Example sentences for: migra

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

  • Cartoons and jokes often depict la migra officials as overweight policemen who chase down innocent women and children.

  • Native-born Chicano children have played a game of “la migra chasing the Mexican,” similar to the “cowboys and Indians” games of earlier generations.

  • Migra is short for the Spanish word immigración, and has become an important and viable character in the vocabulary and culture of Chicanos and Mexicanos alike.

  • In recent years la migra has acquired a much more sinister image as individual abuses are shown on television evening news programs.

  • La migra is an abbreviated and slang term for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the Border Patrol.


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