However, unlike most previous immigrants, many of them have also experienced or witnessed government-sponsored torture and/or terror.
Unlike immigrants, political refugees face the risk of death, imprisonment or persecution in their homeland.
Unlike other immigrants, these applicants need not have family members already in this country or special skills in short supply here.
Unlike other immigrants, he said, he frequently tells his family back home about the realities of life in America, lest others be misled into coming.
Unlike most immigrants who arrived earlier in the century, they tended to remain in close social circles and not mix with other local ethnicities.
Italians mostly brought their entire families with them, unlike other immigrants.
Unlike immigrants, refugees have no country to return to.
Indeed, workers who are unlike immigrants see a net gain; more foreign doctors increases the demand for native hospital administrators.
And unlike European immigrants of yore, they do not drink alcohol.
Unlike other immigrants, most blacks arrived in this country as slaves.