How to Use anti-immigrant in a Sentence
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What unsettles me just as deeply is the anti-immigrant mood on the ground.
—Valeng Cha, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
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This is not about being anti-immigrant.
—Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
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At the same time, the party has been criticized for its staunch anti-immigrant stance.
—Mitchell McCluskey, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025
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The city recently found anti-immigrant and racist signs installed along a busy street.
—Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2024
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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
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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
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Coulter, known for her racist and anti-immigrant stances, attacked India, as well.
—Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2023
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The world has been engulfed by an anti-global, anti-immigrant backlash.
—TIME, 18 Mar. 2024
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Trump's comments are the latest example of his anti-immigrant rhetoric.
—Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
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Carlson’s show was notorious for its anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 3 May 2023
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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
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In this altered climate, an anti-immigrant backlash erupted in the suburbs.
—Becky Nicolaides / Made By History, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
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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
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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
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Migration over the past decade has stirred right-wing, anti-immigrant sentiment in some parts of Europe.
—ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
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The United States is now living through the second term of an anti-immigrant, far-right leader.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
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Far-right and anti-immigrant groups targeted Chobani for employing refugees.
—Emily Barnes, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Kirk was a provocateur who at times made statements that some called racist, misogynistic, anti-immigrant and transphobic.
—Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2025
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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
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Requirements like these increase harmful anti-immigrant rhetoric.
—Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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