21.   Despite the terse warning, which an immigration officer read to Li at the airport, officials said he would probably be allowed to return to his teaching position.

22.   Every day, some immigration officers rise above their daily tribulations and hobbling constraints to offer compassionate, intelligent service.

23.   Federal officials have been understandably vague about specifics, but reportedly would send plain-clothes immigration officers and federal marshals to the house.

24.   Giraldo had gone to the downtown Manhattan immigration office for a scheduled interview with an immigration officer, one of the steps in his quest for permanent residency.

25.   He was placed unescorted on an airplane in Miami, with the expectation that immigration officers would meet him as he disembarked at John F. Kennedy Airport.

26.   Her husband Gilbert, an immigration officer, accepted the folded flag and then an embrace, and the hearse left for the airport.

27.   How will immigration officers know, for example, when applicants hiked across the Mexican border or came ashore in Florida?

28.   His dad fought at Guadalcanal with the U.S. Marine Corps, then became a U.S. immigration officer in charge of the Bahama Islands.

29.   Immigrants seeking asylum here without proper travel documents could be turned away by low-level immigration officers.

30.   Immigration officers are feeling the pressure.