How to Use foreign-born in a Sentence
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And the growth of the foreign-born in the American South has been the fastest in the past 10 years.
— Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024 -
Roughly 14% of the country’s total population is foreign-born today, just shy of the record set more than a century ago.
— Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024 -
Nearly one-third of Latinos in the U.S. are foreign-born.
— Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023 -
Their work was convened at H-Space by Sandy Cheng, who’s foreign-born herself.
— Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023 -
South of Market saw growth in both the overall and foreign-born populations over the recent decade.
— Adriana Rezal, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023 -
The union’s members are nearly all Hispanic and foreign-born, according to the union.
— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024 -
Partly as a result of the ongoing border crisis, the number of foreign-born ...
— Daniel Foster, National Review, 13 Apr. 2023 -
Myers: The majority of our fans are located outside the U.S., and 25% of our players are foreign-born.
— Josh Glicksman, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2024 -
Just over 19% of the once rapidly declining industrial city is now foreign-born, the center said.
— Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 29 June 2024 -
The data also show that nearly a third of residents are foreign-born, a share that is almost double the statewide average.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023 -
And while 11 percent of Black Americans across the country identify as foreign-born, those figures jump to 40 percent in Greater Boston.
— Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023 -
Qualifying children must be born in the United States or foreign-born with a green card or pass the substantial presence test for tax purposes.
— Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2024 -
Six percent of its population is foreign-born, according to the U.S. Census.
— Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2023 -
One in 5 people in California is foreign-born, and there is a persistent lack of polling data about this population.
— Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023 -
Almost sixty-seven per cent of households speak a language other than English, and twenty-eight per cent of residents are foreign-born.
— Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023 -
Despite the stereotype of who farms for a living, Oliver pointed out that the majority of crop workers are foreign-born and many are undocumented.
— Aleysha Haniff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023 -
While the district, which is more than two-thirds Asian and almost 67% foreign-born, has long been a popular destination for Asian immigrants, the rise of certain ethnic groups have led to shifting demographics.
— Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 26 June 2024 -
But 37 percent of that population is foreign-born, the highest rate of any metropolitan area in the country, according to a recent study by the Boston Foundation.
— Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 20 July 2023 -
More than 37 percent of meat and poultry workers are foreign-born, according to estimates by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
— Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024 -
Few people in Flushing, the majority of whom are foreign-born, grew up together, and the solidarity of the neighborhood’s residents is fragile.
— Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024 -
Nearly 29 percent of the city’s population is foreign-born, which exceeds local, state and national averages, according to census data.
— Erin Cox, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023 -
Approximately 13% of the city’s total population is foreign-born.
— Madison Lambert, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2024 -
These patients are disproportionately Latino and foreign-born.
— Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024 -
Even though only 14 percent of the current U.S. population is foreign-born, immigrants create a disproportionate number of businesses.
— Kimberly Clausing, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019 -
California’s labor market relies considerably on immigrants OK, that probably isn’t too surprising in a state where more than a quarter of residents are foreign-born.
— Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024 -
One in five will be casting their first ballot in a presidential election, a sign that highlights how the Latino population in the country flipped from being primarily foreign-born to majority U.S.-born over the last two decades.
— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
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