: opposed to immigrants or immigration : characterized by or expressing opposition to or hostility toward immigrants
State and local politicians have used widespread public opposition to immigration to justify new anti-immigrant legislation.—
Robert K. Schaeffer
Robert K. Schaeffer
anti-immigration
adjective
ˌan-tē-ˌi-mə-ˈgrā-shən
ˌan-tī-
anti-immigration policies
News of the rising growth rate also prompted anti-immigration groups to claim that immigrants damage the environment.
—Priscilla Huang
Priscilla Huang
Examples of anti-immigrant in a Sentence
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The week before the Convention, Colby had addressed the New Right at the National Conservatism Conference, an annual gathering that attracts the anti-internationalist, anti-immigrant, and anti-corporate wing of the Republican Party.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 18 July 2024
Indeed, the America of 2024 is more anti-immigrant than in the recent past, more skeptical of immigration, and more open to policies that would have seemed extreme if they had been enacted when Trump was in office.
—Christian Paz, Vox, 17 July 2024
Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric has also strayed into talking points not backed by evidence, including claims that migrants are entering the country to vote in the 2024 election.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 17 July 2024
The future Milwaukee Bucks star was born and raised in Athens; his parents, having emigrated from Nigeria, struggled without work permits, and Giannis' young life was an often-terrifying test of survival (among other things, avoiding violent anti-immigrant groups in the streets).
—Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 16 July 2024
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 18 July 2024
Indeed, the America of 2024 is more anti-immigrant than in the recent past, more skeptical of immigration, and more open to policies that would have seemed extreme if they had been enacted when Trump was in office.
—Christian Paz, Vox, 17 July 2024
Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric has also strayed into talking points not backed by evidence, including claims that migrants are entering the country to vote in the 2024 election.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 17 July 2024
The future Milwaukee Bucks star was born and raised in Athens; his parents, having emigrated from Nigeria, struggled without work permits, and Giannis' young life was an often-terrifying test of survival (among other things, avoiding violent anti-immigrant groups in the streets).
—Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 16 July 2024
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“Anti-immigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-immigrant. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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