The foreign broadcasts are usually delayed, timed to American hours and cleansed of advertising for products that immigrants here cannot buy.

Under his direction, the immigrants bought land on North Orchard St. and set about the task of building a church.

Illegal immigrants have turned increasingly to bona fide documents, stolen or bought by traffickers from actual Americans.

Asian immigrants are pouring into Flushing, starting small businesses and buying real estate.

July 20, 1837 - The new immigrants bought a small farm near St. Francisville where they stayed for several months.

By the mid-19th century, Irish and German immigrants were buying farms, but the area remained sparsely settled.

As a result, more Haitian immigrants are buying shortwave radios to keep informed about matters like their native country's new, democratically elected government.

Scandinavian immigrants bought land and began farming in 1891.

Many immigrants buy their passage having little idea of the dangers they will face, officials at the International Organization for Migration said.

Not all the immigrants are buying factories and building shopping centers.