It's hard to fathom this hatred of the foreign-born. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia's immigration Know-Nothings] Reference
Aversion to debt was even stronger among the foreign-born. From Wordnik.com. [Despite Strong Belief In Higher Education, Hispanics Often Don't Make It To College: AP/Univision Poll] Reference
Together they comprise over half the foreign-born population. From Wordnik.com. [The Cost of Living Among Wage-Earners Fall River, Massachusetts, October, 1919, Research Report Number 22, November, 1919] Reference
Pop. (1890) 4605; (1900) 5751, of whom 732 were foreign-born. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
By 1915, America was about one-fifth foreign-born, about what it is today. From Wordnik.com. [Stopping the Census Clock] Reference
Pop. (1900) 4364, of whom 391 were foreign-born; (1910, U.S. census) 4676. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Two-thirds were foreign-born, and nearly 40 percent lived in California. From Wordnik.com. [Book Recalls Troubles, Promise of Salvadoran Immigrant Life in US] Reference
And all but a handful of states have at least 1,000 foreign-born youngsters. From Wordnik.com. [Classrooms Of Babel] Reference
"They stayed in their cabins the whole time," grins one foreign-born manager. From Wordnik.com. [Joining The Party] Reference
The NFL has the fewest foreign-born players by far of America's four major sports. From Wordnik.com. [Meet the NFL's Most Interesting Man] Reference
Among Latinos, those who were foreign-born were even further behind, the survey found. From Wordnik.com. [Many Americans disagree with govt broadband expansion; adoption grows slightly and a look at closer look at California] Reference
There are maps showing the foreign-born population in 1860, the presidential election in. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
Of the 11 girls among the top 25 Putnam scorers in the past 16 years, eight were foreign-born. From Wordnik.com. [Math is Hard, Barbie Said] Reference
Recent polls suggest that two-thirds of the country is not ready for a foreign-born president. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: Hyphenated In The U.S.A.] Reference
They found foreign-born Latinos much more enthusiastic about participating in the U.S. Census. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Immigrants More Trusting Of U.S. Government] Reference
All told, illegal immigrants in 2009 represented 28% of the foreign-born population in the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Illegal Immigration to U.S. Slows Sharply] Reference
His audience comprised two thousand foreign-born men who had just been admitted to citizenship. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
In the U.S., foreign-born workers make up 15 percent of the workforce; in Japan, it's 1 percent. From Wordnik.com. [Why Japan Isn’t Rising] Reference
Schwarzenegger cannot be president; the Constitution bars the foreign-born from the White House. From Wordnik.com. [Only in California] Reference
A year later, the sumo authorities made a Hawaiian, Akebono, the first foreign-born grand champion. From Wordnik.com. [A Big Man In Marketing] Reference
In fact, not one of the suspects is foreign-born or had spent any time in the Afghan training camps. From Wordnik.com. [THE BEST WAYS TO BEAT TERROR] Reference
In Japan, just 1.7 percent of the population (or roughly 2.2 million people) is foreign or foreign-born. From Wordnik.com. [Strict immigration rules may threaten Japan's future] Reference
And let's not stop with the foreign-born: Ban all accents, Southern accents, for instance, or Yankee ones. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Education Loses The Accent Of America] Reference
We accept the term "naturalization" to describe the process of the foreign-born taking on a new citizenship. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Chen: The Other Side of the Anchor: Where Else Do American-Born Kids Belong?] Reference
For now, HP can rely on foreign-born scientists, but "what happens when those people stop wanting to come here?". From Wordnik.com. [Silicon Valley’s Fork in the Road] Reference
Inc. hire foreign-born students who would help develop innovative products and ultimately become U.S. residents. From Wordnik.com. [IT Firms Howling As Visa Fees Leap] Reference
They also face the enormous obstacles, educational and societal, that stand in the way of foreign-born newcomers. From Wordnik.com. [Immigrant Schools: The Wrong Lessons] Reference
Lastly, many Dutch people (including Crown Prince Willem-Alexander) have foreign-born husbands, wives or partners. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Will Google Falter?] Reference
As it does with all foreign-born individuals that land in its custody, it sent Martinez's name to ICE by teletype. From Wordnik.com. [An Ounce of Prevention] Reference
While 85% of native-born Latinos ages 16 and older go online, only about half (51%) of foreign-born Latinos do so. From Wordnik.com. [Julius H. Hollis: Congress steps up to the plate to weigh in on Net Neutrality] Reference
Later, the foreign-born resident, who had been let go for dereliction of duty, claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Slayton: The Immigration Debate] Reference
Meanwhile, the foreign-born labor force is more geographically dispersed than it used to be, though not extraordinarily so. From Wordnik.com. [Immigration graphs] Reference
Still, that has not stopped him from overtaking Arnold Schwarzenegger as Japan's most successful foreign-born pitchman ever. From Wordnik.com. [A Big Man In Marketing] Reference
By 2030, Ireland's population will climb more than 20 percent to more than 5 million, roughly a quarter of them foreign-born. From Wordnik.com. [Sunset on the Liffey?] Reference
"This is federal problem," said Surovell, who represents a district in which nearly one-third of the residents are foreign-born. From Wordnik.com. [McDonnell wants troopers deputized to check stopped drivers' immigration status] Reference
During the twentieth century, the nation recorded its highest percentage of foreign-born residents in 1910 - 14.7% of the population. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Nye: The Closing of America?] Reference
As of June 2009, foreign-born individuals represented 8% of the 1.4 million military personnel on active duty in the U.S. armed forces. From Wordnik.com. [A Route to Citizenship in Defense Bill] Reference
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