anti-immigrant

adjective

an·​ti-im·​mi·​grant

ˌan-tē-ˈi-mə-grənt,

ˌan-tī- 

: 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

anti-immigration

ˌan-tē-ˌi-mə-ˈgrā-shən

ˌan-tī- 

adjective

anti-immigration policies

News of the rising growth rate also prompted anti-immigration groups to claim that immigrants damage the environment.

—Priscilla Huang

Examples of anti-immigrant in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis has taken up the anti-immigrant campaign aggressively, deputizing law-enforcement officers to assist ICE in its roundups. —Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025

At the height of California’s anti-immigrant movement in 1994, Border Patrol agents on bikes stopped me in Downtown San Diego and questioned me about my status. —Pedro Rios, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025

Far-right and anti-immigrant groups targeted Chobani for employing refugees. —Emily Barnes, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025

Kirk was a provocateur who at times made statements that some called racist, misogynistic, anti-immigrant and transphobic. —Jonathan J. Cooper, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1858, in the meaning defined above