: 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 anti-immigrant American Party, or Know-Nothing ticket, did flourish in the 1850s before imploding over the issue of slavery.
—Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
Xenophobic neo-Nazi terrorists stoked anti-immigrant violences in Germany unchecked for years — in the 21st century.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2024
In a marked shift, several countries have voted in anti-immigrant nationalists, including Italy’s Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, and the Netherlands’ far-right anti-Muslim leader Geert Wilders, who stunned Europeans by winning the parliamentary elections last November.
—TIME, 15 May 2024
In a significant shift from anti-immigrant policies of the 1990s, California now leads the nation in helping undocumented residents — issuing driver’s licenses, protections from deportation, COVID-19 pandemic relief, health care and, most recently, food assistance.
—Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 13 May 2024
Critics say Trump is capitalizing on those concerns by playing up anti-immigrant sentiments.
—Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 11 May 2024
But the biggest fear for those dreading a possible far-right surge across Europe has long been the arrival on France’s center stage of anti-immigrant icon Marine Le Pen and her National Rally (RN) party.
—Ian Bremmer, TIME, 9 May 2024
The far-right, anti-immigrant Vlaams Belang group, which has long called for the northern Flanders region to secede, is polling above 25% there.
—Craig Stirling, Fortune Europe, 9 May 2024
The working class, long the cornerstone of socialism in Europe, migrated en masse to the anti-immigrant right as an expression of frustration at growing inequality and stagnant paychecks.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 5 May 2024
Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
Xenophobic neo-Nazi terrorists stoked anti-immigrant violences in Germany unchecked for years — in the 21st century.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2024
In a marked shift, several countries have voted in anti-immigrant nationalists, including Italy’s Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, and the Netherlands’ far-right anti-Muslim leader Geert Wilders, who stunned Europeans by winning the parliamentary elections last November.
—TIME, 15 May 2024
In a significant shift from anti-immigrant policies of the 1990s, California now leads the nation in helping undocumented residents — issuing driver’s licenses, protections from deportation, COVID-19 pandemic relief, health care and, most recently, food assistance.
—Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 13 May 2024
Critics say Trump is capitalizing on those concerns by playing up anti-immigrant sentiments.
—Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 11 May 2024
But the biggest fear for those dreading a possible far-right surge across Europe has long been the arrival on France’s center stage of anti-immigrant icon Marine Le Pen and her National Rally (RN) party.
—Ian Bremmer, TIME, 9 May 2024
The far-right, anti-immigrant Vlaams Belang group, which has long called for the northern Flanders region to secede, is polling above 25% there.
—Craig Stirling, Fortune Europe, 9 May 2024
The working class, long the cornerstone of socialism in Europe, migrated en masse to the anti-immigrant right as an expression of frustration at growing inequality and stagnant paychecks.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 5 May 2024
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“Anti-immigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-immigrant. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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