Immigrant | Word Immigrant at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat Foundation

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them...
It is important of course to note that the term immigrant at that time was racially defined so that While people were not immigrants but were either settlers or foreigners.
Eventually, we expect to become citizens of Mexico, so "immigrant" is more appropriate.
DOBBS: Illegal aliens and their supporters say they are marching today in support of what they call immigrant rights.

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A person might be an "emigrant" (a person who leaves a country in order to settle in another country) from Russia and an "immigrant" (a person who comes to settle in a country) to the United States.

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