A preemptive action is made to keep some other action from being taken. Before you could be accused of eating the whole cake, you decided to make a preemptive apology, which was met with awkward silence. Tired of being disturbed by your roommate's loud music, your preemptive strike was to crank up your favorite opera as soon as you arrived home. Unfortunately, he'd already made a preemptive strike of his own by borrowing your stereo. Don't confuse preemptive with peremptory, a word meaning âarrogant.â You don't have to be arrogant to make a preemptive move, just cautious.
Ellis Island was the entry point for twelve million people, about three-fourths of the migrants who entered the United States between 1892 and 1924. On its busiest day, April 17, 1907, Ellis Island officials processed 11,747 immigrants. Other federal immigrant processing stations were established at Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay.
This report contains a summary of observations by the Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) following its July 2009 visit to Australiaâs immigration detention facilities on Christmas Island. It follows the Commissionâs 2006, 2007 and 2008 annual reports on inspections of immigration detention facilities.hen the Commission visited Christmas Island in July 2009, there were 82 children in immigration detention on the island, including 14 girls and 68 boys. The majority were 16 or 17 years old, but a significant number were much younger-including 12 aged between zero and five years.