Sentence examples for immigrant illusions from inspiring English sources
They have immigrant skills and immigrant illusions, and they come from countries that are themselves in the process of migrating: in one novel a Russia that wants to be America, in another an America that imagines it is not Russia.
Farther west, past Second Avenue, sirens from the emergency entrance of Cabrini Medical Center, named for St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the Roman Catholic patron saint of immigrants, will interrupt any illusions of having arrived yet at Gramercy Park.
He expelled 700,000 immigrants under the illusion that this would create jobs for Nigerians.
He fit my illusion, maybe delusion, of the prototypical Mexican immigrant; short, dark, stocky, only older, and of course willing to do the work we Americans will no longer do.
From the start, Bezmozgis overturns clichéd expectations of immigrant idealism; he knows his characters too well to have any illusions about them.
After a hard-fought final round, judges gave the women-only award to Andrea Levy's Small Island, a comedy about the punctured illusions, tribulations and spry adaptability of the pioneer Windrush generation of immigrants to Britain in the early 1950s.
Standing on the promenade, looking across the water and toward Manhattan's East Side, Maya Maslova, 67, a Russian immigrant who has lived on Roosevelt Island for five years, said the view has "the illusion of something romantic".
The classic urban political machine came to power by giving dispossessed immigrants access -- or the illusion of access -- to City Hall.
Mr Brokenshire said immigrants "should be under no illusion" about arriving in the UK illegally.
