1. In its original, broadest and literal meaning, an immigrant is any person who lives in a country other than their country of birth.

2. Today the term “immigrant” is sometimes used with a more specific meaning: economic migrants, as opposed to people who retire abroad and international businessmen (who are both considered ex-pats); refugees; people serving abroad with the military or diplomatic corps; and international students.

What every inhabitant of the USA is, except the Native Americans.

A term corrupted by the political agenda of parties wishing to garner large quantitites of votes easily.

Someone who comes to live in this country, contrary to what the ignorant fucker who wrote number 4 said they nearly always work and are not normally even entitled to benefits. They tend to do work no-one else wants to do. The stupid meat-head pissed wankers that hate them are normaly the same people who eat kebabs(which wouldn't exist in this country without immigration) at 2 in the morning. They have introduced lots of foods to our country including curry, which we all love. Almost evryone in the UK will have immigrants in thier bloodline. Normally used as a scapegoat to distract us from the real problems of the world.

Politically correctslang for "slave". Basically, immigration was the United States's perfect way of coping with the abolishment of slavery because all it had to do was lure the unfortunate souls from their home countries into America with its bullshit "Land of Opportunity" advertisements, and cruelly exploit them like animals for years, even their entire lives, while dangling the green card just out of their reach.

(1) One who LEGALLY comes into a new country and settles, as opposed to an "illegal alien", who either sneaks into a new country, or enters legally, then overstays his allowed time as a visitor. There is no such thing as an "illegal immigrant", since the word "immigrant" implys legality.

(supposed to mean those coming into a country) but is now known to be the millions of Iraqi, Czech, Portugese etc men that come into England supposedly for work, rely solely on benefits, but somehow manage to buy every brand/designer name on the planet. They hang around in shopping centres and city centres eyeing up young girls, whistling and often attempting to pervertedly communicate with said young girls. They all have the same haircut too.