Sentence examples for immigrant waves from inspiring English sources

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.

A fuller picture of the area began to form in the Hackney Museum, where artifacts included a recreated World War II air raid shelter with cot and gas mask, and exhibitions that charted Jewish and Asian immigrant waves.

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

She unleashed volleys of fearful warnings about her country's transformation — in her telling — by an immigrant wave.

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

The net increase of immigrants to the United States for the year that ended in July was an estimated 703,000, the smallest since 1991, Mr. Frey said, when the immigrant wave that dates to the 1970s began to pick up pace.

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.