alienage
IPA: ˈeɪɫiʌneɪdʒ
noun
- The status of being an alien; origin from elsewhere.
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Examples of "alienage" in Sentences
- Much alienage of the right kind, thank Tsathoggua.
- It is also essential to understanding alienage and citizenship.
- Only the Federal Government can make an alienage determination.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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."
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