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  • s  belonging to a place by birth
    a native-born Scot

  • But only in Singapore, which is a British Crown Colony, do native-born Chinese have full British citizenship.
  • It participates freely in this most enduring and efficient rite of passage into American culture: negative appraisals of the native-born .
  • But the discrepancy is also evident when native-born blacks are compared with black immigrants from the West Indies and Africa.
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  • Jeb Bush says immigrants 'more fertile.' Is that right?
    Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Friday told an audience of conservatives that the future of the US economy depends on immigrants in part because they are “more fertile” than native-born Americans and thus will produce many young workers to help support the aging US boomer generation.
    June 14, 2013 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News
  • Jeb Bush: Immigrants 'more fertile,' fuel economy
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told religious conservatives Friday that the future of the nation's economy depends upon immigrants in part because they "are more fertile" and create more businesses than native-born Americans.
    June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
  • Jeb Bush: Immigrants are ‘more fertile’
    Jeb Bush, a former governor of Florida, had a lot to say at Friday's Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. But the thing that has everyone talking: his description of immigrants as "more fertile" than native-born Americans. Bush, a recurring potential candidate for president, is fluent in Spanish, married a Mexican-born woman and has a strong [...]
    June 14, 2013 - The Ticket via Yahoo! News
Quotes

  • David Rubenstein in Right Side News
    One report notes that Rubenstein says Carlyle "was an early investor in the Chinese marketplace," that its China office "has hired many native-born Chinese, and the company is seeking to build its buyout and growth-capital businesses there."
  • John McCain in Forbes
    We rank 45th in the country for the percentage of native-born residents who earn college degrees. And as a nation, we are one of just two industrialized countries in the world whose college-completion rate is actually declining. We can do better.... Bill Ritter http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ritter_(politician)&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE1wYtxOQT7FdScuVoKSMSTQe35_g Sky Hi Daily News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.skyhidailynews.com/article/AT/20080514/NEWS/80460857/-1/REGIONAL_NEWS&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE0h2hstJtPprXdEz_uMYY9UpPRQw May 14, 2008 66682 88770 native I congratulate him on that Michigan welcomed their native son with their support," McCain added. "I said we would win in New Hampshire. We will win in South Carolina."

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