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Definition of Immigrant
Immigrant

One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

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Immigrant Quotations

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore Roosevelt

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
Toni Morrison

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
Samuel P. Huntington

America was and is the immigrant's dream.
Don DeLillo

I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
Zinedine Zidane

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.
Daniel Libeskind

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
Daniel Libeskind

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
Peter Jennings

To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
Herbert Croly

Immigrant Translations

immigrant in French is immigrant
immigrant in German is Einwanderer
immigrant in Italian is immigrante
immigrant in Norwegian is innvandrer
immigrant in Spanish is inmigrante


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