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migrant

[mahy-gruhnt] / ˈmaɪ grənt /


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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's revision of settlement plans for migrant care workers features prominently in Tuesday's papers.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Tijuana's migrant shelters, once overflowing, are now closed or barely operating.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

He continued to face criticism for the disappearance of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children who were supposed to be monitored by the agency’s Office of Refugee Resettlement after entering the country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Without direct access to the small circle of migrant potters who knew these methods, Tampa Bay residents would have had little opportunity to learn them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

They turn out to be little separate creatures, the colonial posterity of migrant prokaryocytes, probably primitive bacteria that swam into ancestral precursors of our eukaryotic cells and stayed there.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

To qualify for settlement, migrants will also have to meet other conditions including:

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

The changes will apply to migrants who are already in the UK but not those who have already been granted settlement.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

She had proposed to extend the wait for permanent settlement from the current five years to 10 with some lower-paid migrants facing a 15-year wait.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

"They're asking for $10,000," he said, referring to human smugglers -- often called coyotes -- who charge vast sums to help migrants enter the US.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

It was the last stop on Route 66, end of the line for truckers, tourists, and migrants from the East.

From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser


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