immigrant
Example Sentences
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I’m spreading a bit of holiday cheer because for immigrants, on the whole, this has been a horrible year.
From Los Angeles Times
Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.
From Salon
Archival photos, maps and short films trace the Chinese-Canadian experience, starting in the late-1880s when a wave of immigrants arrived to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
And his character is complex in novel ways: The child of Chinese immigrants, Alexander was reared by people almost desperate to Americanize themselves, and he too has a hunger to be accepted.
In Texas, undocumented immigrants have reported staying home as much as possible to avoid being targeted by immigration officers or police, and only going out for essential trips like going to work or buying groceries.
From Salon
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