restrictionist
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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 Mr. Miller was often the driving force, many of these changes were longstanding goals of the restrictionist movement.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2019
While the restrictionist movement had long taken that principle to heart, he said, “Stephen understood how to operationalize it.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2019
Those on the restrictionist side use the image to symbolize an unruly border, adding guns or nuclear bombs to political cartoons of the sign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2018
Dr. Bigelow is speaking as a restrictionist against the free and unlimited vivisection which he rightly foresaw was about to be introduced into this country, and which has become the practice of the present day.
From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell
What new immigrants might inflict on this country is the perpetual worry of immigration restrictionists — and yet history keeps proving them wrong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Muzaffar Chishti, head of the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute’s New York office, called this question an “equal opportunity challenge” for its potential effects on immigration challenges brought by immigrant advocates and restrictionists alike.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
More importantly, though, if these restrictionists are really so concerned about all the immigrants slipping in through the back door, the best solution is a more accessible, clearly monitored front door.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2021
Giving such a prominent platform to restrictionists doesn’t accomplish that.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2018
This performance was denounced by Northern restrictionists as menacing and insolent.
From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall
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