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• n  a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there

• The House leadership is in a tight spot they need to show some progress on the issue to placate angry anti-immigrant forces in the country.
• That complaint has long been shared by the anti-immigrant far right in France, whose leader Le Pen complained that France "cannot recognize itself in the national side.
• Many immigrant families, especially the Indochinese refugees who arrived in the years following the fall of Saigon in 1975, remain mired in poverty.

News & Articles

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• Irish immigrant killed in reckless hit-and-run in the Bronx
  A young Irish immigrant was killed by a hit-and-run driver on a treacherous stretch of highway -- near the Tombstone Saloon and Woodlawn Cemetery -- in The Bronx this morning, police and witnesses said. Victim Kevin Bell, 26, was mowed down around 3:30 a.m. a few blocks from...
  June 16, 2013 - New York Post
• Danbury Police Officer Fired Over Treatment of Immigrant in Traffic Stop
  DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton (BOW'-tuhn) has fired a police officer over his treatment of an immigrant during a traffic stop. Boughton fired officer Chris Belair after reviewing an audio tape, video and other materials related to the stop in March.
  June 16, 2013 - Litchfield County Times
• Immigrant Learning Center hosts celebration of culture
  The challenges of being an immigrant can be daunting, but for some those hardships become inspiration.
  June 15, 2013 - Malden Observer

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Before It's News
  In the United States of America, no law-abiding person, be they an American citizen, a legal immigrant or a visitor or tourist from Mexico, should ever be subject to suspicion simply because of what they look like,Obama said when Mexican...
• Cardinal Roger Mahony in Catholic Culture
  The Arizona legislature just passed the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law [SB 1070, awaiting the expected signature of Gov. Jan Brewer],Cardinal Mahony wrote on April 18. "The tragedy of the law is...
• Ed Reyes in AZ Central.com (blog)
  An immigrant city, an international city, needs to have its voice heard,Reyes said at the time. "It is crucial this great city take a stand."