Example sentences for: noncitizens

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

  • Census data suggest that noncitizens are more likely than citizens to be poor (29% vs 16%), despite the fact that noncitizen families are as likely as citizen families to have at least one full-time worker (82% vs 85%) [ 22 ] . In their report on insurance rates for Hispanic immigrants, the Commonwealth Fund Task Force on the Future of Health Insurance found that the longer Hispanic immigrants had been permanent residents of the United States, the more likely they were to be covered by employer-related insurance [ 23 ] . Among low-income immigrants in the United States in 1999, 59% were uninsured, compared to 30% of low-income citizens [ 22 ] . The Kaiser Commission reports that immigrants may underutilize health care regardless of insurance coverage, out of fear of jeopardizing their citizenship eligibility by incurring costs as public charges [ 22 ] .

  • Reforms focused partly on immigrants, following testimony from the General Accounting Office estimating that slightly more than half of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits provided to elderly persons were collected by noncitizens in 1995 [ 13 14 ] . In justifying PRWORA [ 15 ] , the House Ways and Means Committee stated that it had been a basic tenet of US immigration policy since 1882 that legal immigrants should not be eligible for public benefits.

  • Would William Safire write a column about it every 15 minutes and use the loaded word "aliens" to describe European noncitizens?

  • States with the highest percentages of foreign-born noncitizens in 1994 were California (18.

  • If the Huang case is novel, it would have to be as a deliberate and systematic violation of the laws regarding contributions by noncitizens.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast