Word: alienating
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...reason was found in the rapid growth of the "nonimmigrant alien" class. These aliens are supposed to be visitors or tourists...
Last month Marcus Garvey's term was commuted by President Coolidge, at the insistence of Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent. Since Marcus Garvey had never taken out his final citizenship papers, he was eligible for deportation as an undesirable alien...
...consequently denied to him, he went to Berlin and there studied medicine (1903-6), thence to Zürich to study law (1907), thence to Vienna to study law & medicine. His departure from Berlin was precipitated by the authorities who, on account of his radicalism, considered him an undesirable alien...
Dispatches from the alien world of English university life are not often of a nature to cause the student at Harvard to bow his head and give thanks for present blessings. Of this kind, however, is the information from Oxford that rules have been put into effect by the University restricting the under-graduate use of automobiles. No freshman is permitted to own a car; an upper classman must get a special license for ownership from the disciplinary authorities of the university. Trips to the English Wellesley are precluded by another regulation which restricts the rental...
...cannot be a halfway citizen under that flag. . . . We have a great deal to give when we confer citizenship upon an alien. It is like admitting a new stockholder, and he or she should be willing to do what the other stockholders have obligated themselves to do. We must forget our various views on pacifism when war comes...