Sentence examples for immigrant wave from inspiring English sources

Still, at street level, the economic impact of the immigrant wave has largely been positive.

That's certainly the experience of Northern cities during the great immigrant wave of the early 1900s, as well as of the American South.

After the Soviet Union's collapse in 1990, another immigrant wave ensued; Aldegunda, who grew up in Kaunas (the second-largest city in Lithuania, after Vilnius), arrived in 1999 after spending her 20s in France, Germany and Sweden.

Over a few days, the government of David Cameron, who once described the immigrant wave as a "swarm," raised the British quota for Syrian refugees from several hundred to four thousand, and to twenty thousand by 2020.

That is because the immigrant wave is split, with many educated workers in the region's technology and financial-services industries, and many unskilled laborers in the landscaping, construction and restaurant industries.

Anti-Latino sentiment in Siler City, N.C., where poultry operations have attracted thousands of Mexican immigrants, grew to the point where David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, was invited last year to help stem the immigrant wave.

Luis, an older Ecuadorean immigrant, waves to her.

"Some of it is parents looking for better schools, just like in past immigrant waves.

The English and Dutch colonists resented the immigrant waves of Irish and Germans, who resented the later waves of Italians and Poles and Jews.

They have advantages that previous immigrant waves did not, starting with a national culture less accepting of discrimination than in the past.

As has happened with many immigrant waves in the past, Latin Americans came in droves in the latter half of the 20th century.