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Synonyms for immigration
ˌɪm ɪˈgreɪ ʃənim·mi·gra·tion

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  1. immigration

    Synonyms:
    migration, colonization, settlement

    Antonyms:
    emigration, exodus

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. immigration, in-migrationnoun

    migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)

    Synonyms:
    in-migration

  2. immigrationnoun

    the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval

    "the increased immigration strengthened the colony"

    Synonyms:
    in-migration

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  1. Hugh Grant:

    We've got three kids together, we live together, and I didn't like the moment at immigration.

  2. Andrew Free:

    End family separation, the hashtag, is really odd to me because without family separation, one of the defaults would be family detention and that’s been the hashtag since 2015, like so much else in immigration, this administration has taken weapons that Obama’s folks loaded and left on the table on the way out and then they picked these weapons up and started firing, and that’s what’s happened here.

  3. Carlton Soules:

    What does that tell illegal immigrants? It says, come to San Antonio. I’m not sure we want to be a magnet for illegal immigration.

  4. Mike Huckabee:

    Ted Cruz has changed his positions on ethanol, immigration, H-1B visas. He's changed it on whether marriage is a state or a federal issue. He's changed it on whether he's going to be a real champion for religious liberty or whether that's going to be way down the road and it's not important.

  5. Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton:

    It is a hardened criminal population that occupies the immigration detention center on Christmas Island, obviously the priority for today has been to restore calm to the center. That has taken place.


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