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immigrenglish

A portmanteau of the words "immigrant" and "english" usually used when referring to the comical attempts made by non-native english speakers trying to pronounce certain words phonetically.
"Are they burning effigies?" (Effigies being pronounced, "eff-EEE-geez")

"What are integers again?" (Integer being pronounced, "int-TEG-urs" as in "good" rather than the proper "gel")

Response: "There's some more of your immigrenglish."
by LordMaul February 17, 2006
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immigrunts

Derogatory slang for immigrants. Mainly from people who do not welcome immigrants into their society.
"These flippin' Immigrunts should stop taking our money and go back home!"
by Donny English March 23, 2008
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illigrant

Someone who enters the country illegally, but is eventually allowed to stay.
Kap was worried when everyone found out he was an illigrant. But after being here for twenty years, no one cared he entered the country illegally.
by texsox October 3, 2007
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comprehensive immigration reform

A term used by the liberals and radical anti-American groups to refer to the policy of granting amnesty to illegal aliens.
Obama wants comprehensive immigration reform so 20 million illegals can vote him back into office forever.
by keep the change March 19, 2009
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Immigration act of '92

The excuse and series of laws in which one or more male(s) generally in pairs, between the ages of 15 and 17, use against younger women as a way to avoid certain confrontation over specefied subjects, or to hold undeserved authority.
"no you can't have your beloved waynes world video back due to the immigration act of '92."

"The immigration act of 92' prevents me from going into further detail about your missing movie."
by iwantmymovieback August 24, 2008
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement

(US GOVERNMENT) Agency created in 2003 by merging the enforcement arm of the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) with that of the US Customs Service (see Customs and Border Protection {CPB}). It is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The ICE employs 19,000 people worldwide and has a budget of about $5.7 billion (comparable to the military budget of Algeria or Norway). It is responsible for Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) of removable aliens.

The ICE also violates international laws on human rights by deporting immigrants (legal or not) accused of a crime (this is known as exile and violates international norms of criminal justice). This program is called "Secure Communities" and of course only makes communities a lot LESS secure; it has exiled over 14,000 immigrants for petty offices such as traffic violations.

The dog-and-pony show of the ICE is its Office of Investigations (OI). This "investigates, deters and interdicts ...arms and strategic technology exports, ...money laundering, ...media piracy, smuggling (contraband, narcotics and aliens), immigration fraud, transnational gangs, ...child exploitation and pornography..." The OI basically issues press releases for publication as "news" by lazy newsmedia. The fact remains that human trafficking is a tiny affair with few reliably documented cases, and the US is not dependent on imported porn.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a surplus agency of the US government that mostly duplicates the efforts of Customs and Border Protection and Citizenship and Immigration Services. It operates a gigantic, corporate-run incarceration system that surpasses anything Kafka, Orwell, or Solzhenitsyn ever wrote about.
by Primus Intra Pares June 19, 2010
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(U.S. GOVERNMENT) successor to the investigations and processing arm of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) of the USA. In 2003, the INS was dissolved and its enforcement arm transferred to the new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The INS had formerly been part of the Justice Department; the CIS is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The CIS is responsible for incarcerating hundreds of thousands of people each year, mostly for petty paperwork filing errors or traffic stops.
She spent months struggling with the wretched, burned-out bureaucracy of the Citizenship and Immigration Services, wondering how anyone could enter the country legally without violating the laws of physics.
by Primus Intra Pares September 4, 2010
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