restrictionist

American  

[ri-strik-shuhn-ist] / rɪˈstrɪk ʃən ɪst /

noun

plural

restrictionists

1. a person who supports or advocates for the addition of restrictions on a policy or practice, especially on the amount of immigration or imported goods allowed into a country.

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adjective

1. of or relating to restrictionism.

Other Word Forms

• restrictionism noun

Example Sentences

In meetings, he sometimes clashed heatedly with Gene Hamilton, an attorney working on security issues at DHS who is now at the Justice Department, and had a reputation as an immigration restrictionist.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2020

Though Mr. Miller was often the driving force, many of these changes were longstanding goals of the restrictionist movement.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2019

In moving to Sessions’ Senate suite, Miller arrived at a crossroads for the restrictionist movement’s people and ideas.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2019

Those on the restrictionist side use the image to symbolize an unruly border, adding guns or nuclear bombs to political cartoons of the sign.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2018

This delimitation of the immigration problem to its economic aspects led the Immigration Commission to recommend a somewhat restrictionist policy.

From The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various