Words similar to migra

Example sentences for: migra

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La migra is an abbreviated and slang term for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the Border Patrol.
The phrase “hay viene la migra!”
Starting in the late 1940s and into the present, la migra made raids in the San Joaquin Valley of California, rounding up braceros who had overstayed their contract time allocation.
In the folk dramas of El Teatro Campesino (the Farmworkers’ Theater), la migra was often characterized as an unscrupulous arrogant patrol officer who accepted bribes from the growers and ordered raids in the agricultural fields to arrest undocumented immigrants the day before payday.
In recent years la migra has acquired a much more sinister image as individual abuses are shown on television evening news programs.