Example sentences for: immigrants

How can you use “immigrants” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When a panelist remarks that many immigrants are valedictorians, Stein sneers, "You and I should visit some federal prisons together."

  • The Scots were Gaelic-speaking immigrants from the north of Ireland.

  • Some Mexican-Americans refer to themselves as "Chicanos ," a pejorative term from the 1920s for lower-class Mexican immigrants that was embraced in the late 1960s and early 1970s by Mexican-Americans seeking a new political identity.

  • The proxy of percentage foreign-born may not have accurately captured the population of interest - legal immigrants arriving after August 22, 1996, who were no longer eligible for nonemergency Medicaid coverage.

  • Under pressure from the White House and immigrants' advocacy groups, Congress restored some Medicaid benefits to certain legal immigrants as part of the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 [ 19 20 ] . Under the BBA, a legal immigrant could qualify for Medicaid (not restricted to emergency Medicaid) through SSI eligibility if he or she was lawfully in the United States and receiving SSI benefits on August 22, 1996, and subsequently certified under the SSI program as blind or disabled.


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