green-carder
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Noun[edit]
green-carder (plural green-carders)
- Alternative form of green carder
- 1971, Peter Matthiessen, Sal si puedes: Cesar Chavez and the new American Revolution, page 17:
- The man with the fighting cock on his shirt was a Union green-carder who did not wish to cross the picket lines.
- 1973, Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., Chicanos and Rural Poverty, page 36:
- In theory, the green-carder is identical to any other resident immigrant; in fact, this is not the case.
- 1978, Stephen H. Sosnick, Hired hands: seasonal farm workers in the United, page 422:
- If a commuting citizen or green-carder becomes a resident, he and his resident dependents would become eligible for federal food stamps, state benefits to medical indigents, and county general assistance