Besides inducing illegal immigrants here to come out of the shadows, the program would also discourage new immigrants from sneaking across the border.

Republicans attempted, unsuccessfully, to push a measure that would discourage even legal immigrants.

Civil libertarians contend that the heightened scrutiny has discouraged illegal immigrants from seeking marriage, which case law has held to be a fundamental right protected under the Constitution.

France has tended to be stricter along its borders with Italy and Spain (to discourage illegal immigrants from North Africa), but even this is changing.

Those efforts, he said, have discouraged illegal immigrants from trying to enter the country.

We have to discourage illegal immigrants so as not to poison public opinion about legal immigrants.

As far as Daily Mail obsessions go, this is comparable to their objecting to the occupation on the grounds that it'll discourage immigrants from coming here.

Leaders of immigration advocacy groups said the higher fees would discourage legal immigrants from becoming American citizens.

Furthermore, Morristown's own police chief, Peter Demnitz, has been cool to the mayor's plan; he thinks it could discourage immigrants from reporting crimes against them.

The agents, called Grupo Beta, try to discourage immigrants from crossing the border by warning them of the dangers.