How to Use migrant in a Sentence

migrant

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  • The death of migrants in the desert has been ongoing for decades.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The office did not say if the migrant attempted to use the weapon.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • In April, the city took migrants from Truman College and sent them to a shelter in the Loop.
    — John Byrne, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
  • So many of us are migrants or the descendants of migrants.
    — José Olivarez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Last month, the city began busing dozens of migrants to a handful of hotels north of the city.
    — Jake Offenhartz, ajc, 7 June 2023
  • That changed in the 1990s as meat packers began to recruit more migrants and refugees.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Some migrants are given more time to stay in the United States than others.
    — Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The judge noted that such pathways are not available to all migrants.
    — Rebecca Santana, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
  • On the basketball court, some gasped in horror when bandits opened fire on a group of migrants on the screen.
    — Elian Peltier Annika Hammerschlag, New York Times, 18 May 2024
  • In order to get to the border these days, migrants almost always have to pay.
    — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 10 June 2024
  • Colombia happens to be a key steppingstone for migrants from around the world.
    — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • What’s got migrants rushing to the U.S. southern border?
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The migrants just keep marching, at times signaling to each other to crouch lower to keep out of view.
    — David Culver, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The first batch of migrants was bused to a makeshift tent city in Brooklyn on Sunday and took one look and were ready to leave, according to reports.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Thousands of migrants live upstairs in its 1,025 rooms.
    — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 25 May 2024
  • And yes, migrants need to be treated like human beings.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Authorities did not confirm how many migrants died, or what caused the trip to fail.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Mexico defends its efforts to deal with the flow of migrants.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The new deployments come amid concerns and reports of a new increase in migrants.
    — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But these pleas have been followed by ever-larger waves of migrants.
    — Juan Arredondo, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Most of these southern Black migrants would have been only five years out of bondage, only five years in freedom.
    — Susanna Ashton, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024
  • Holland contrasts the treatment of Ukrainian refugees with that of the migrants from outside Europe.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The White House ended the suite of policies, including Remain in Mexico, that had stopped the flow of migrants to the border.
    — The Editors, National Review, 6 Oct. 2023
  • But his life was shockingly cut short when the Venezuelan migrant was struck in the head by a stray bullet in front of his brothers on an East Harlem street.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
  • One of the migrants died from the thrashings, and another committed suicide.
    — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The urgency is not the need to protect Americans from migrants.
    — Jenn Budd, Orange County Register, 21 May 2024
  • Varadkar noted that the suspect, though a migrant, is an Irish citizen and has been living in the country for more than 20 years.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The case was soon seized upon as evidence that migrants should be blocked from entering the country.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The president and his aides have pointed to their efforts to provide more migrants with a chance to receive work permits.
    — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Listen to this article One of the killers wanted for a double fatal shooting at a Brooklyn migrant shelter – part of a violent Venezuelan migrant gang war that has left three dead – has been charged, police said Friday.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024

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