In the context of the European Union (EU), British newspapers reportedly present mostly negative or partial constructions of immigrants. These representations add to imperiling the integration of this group, as their social construction reflects and affects the attitudes of EU citizens and the immigration policies. This inuiry explores the collocational profile of the lemma ‘migrant’ in the UK legislation and UK Administration informative texts from 2007 to 2011. Whilst the results display that the UK Administration evades an explicit negative construction of immigrants coming to the United Kingdom, it is found that they are partly constructed as a homogeneous, well-categorized group via a very restricted set of lexical items that tend to prime their adscription to tiers. It is asserted that the representation of immigrants in the legislation indicates that UK laws and official information during the period 2007–2011 were more centered on justifying the control over this group of individuals than on generating the conditions for better integration policies.