noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
illegal immigrant
illegal immigrants
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An estimated seven million illegal immigrants are brought into Europe each year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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black
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There is also some evidence that black immigrants are more entrepreneurial than native-born blacks.
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Soon, two-thirds of the black immigrants had left the state.
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The new black immigrants at the bottom of the pile were hardly mentioned.
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One of the consequences of this is an ambivalent attitude to black immigrants .
illegal
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The president beefs up the border controls and institutes checks against the employment of illegal immigrants .
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Only 37 percent of Latinos agreed, with 56 percent saying that illegal immigrants had a good effect.
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Meanwhile, the nightly flood of illegal immigrants into Imperial Beach slowed to a trickle.
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It also would open Arizona companies to lawsuits from legal residents who are replaced in their work by illegal immigrants .
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And does anyone doubt that the fleeing illegal immigrants will be rewarded handsomely?
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The judge also barred provisions that would have allowed state agencies to investigate and report alleged illegal immigrants .
legal
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C., a proposal in Congress would end federal financing for health and welfare services for legal immigrants .
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When it comes to legal immigrants , Californians are liberal enough.
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When he signed the bill, Clinton said he would fight this year to restore benefits for legal immigrants .
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Groups of legal immigrants have started to demonstrate at the Capitol to express their demands for restoration of cuts relevant to them.
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The nation had 11. 8 million legal immigrants in 1990, according to the Census Bureau.
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The bill would also have denied numerous benefits and services to legal immigrants .
new
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The plan envisaged that most of the new Soviet immigrants would find work in the private sector.
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Basically, these are jobs for the unskilled, including the new immigrants coming in.
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The new black immigrants at the bottom of the pile were hardly mentioned.
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And each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices.
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The variety of languages spoken on the streets and in shops is extraordinary - for new immigrants as well as the old Anglo settlers.
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After each new wave of immigrants became enfranchised, they began electing people of their own background, she said.
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The Hanmer family were the first of the new immigrants to appear and they were still there 120 years later.
poor
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She herself found time now to help with poorer immigrants .
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In other words, his message is: no poor immigrants please, just highly qualified ones.
recent
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And many of the town-dwellers of 1880 were recent immigrants from the countryside.
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The impact of this recent influx of immigrants on education in the United States has been significant.
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Many had considerable reading and writing skills, but about 20 percent were recent immigrants , often with language difficulties.
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All three varietals seem to be adapting well to California, considering that they are recent immigrants .
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These were mainly long-standing residents of Maputo, not recent immigrants .
soviet
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The plan envisaged that most of the new Soviet immigrants would find work in the private sector.
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The budget was based on the arrival of an estimated 300,000 Soviet immigrants during 1991.
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Some figures showed that as many as 40 percent of Soviet immigrants were unemployed.
undocumented
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Wilson tried, with little success, to get the federal government to reimburse the state for providing services to undocumented immigrants .
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There has been harsh rhetoric against documented and undocumented immigrants , as well as attempts to deprive them of essential human services.
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benefit
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George Pataki who criticized the reform plan for denying Medicaid benefits to legal immigrants who are not citizens.
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Among their complaints: The new law cuts food stamps and bans some federal welfare benefits for some legal immigrants .
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The proposal would maintain Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid benefits for disabled legal immigrants who have not become citizens.
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He attacks illegal immigration and opposes welfare benefits for illegal immigrants .
help
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She herself found time now to help with poorer immigrants .
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Unacceptable police behaviour in Roissy's waiting area has been repeatedly denounced by organisations that help immigrants .
hire
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His top opponents were snagged by the Zoe Baird affair; they too had hired illegal immigrants to care for their children.
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President Clinton issued an order Tuesday barring federal contracts from companies that knowingly hire illegal immigrants .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Jae Min's parents are immigrants from South Korea.
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Santa Clara was a mesh of Italian, Mexican and German immigrants in the 1800s.
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The bill would have cut off government aid even to legal immigrants.
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The new immigrants come mainly from Asia and Latin America.
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The winery was started by an Italian immigrant to California.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Between 1820 and 1920 some 35 million immigrants reached the United States.
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From people worried about the country being marginally swamped by immigrants, no doubt.
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It was these immigrants who did so much for the pioneer areas and young industries.
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Mr Stoiber has been in the forefront of those calling for tighter restrictions on asylum-seekers and ordinary immigrants.
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Once on the job, strong immigrant networks mean that other immigrants tend to be hired when new openings emerge.
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There is also some evidence that black immigrants are more entrepreneurial than native-born blacks.
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This is a nation of immigrants.
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With illegal immigrants, the decision will be easy.