Collocations for immigrant - noun

illegal | foreign | Irish, Italian, Jewish, etc. | recent | would-be | first-generation, second-generation
First-generation immigrants may dream of returning ‘home’; their children say Britain is their home.

flood, influx, wave

accept, welcome | deport, return
ships laden with would-be immigrants who were forcibly returned

arrive, enter sth
immigrants seeking to enter the country

come from sth | settle (sth)
European immigrants settled much of Australia.

community, family, group, population | worker | labour

~ from, ~ to
She was the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America.