America is still a country to where immigrants flee - not the other way around.

As a result, many immigrants have fled the state.

The 2,000 immigrants were fleeing the slave revolution in the north of the island.

Many immigrants, fleeing lands of desperate poverty, find even bad jobs a step up.

Another, smaller group from this time period were Jewish immigrants fleeing Hitler.

After a 1909 mob attack on the community, Greek immigrants fled from Omaha.

The bill also included $80 million to provide new detention centers for Central American immigrants fleeing their storm-ravaged countries.

Many governments, for example, now look more skeptically at claims that immigrants have fled persecution, especially when they are from the former Soviet Union.

By 1880s, the influx rose to 5.2 million, as immigrants fled persecution and unrest in eastern and southern Europe.

The city's robust economic growth from trade increased population and immigrants fled to the West bank to relieve the increasingly crowded East bank.