How to Use anti-immigrant in a Sentence

anti-immigrant

adjective
  • What unsettles me just as deeply is the anti-immigrant mood on the ground.
    — Valeng Cha, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
  • This is not about being anti-immigrant.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
  • Last year, one of its stores in Hull, a port city on the northeast coast, was ransacked amid far-right, anti-immigrant protests.
    — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Many in his nationalist, anti-immigrant base would cheer him on, even if the end result is stronger cartels and less safety here at home.
    — Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Migration over the past decade has stirred right-wing, anti-immigrant sentiment in some parts of Europe.
    — ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The United States is now living through the second term of an anti-immigrant, far-right leader.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
  • Far-right and anti-immigrant groups targeted Chobani for employing refugees.
    — Emily Barnes, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In his remarks at the event, Alvarez said that there is a resurgence of anti-immigrant assaults being seen in the country.
    — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Democrats say the White House is using the scandal as an excuse to further its anti-immigrant crusade.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Hamilton pushed for the anti-immigrant measures and, after they were passed, complained that not enough deportations were taking place.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Kirk was a provocateur who at times made statements that some called racist, misogynistic, anti-immigrant and transphobic.
    — Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Kirk was a provocateur who at times made statements that some called racist, misogynistic, anti-immigrant and transphobic.
    — Jonathan J. Cooper, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Requirements like these increase harmful anti-immigrant rhetoric.
    — Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Some experts fear the rise of anti-immigrant rhetoric and deportations could further exacerbate the home health care shortage.
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Kirk made comments over the years that some Democrats and others said were anti-immigrant, racist, misogynistic or offensive in other ways.
    — Darlene Superville, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Trump has built his political career and won the White House twice on campaigns of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy promises.
    — Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Paul, however, is not the anti-immigrant hero Christian nationalists have waited for.
    — John Fugelsang september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Trump is the most anti-immigrant President of our lifetime—not just in his desire to build a wall but emotionally anti-immigrant.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The anti-immigrant and racist sentiments that dominated the show came naturally to Neff.
    — Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Mamdani will be the city’s first Muslim mayor and faced Islamophobic jabs and anti-immigrant rhetoric while on the campaign trail.
    — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Unisphere was a fitting antidote to anti-immigrant hysteria.
    — Rob Kenner, VIBE.com, 8 June 2026
  • With the broader rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric, such claims warrant systematic examination.
    — Sarah Mohiuddin, STAT, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Its anti-immigrant campaigns targeted Catholics and Jews with particular force.
    — David Mislin, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The incident comes two years after anti-immigrant protesters triggered a major riot in the center of Dublin after the stabbing of three young children.
    — Reuters, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But that hasn’t stopped MAGA influencers from using his booking to stoke anti-immigrant outrage.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The protests that have broken out since the attack have been pushing anti-immigrant rhetoric and have caused disturbances across Northern Ireland, according to the police.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 11 June 2026
  • By 1930, in the early days of the Great Depression, anti-immigrant sentiment was already high.
    — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • To be sure, anti-immigrant violence in the United States does not approach the scale of the atrocities Valentino usually studies.
    — M. Gessen, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
  • Nezza, people saw your performance of the national anthem as an act of resistance, in the face of increasing anti-immigrant actions by the federal government.
    — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
  • As well as anti-immigrant sentiment, migrant workers in Italy endure some of Europe’s harshest labor conditions.
    — Matteo Moschella, NBC news, 4 June 2026

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