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Recent Examples of evacueeThe same lawmakers who once expressed outrage over the Afghanistan withdrawal are now silent as those evacuees — and many others — are funneled into a militarized detention system.—Chris Purdy, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025 The district's school resource officer, Toni Olson, who is also a member of the Germantown Police Department, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that a Super 8 hotel near the Performing Arts Center offered rooms for evacuees who needed somewhere to stay overnight.—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025 Dekel was founded by many of those evacuees.—Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2025 The commissioner has long-been a proponent of providing insurance benefits to those affected by evacuation - in 2020, Lara sponsored Senate Bill 872, which required insurers to provide at least two weeks of benefits to evacuees among other measures.—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for evacuee
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refugee
Noun
But Republicans have argued that the Biden administration abused the immigration parole system, as well as granted asylum and refugee status to immigrants who should not have received it.
—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Oct. 2025
Their presence puts migrant and refugee families at greater risk and spreads fear throughout our communities.
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