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undocumented

[ uhn-dok-yuh-men-tid ]

adjective

  1. lacking documentation or authentication.
  2. lacking proper immigration or working papers: undocumented immigrants.

    an undocumented worker;

    undocumented immigrants.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of undocumented1

First recorded in 1880–85; un- 1 + documented ( def )
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A judge in Wisconsin has been arrested by US federal authorities after allegedly trying to help an undocumented immigrant who appeared in her court avoid arrest.

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GMO corn and recently asking television stations to pull what she called “discriminatory” ads produced by the Trump administration warning against undocumented migration.

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The rules have put some undocumented families in a desperate situation, leaving children who crossed the border unaccompanied languishing for months in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the advocates say.

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“He’s the right director because I don’t have to explain to him the pain of being undocumented,” said López.

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The Dominican Republic says it has arrested more than 130 Haitian women and children on the first day of a crackdown of undocumented migrants in Santo Domingo's hospitals.

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