anti-immigrant

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Recent Examples of anti-immigrant Trump’s administration was right to send an emissary after ICE’s Hyundai raid to express regret and negotiate a new business visa process for South Koreans, despite criticism from the more anti-immigrant MAGA base. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025 In 2019, an anti-immigrant racist murdered 23 mostly Latino shoppers at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas. Gregory P. Magarian, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025 In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis has taken up the anti-immigrant campaign aggressively, deputizing law-enforcement officers to assist ICE in its roundups. Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025 At the height of California’s anti-immigrant movement in 1994, Border Patrol agents on bikes stopped me in Downtown San Diego and questioned me about my status. Pedro Rios, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for anti-immigrant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anti-immigrant
Adjective
  • They’ve been folded into xenophobic and antisemitic edits pining for an Aryan ethnostate.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Social media has also been flooded with racist and xenophobic comments, especially about Indians, amid fears that an influx of foreigners could erode national identity in China, where the population has fallen for the past three consecutive years.
    Peter Guo, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Speaking with Engel reminded me at times of MacIntyre, Vance, and others who tend to speak in nativist terms.
    Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Many of the racist, nativist vulgarities spoken out loud in Paul Thomas Anderson’s marvelous new film One Battle After Another evoke sentiments that, in our world, first fomented online.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The pro-American side emphasizes the triumphs, airbrushes out the tragedies, and veers close to patriotic mythology.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • This year, Zamzow put up a patriotic scene, featuring hundreds of skeletons, in celebration of the upcoming 250th year of the United States.
    Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Anti-immigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anti-immigrant. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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