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immigrant

[im-i-gruhnt] / ˈɪm ɪ grənt /


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“Talking with large shell contractors, large builders, I don’t think they fully anticipated or estimated the amount of immigrant labor that are on our job sites every day,” said Brannock, the Jacksonville builder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Like any group of people, the Somali immigrant community contains good and bad people in it, but on the whole, their very existence is a testament to human tenacity.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Another protester, a 32-year-old Kosovar immigrant who gave his name as Kobe, said his own experience of war made him want to "stand up today and not let history repeat" itself.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

Debs was born in 1855 in Terre Haute, Ind., to French immigrant parents who read to him from Victor Hugo and cherished the ideals of the French Revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

Part of the American dream is being able to move beyond working that 60-hour week that so many recent immigrants have to put in to survive.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Soviet Jewish immigrants arrived in large numbers during the 1990s, while affordable housing later attracted growing numbers of ultra-Orthodox families.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

An average of 1,686 immigrants were detained at the center daily as of July, according to TRAC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

It is one of the poorest areas of France, home to a large population of recent immigrants from the developing world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The pains of being the kids of immigrants.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan


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