border jumper

plural border jumpers · alternative borderjumper

1. derogatoryethnicoffensiveslurAn undocumented immigrant

   A record total of 87,416 border jumpers was caught last month

   1953, “Mexican Border Jumpers Set Two-a-Minute Mark in April”, in Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce Appropriation Bill, 1954: Hearings, Eighty-third Congress, First Session on H.R. 4974, U.S. Government Printing Office

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   Secretary of Labor Davis advocates registration as an effective way of outwitting the border jumper and the smuggled alien

   1925, de C. Ward, Robert, “The New Immigration Law”, in James McKeen Cattell, editor, The Scientific Monthly, volume 21, New York: The Science Press, page 51

   By implementing such programs, the South African authorities did not just seek to make it difficult for migrants to cross the border through undesignated points but also sent the message that they treated every border jumper as an enemy of the state

   2020 April 7, Musoni, Francis, Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 129

   1. USbroadlyderogatoryethnicoffensiveslurAny Hispanic person.

      She finally ends her rant with “You f***ing border jumper” as she pushes me back into my buggy.

      2019, MissMafiaa, “Border jumper?!”, in Reddit, retrieved 27 Aug 2025