immigrant
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Choi, who was born in Seoul, grew up in an immigrant family that bounced from Koreatown to West Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The 45-year-old grew up in Hawaii to Vietnamese immigrant parents who ran a Honolulu sandwich shop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Last week, the New York Times reported that an immigrant had died at Delaney Hall from lack of medical care, the third such case in less than a year.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Sabine Dulcio, a Haitian immigrant, runs an event-planning company in North Miami with a mostly Haitian staff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
A few weeks after Enrique arrived in Nuevo Laredo, Mexican immigrant Eusebio de Haro Espinosa, twenty-three, went up to a rancher in Bracketville, Texas, forty miles from the border, and asked for water.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
The settlement affirmed that immigrants who perform work while detained are considered employees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The council requires hundreds more immigrants each year just to keep the population stable.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
These devices collect information about immigrants, citizens and protesters.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Haitian immigrants have been reporting to the ICE office in this Cincinnati suburb since.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
White packinghouse workers in Chicago felt a bond with the Argo immigrants.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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