Sentence examples for mixed status from inspiring English sources

"There is also lots of mixed status here.

Many immigrant families have mixed status; often a patient with no documents has a spouse or children who are legal.

And that mixed status — celebrities as well as survivors, equal parts victors and victims — will alter the usual trajectory of mental adjustment after trauma for many of them, experts said Tuesday.

In all, about 9.5 million people live in "mixed status" families that include American citizen children and unauthorized immigrants, Jeffrey S. Passel, senior demographer at the Pew center, said on Tuesday.

It is worth mentioning, however, that migrants experience a mixed status quite infrequently less than 4%% of person-years and most likely as a result of somewhat rare dysfunctions in the receiving states' immigration-control bureaucracies, or simperson-years andt of poor recall on the part of mostants.

But, like so many mixed status families, she faced a difficult decision.

Many immigrant families are mixed-status families.

Jeffrey Toobin, in his article about the Floreses, a mixed-status family, describes a "comprehensive breakdown in public policy" with regard to immigration reform ("American Limbo," July 27th).

In many mixed-status families, siblings clash: The older child, without papers, often has to work harder to succeed and resents the privileges the younger child enjoys as a citizen — especially if he seems not to be taking advantage of them, said Walter Barrientos, a founder of the Youth Leadership Council.

After giving up everything to come here, he — the only one with papers — wants to go back?" These four — who let a reporter and a photographer trail them only if they were not identified, for fear of being deported — are part of a growing group of what are often called mixed-status families.

In addition to meeting undocumented immigrants of all backgrounds ("Can you let people know many African immigrants don't have papers, too?" an elderly Nigerian woman whispered to me at a rally in Los Angeles), I've met dozens of spouses and children of undocumented people, anxious members of mixed-status families.