Immigrant invasion
Immigrant invasion—or similar phrases that imply that "immigrants are invading the homeland", is a rhetoric that is used by those who favor nativist, nationalist, and sometimes racist or xenophobic policies. == Nativism and immigrant invasion == According to the 2004 book entitled Migration Between States and Markets, the phrases "immigrant invasion" or "illegal alien invasion" and similar iterations, are used by nativists to describe what they believe are unassimilated and unassimilable immigrants.