migrant
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He imagines himself as a migrant: “I lived outside of Dallas / Rundown shack of a place / I was handcuffed and arrested / It don’t make no sense.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"The pope's visit speaks to every one of us," Kandeh Abdourahman, a migrant who arrived in Lampedusa in 2015, told news agency Reuters.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Twana Jamal, once described as "the godfather" of migrant camps in northern France, was recently confronted by our reporting team while running one of the stores, in Blaby on the outskirts of Leicester.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
But with Tajikistan being economically dependent on Moscow and hundreds of thousands of Tajik migrant workers living in Russia, practical realities limit the drive to shed Russian influence.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
They turn out to be little separate creatures, the colonial posterity of migrant prokaryocytes, probably primitive bacteria that swam into ancestral precursors of our eukaryotic cells and stayed there.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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But with low unemployment easing concerns about Cubans taking jobs, Brazilians are largely accepting of the new migrants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Mexico has lodged formal complaints about the treatment of migrants in the U.S. with the U.N.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
By 2024, some 40% of residents aged 15 to 24 were either migrants or had parents who immigrated to Germany, according to government data—for those under 15, the proportion was 43%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
But the IOM insisted the "humanitarian assistance to migrants" it provides is "strictly voluntary and based on informed consent."
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
With enthusiasm, most newly arrived migrants set out to become a respected part of their adopted city.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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