Read the sentence from an argumentative essay on employment in the United States. Even today, many foreigners continue to emigrate to the United States in hopes of finding new job opportunities. Which edit corrects the error in the sentence?

Emigrate means to leave one country to settle in another. Since the sentence describes people coming to the United States, the correct verb is immigrate. The sentence should say that many foreigners continue to immigrate to the United States.

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