Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The official status of an alien.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being an alien; the legal standing of an alien.
- noun The state of being alienated or transferred to another; alienation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or legal condition of being an alien.
- noun The state of being alienated or transferred to another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The status of being an
alien ; being from elsewhere
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being alien
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is also essential to understanding alienage and citizenship.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Shedding Light on the AZ Immigration Law 2010
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In my tenure, there were times that it would have been very helpful if we had enough detention space available to hold the aliens who were being processed for removal It takes a large number of agents to process aliens to determine alienage.
Quote of the Day, Doesn’t Have A Clue edition. | RedState 2010
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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected, so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or “outsideness” without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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In her decision, Bolton also found that "race, alienage, or national origin discrimination was a motivating factor in the enactment of S.B. 1070," and maintained that the lawsuit was appropriate due to the "alleged harm to the organizational plaintiffs will occur if S.B. 1070 goes into effect, regardless of how it is enforced or applied."
Federal Judge Rejects Jan Brewer's Challenge To Arizona Immigration Lawsuit The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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My point is that I found there were only so many agents to do the job 24×7x365 and there were times that I had to make decisions that would allow my agents to work toward placing criminals in jail (to be followed by deportation based on an alienage determination)
Quote of the Day, Doesn’t Have A Clue edition. | RedState 2010
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Much alienage of the right kind, thank Tsathoggua.
Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Only the Federal Government can make an alienage determination.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Arizona Immigration Law Preempted? 2010
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In her decision, Bolton also found that "race, alienage, or national origin discrimination was a motivating factor in the enactment of S.B. 1070," and maintained that the lawsuit was appropriate due to the "alleged harm to the organizational plaintiffs will occur if S.B. 1070 goes into effect, regardless of how it is enforced or applied."
Federal Judge Rejects Jan Brewer's Challenge To Arizona Immigration Lawsuit The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The concept of alienage goes back to the middle ages, if not before, and the United States passed an Alien And Sedition Act in 1798.
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The concept of alienage goes back to the middle ages, if not before, and the United States passed an Alien And Sedition Act in 1798.
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