immigrant

Example Sentences

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Protests erupted last month outside an immigrant detention facility in New Jersey after detainees launched a hunger and labor strike over what they called inhumane conditions such as rotten food and medical neglect.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

At first, the immigrant teachers provided my children with useful lessons about the core beliefs and practices of Islam, and my children enjoyed exploring the cultural diversity of the families there.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026

At another entrance, reporters clustered around New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the first formerly undocumented immigrant to serve in Congress.

From Slate • May 29, 2026

We were a family of five, then six, then seven children, nine in that small space, and we had brought the ways of the European immigrant enclaves of Brooklyn and the Bronx with us.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Dressed in a Balkan costume of vest, ballooning trousers, and high leather boots, the immigrant carries his possessions bundled on a stick.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides