How to Use port of entry in a Sentence

port of entry

noun phrase

• With the app, migrants can apply for a chance at asylum in the U.S. at a port of entry.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
• San Diego was the first U.S. port of entry for ships coming north after passing through the canal.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• There is a teasing view of Brownsville, Texas, an official port of entry.
  — Jay Root, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• Mayorkas touted record seizures of fentanyl at ports of entry and efforts to do more.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Migrants often wait for weeks or months in Mexico to present their case at a port of entry.
  — Karol Suarez, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
• Many of those seizures occurred at U.S. ports of entry from Mexico.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2023
• The duration of the visa-free period and specific rules vary by port of entry.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 2 Jan. 2024
• Carla and Jose, who traveled from Venezuela with their two children, were instructed to show up at the port of entry to speak with agents about their case.
  — Ally Schweitzer, NPR, 6 May 2024
• Asylum claims could still be presented at ports of entry.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• When combined with encounters at ports of entry, that number hit 9,100.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Texas installed the buoys to deter migrants from crossing into the U.S. through the river, in between official ports of entry.
  — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 22 Aug. 2023
• The notice describes the area as one where Border Patrol agents have seen high numbers of people crossing between ports of entry.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 5 Oct. 2023
• Under the proposal, migrants could still apply at ports of entry.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2024
• The suspects are believed to be connected to Hotel Libertad in Tijuana, about 2 miles from the port of entry.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023
• The smartphone app is the only way migrants are able to secure appointments to request an asylum screening at ports of entry.
  — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2023
• One requirement, the U.S. is processing more than 1,500 migrants each day at ports of entry — four times the pre-pandemic level.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2024
• Back then, migrants crossing between ports of entry ran from Border Patrol.
  — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2024
• Data on border drug seizures show that most of the drugs — especially fentanyl — are entering the U.S. through ports of entry, rather than other sections of the border.
  — Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
• Many migrants choose to travel through the desert to avoid a long wait at an official port of entry, even though the government says that will count against them in their eventual asylum hearings.
  — Ally Schweitzer, NPR, 6 May 2024
• At the same time, the access to appointments at ports of entry has created an orderly process through which migrants can request entry.
  — Andrew Selee, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2023
• In the past two fiscal years, U.S. Border Patrol encountered migrants between ports of entry along the southern border more than 2 million times each of those years.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2024
• The law also gives judges the power to order migrants to be transported to a port of entry and returned to Mexico regardless of their country of origin.
  — Quinn Owen, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2024
• Along with the economy, Lamb said, nothing angers his constituents more than the sense of disorder at ports of entry and in communities where migrants enter the country.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• Mexico could cut staff at ports of entry, throttling cross-border trade — despite the fact that each country is the other’s biggest trading partner.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• For example, the court questioned Nielson about what would happen if a migrant was delivered to a port of entry and then re-released by Border Patrol.
  — Quinn Owen, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2024
• Crossing between ports of entry is already a crime under federal law.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• There are also 29 ports of entry where foreign nationals can attempt to legally enter Texas, Abbott argues, more than any other state in the U.S.
  — Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• The monthlong port closure forced all American and Mexican residents to drive several hours to the next closest port of entry in Nogales.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2024
• That link was severed last week when United States border officials closed the port of entry in nearby Lukeville, Ariz., to cope with an influx of thousands of migrants who have been camping out in a rugged patch of desert along the border wall.
  — Miriam Jordan Rebecca Noble, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• Holford eventually stopped between the US and Canadian ports of entry but ignored troopers’ commands to get out of his truck, police said.
  — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024