emigrate (v.) "to quit one country, state, or region and settle in another," 1778, a back-formation from emigration, or else from Latin emigratus, past participle of emigrare "move away, depart from a place," from assimilated form of ex "out" (see ex-) + migrare "to move" (from PIE root *mei- (1) "to change, go, move"). In 19c. U.S., also "to remove from one state to another state or territory.”

coming up from the street
on the path between
my apartment building and the
building next door
there were explosions
the crash and popping of empty
wine bottles
coming from above
glass skewered and blasting off
in all directions.
I unlocked my door and went inside
it was a good warm afternoon
in late May
the flowers were giving it their best
everywhere.
I took all my clothes off and
stretched out on the
bed.
then I heard voices outside
voices of other people who
lived in my building:
"there are a couple of Puerto Ricans up
there! they live on the roof
next door!"
"they drink and throw their
bottles down!"
"yes, I know. I've called the
cops but the cops don't do
nothin'!"
"yeah, they're too busy writing tickets!"
"there's a woman up there on the roof, she's
wearing red leotards!"
"he's wearing a bandanna on his head
and he's always screaming
and throwing things down, bottles,
trash, everything!"
"we'll get up a petition! we'll have
that building condemned!"
"yes, a petition! I used to live in
that building! horrible things go on
in there!"
"we'll get a petition!"

the next day the manager of my apartment
finds me outside parking my
Volks.
as I get out she
shoves a clipboard at me.
she has 26 signatures already.
"Han. .." she starts to
say.
"no," I say.
"Han. .." she starts to say
again.

in that building live the poor,
the poor Blacks and Mexicans and a
few crazy Orientals.
it's a last chance for them
the last low-rent building
between them and the street.

"Hank," she says, "why
not?"

"because," I tell her, "some day
somebody will get up a petition to get
rid of me."

she laughs
not understanding at
all.

I walk on down the path
unlock my door
go inside:
just another crazy white
loser.

terrorists by Charles Bukowski collected in Open All Night: New Poems

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"The inquiry revealed that their prisoner, a sixteen-year-old youth, spoke only one word of English" — News Item

Their first punch broke his nose,
the second closed one eye.
"Canada, Canada," he yelled.

Now one of the torturers,
having painfully twisted his wrist
punching out the prisoner's nose,
began to film the festivities
with a hand-held movie-camera.

With arms and legs tied,
they pushed lighted matches
between his finger-nails and toe-nails.
"Canada, Canada," he screamed again.

The cigarette-lighter's flame
soon burned into his foreskin.
"Canada," he moaned.

After that his head drooped,
and when they were tired
of punching in his chest
one of them stuck a bayonet
up to its hilt in his stomach.

They say he took another hour
to finally die.
There were no more "Canadas."

"CANADA" by Raymond Souster collected in Close To Home

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Nationalism is a self-constructed cage in which family can huddle in safety when they're not growling and barking at someone outside the cage. One people baring their teeth at all comers is the dream of every nationalist and religious fanatic the world over. The real horror movie monsters would run at the sight of these people, who only yesterday were someone's quiet and kind neighbors and who will probably resume being that after the killing is done. Charles Simic 𖤐 The Unemployed Fortune-Teller 

migrate (v.) 1690s, "to from one place to another," from Latin migratus, past participle of migrare "to move from one place to another," probably originally *migwros, from PIE *(e)meigw- (source of Greek ameibein "to change"), which is an extended form of root *mei- (1) "to change, go, move" or perhaps a separate root. Of animals, "to remove from one habitat to another at a distance," by 1753. Specifically of persons or groups by 1770, "to or remove from one place of residence to another at a distance," especially from one country to another. Related: Migrated; migrating. "To migrate is to change one's abode, especially to a distance or to another country, emphasis being laid upon the change, but not upon the place of departure or that of stopping, and the stay being generally not permanent. Emigrate, to migrate from, views the person as leaving his previous abode and making a new home; immigrate, to migrate into, views him as coming to the new place. The Arab migrates; the European coming to America is an emigrant to those whom he leaves, and an immigrant to the Americans." [Century Dictionary, 1897]

immigrate (v.) "to into a place as a new inhabitant or resident," especially "to move to a country where one is not a native, for the purpose of settling permanently there," 1620s, from Latin immigratus, past participle of immigrare "to remove, go into, move in," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (from PIE root *en "in") + migrare "to move" (see migration).

foreign (adj.) c. 1300, ferren, foran, foreyne, in reference to places, "outside the boundaries of a country;" of persons, "born in another country," from Old French forain "strange, foreign; outer, external, outdoor; remote, out-of-the-way" (12c.), from Medieval Latin foraneus "on the outside, exterior," from Latin foris (adv.) "outside," literally "out of doors," related to foris "a door," from PIE *dhwor-ans-, suffixed form of root *dhwer- "door, doorway." English spelling altered 17c., perhaps by influence of reign, sovereign. Sense of "alien to one's nature, not connected with, extraneous" attested late 14c. Meaning "pertaining to another country" (as in foreign policy) is from 1610s.

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The Last Stop is a 2012 film directed by Marcio Cury