How to Use noncitizen in a Sentence

noncitizen

noun
  • In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that the clock didn’t stop until the noncitizen was notified of the time and place of the hearing.
    Jess Bravin, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • What if a state prohibits the sale of fruit packed by noncitizens, Kavanaugh asked.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
  • So far no one on the lists has been confirmed as a noncitizen voter.
    Eric Tucker, The Seattle Times, 6 Feb. 2019
  • Sunak proposed doubling the salary threshold that a person must meet to bring a noncitizen spouse to the U.K.
    Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The idea here is to find noncitizens who registered to vote.
    Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Feb. 2024
  • But even when a close relative sponsors a noncitizen, the wait can take 15 to 20 years.
    Rick Montgomery, kansascity, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Appeals courts, and possibly the state Supreme Court, will have the last word on noncitizen voting.
    Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Adams said his concerns were over one part of the legislation, which required the legal noncitizen to have lived in the city for at least 30 days.
    Houston Keene, Fox News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Paying a citizen to drive them in makes more sense in that regard than having a noncitizen lug them across the Rio Grande.
    Philip Bump, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • All of them said that Neild’s description of the law and the safeguards in place against noncitizen voting were accurate.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The ID card will be available to citizens and noncitizens alike.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • As noncitizens, they should never have been considered in the first place.
    Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • State law already states that noncitizens are not allowed to vote in elections.
    Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2024
  • But the measure, paired with what Democrats see as a poison pill on noncitizen voting, faces headwinds in the lower chamber.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Every vote cast in an election by a noncitizen dilutes the vote of a citizen.
    Jacob Posik, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Frey says 14% of the U.S. population lives in households with one or more noncitizens.
    Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • But Kobach can certainly use the database to claim that any number of noncitizens are voting.
    Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 6 July 2017
  • The big takeaway: Debate over the specter of noncitizen voting is likely to continue, and Arizona can expect to be at the forefront of it.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The Census Bureau’s own research found that the question could depress self-response rates among noncitizens by up to 6%.
    Obed Manuel, Dallas News, 27 June 2019
  • The state has the highest number of births to noncitizens outside of California, and many of those women are low-income.
    Nina Martin, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Earlier this week the Supreme Court voted to strike down the key provision of a statute that allows the expulsion of certain noncitizens.
    Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2018
  • In setting out his reasons why the government needs to know how many noncitizens live where, Trump fired the first shot in what could be a huge political fight in some states two years from now.
    David Lauter, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • During the study period, some 6,000 noncitizen names were found in one county.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Has there been a push for noncitizen voting in Wisconsin?
    Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Emanuel’s CityKey ID cards will be issued to citizens and noncitizens alike and are expected sometime in spring.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Oakland voters say noncitizen parents or guardians of school-age children should be allowed to vote in school board elections.
    Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The groups that would mostly be scared off by this are segments of the noncitizen Hispanic, Asian, and Muslim populations.
    William H Frey, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The hotel plan, along with a ban on all noncitizen foreign visitors, was an attempt to curb a fresh spike in coronavirus cases.
    sun-sentinel.com, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Kentucky Amendment 1 would ban noncitizen voting in the state.
    Jordan Kellogg, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Additionally, people who show up to vote will be greeted with signs saying noncitizens aren’t allowed to vote.
    Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024

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