Example sentences for: noncitizens

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

  • More than 500 million people annually cross U.S. borders at legal entry points, about 330 million of them noncitizens.

  • While visitors from "visa waiver" countries will be added to the program, beginning this year, covered travelers will still constitute only about 12 percent of all noncitizens crossing U.S. borders.

  • 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.

  • State-level data on the percentage of the population uninsured and the percentage of the population comprised of foreign-born noncitizens were obtained from the 2000 Current Population Survey, March Supplement, a detailed description of which is available elsewhere [ 21 ] . Because the Medicare program covers virtually all Americans aged 65 and older, data on insurance coverage rates among nonelderly populations were used.

  • 5 million (± 350000) legal permanent residents residing in the United States as of April 1996 [ 18 ] . To qualify for Medicaid coverage after the ban, noncitizens must not receive public benefits during the 5-year period [ 15 ] . Legal immigrants receiving benefits at the time of enactment on August 22, 1996, were denied continuation of those benefits starting January 1, 1997.


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