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immigrant

noun as in person who migrates to a different country

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The Conservatives say they would task officials with removing 750,000 illegal immigrants from the UK within five years if they win the next election.

From BBC

Republicans, for their part, have repeatedly accused Democrats of shutting down the government in a bid to provide healthcare to undocumented immigrants - a charge that Democratic leaders have denied.

From BBC

The changes, which Newsom called for in the spring to offset a ballooning Medi-Cal budget deficit, drew criticism from some immigrant rights groups, with the California Immigrant Policy Center describing the moves as “discriminatory.”

He did this during the campaign after being called out for his overt lie about Haitian immigrants kidnapping and eating people’s pets.

From Salon

The trial also made national news after Ortega cross-examined Border Patrol sector chief Gregory Bovino about previous comments he had made describing undocumented immigrants as “scum, filth and trash.”

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