immigration is setting in towards the Southern states.
The Negro FarmerCarl Kelsey
"It is for the immigration bureau," the purser hastened to explain.
The DestroyerBurton Egbert Stevenson
Omaha was the city which invited them and received the bulk of immigration to that State.
Negro Migration during the WarEmmett J. Scott
But we're all growing older, and Stern's pretty cagey about immigration.
The Best Made PlansEverett B. Cole
immigration
- the movement of non-native people into a country in order to settle there
- the part of a port, airport, etc where government employees examine the passports, visas, etc of foreign nationals entering the country