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/^t/Immigrants. People coming as settlers into another country. Neither tourists nor visitors. They escape from poverty and very often from political persecution. They look for better jobs, wages, for better lives. Nobody wants them. Hardly anybody tolerates them. The people look different, speak differently and behave in a different way. On the most part, they refuse to accept the culture of the country they came into. It happens quite often that the overwhelming majority of immigrants stay in the particular country illegally. The influx of the illegal immigrants constitutes a serious problem to many countries, the solution of which demands sometimes very "cruel" means.