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immigrant

noun as in person who migrates to a different country

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Her message to such immigrants was to not sign documents to authorize deportation.

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Workers helping integrate deported immigrants in Honduras told researchers from the Women’s Refugee Commission that nursing women who were deported had not received enough food and water to continue lactating.

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Their opening night jamboree is a hit but things take a turn when an Irish immigrant vampire comes a-knockin’.

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Although it declined in popularity in Ireland and England by the 1800s, apple bobbing rose in popularity across the United States, thanks to European and Irish immigrants who introduced the longstanding tradition.

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Qubein, an immigrant who says he arrived in the U.S. with $50 and attended High Point in the 1960s, felt too many colleges were “vanilla.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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