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Definition of Immigrant

Immigrant

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

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

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.
Robert Plant

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
David Byrne

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
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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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