restrictionist

American  

[ri-strik-shuhn-ist] / rɪˈstrɪk ʃən ɪst /

noun

plural

restrictionists

1. a person who supports or advocates for the addition of restrictions on a policy or practice, especially on the amount of immigration or imported goods allowed into a country.

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adjective

1. of or relating to restrictionism.

Other Word Forms

• restrictionism noun

Example Sentences

All the other states, who controlled international and interstate migration, were restrictionist.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026

In meetings, he sometimes clashed heatedly with Gene Hamilton, an attorney working on security issues at DHS who is now at the Justice Department, and had a reputation as an immigration restrictionist.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2020

Though Miller was often the driving force, many of these changes were long-standing goals of the restrictionist movement.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2019

The main groups cultivated new allies in Congress, none stronger than Jeff Sessions, then a senator from Alabama, whose office served as an unofficial Capitol Hill headquarters for the restrictionist movement.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2019

This delimitation of the immigration problem to its economic aspects led the Immigration Commission to recommend a somewhat restrictionist policy.

From The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various