How to Use anti-immigrant in a Sentence

anti-immigrant

adjective
  • What unsettles me just as deeply is the anti-immigrant mood on the ground.
    Valeng Cha, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
  • This is not about being anti-immigrant.
    Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
  • At the same time, the party has been criticized for its staunch anti-immigrant stance.
    Mitchell McCluskey, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The city recently found anti-immigrant and racist signs installed along a busy street.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Last year, one of its stores in Hull, a port city on the northeast coast, was ransacked amid far-right, anti-immigrant protests.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In the last decade, there has been an increase in anti-immigrant framing of stories across media outlets.
    Nicholas Dimarzio, New York Daily News, 13 June 2025
  • Coulter, known for her racist and anti-immigrant stances, attacked India, as well.
    Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The world has been engulfed by an anti-global, anti-immigrant backlash.
    TIME, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Trump's comments are the latest example of his anti-immigrant rhetoric.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Carlson’s show was notorious for its anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 3 May 2023
  • Many in his nationalist, anti-immigrant base would cheer him on, even if the end result is stronger cartels and less safety here at home.
    Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
  • In this altered climate, an anti-immigrant backlash erupted in the suburbs.
    Becky Nicolaides / Made By History, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
  • That message seems to be getting lost in the current wave of anti-immigrant sentiment sweeping the nation, if not the world.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
  • His latest criticisms were made after he was asked if his rhetoric could inflame anti-immigrant sentiment in the city.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 2 May 2023
  • Migration over the past decade has stirred right-wing, anti-immigrant sentiment in some parts of Europe.
    ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The United States is now living through the second term of an anti-immigrant, far-right leader.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
  • Far-right and anti-immigrant groups targeted Chobani for employing refugees.
    Emily Barnes, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In his remarks at the event, Alvarez said that there is a resurgence of anti-immigrant assaults being seen in the country.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Democrats say the White House is using the scandal as an excuse to further its anti-immigrant crusade.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Hamilton pushed for the anti-immigrant measures and, after they were passed, complained that not enough deportations were taking place.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Kirk was a provocateur who at times made statements that some called racist, misogynistic, anti-immigrant and transphobic.
    Jonathan J. Cooper, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Kirk was a provocateur who at times made statements that some called racist, misogynistic, anti-immigrant and transphobic.
    Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Some consequences of the fear of deportation and anti-immigrant hostility are easy to see, like when children miss school.
    Kristina Fullerton Rico, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Requirements like these increase harmful anti-immigrant rhetoric.
    Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Some experts fear the rise of anti-immigrant rhetoric and deportations could further exacerbate the home health care shortage.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Kirk made comments over the years that some Democrats and others said were anti-immigrant, racist, misogynistic or offensive in other ways.
    Darlene Superville, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, the United States has also gone through periodic spasms of intense anti-immigrant feeling.
    Viet Thanh Nguyễn, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The trio, all of whom voted to pass the anti-immigrant bill, clumsily attempted to appeal to the thousands of people their party has alienated.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 5 June 2023
  • The fight, which now pitted Big Tech against the old left and the increasingly loud anti-immigrant right, moved to the White House.
    Gabrielle Clark, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Trump has built his political career and won the White House twice on campaigns of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy promises.
    Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026

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