immigrant
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Construction, which employs a lot of immigrant workers, added 22,000 jobs last month, with gains concentrated in the specialty-trade contracting work that continues to benefit from the AI build-out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
In those households, Eimbcke witnessed immigrant parents speaking Spanish to their children who replied to them in English.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
His mother, however, told a local immigrant rights group that she believed he hadn’t received his medication for diabetes, high blood pressure and seizures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Over the weekend, a Salvadoran immigrant being held at the notorious Delaney Hall detention center in New Jersey died after experiencing a medical emergency, the second death the facility has seen since December.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
She brought immigrant women together with American men and helped them marry.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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Immigration attorneys and other advocates quickly convened Thursday to determine how the ruling will affect immigrants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
We skirted Penny Island, where native Pomo people lived and farmed for generations before immigrants from Europe arrived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Haitian immigrants have been reporting to the ICE office in this Cincinnati suburb since.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
The Dominican Republic’s policies on Haitian immigrants and refugees are significantly tougher than those of the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Later they swapped the apples for wood, and the Irish immigrants who played called the disk a poc—the word for punch or strike a blow.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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