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plural immigrants
A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there. quotations examples
What Alexis de Tocqueville saw in America was a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers, people eager to build lives for themselves in a spacious society that did not restrict their freedom of choice and action.
1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, page 2
[Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.
2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019
A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist. examples
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Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating. examples