Sentence examples for first-generation immigrant from inspiring English sources

"I'm a first-generation immigrant, and I want to make it".

I am a first-generation immigrant from India resident in New York City.

But she didn't know that her grandfather Najeeb, a first-generation immigrant, was buried in Brooklyn.

Doctors, not poets, are what first-generation immigrant families want, she said.

We faced numerous challenges, as all first-generation immigrant families do.

The first child of three, he was born in 1906, in Philadelphia, to ill-matched first-generation immigrant parents.

Isidore was a first generation immigrant who, aged eight, travelled alone from Hamburg to New York to find his parents who had emigrated five years earlier.

One friend to whom I mentioned the idea of joining the police force ruled out my chances of being accepted because I am a first generation immigrant.

Max is a first generation immigrant and his partner is an immigrant.

The latter work is a treatise on memory, which is based on the memories of first generation immigrant women.

She is a first generation immigrant, like Scalia.