MIGRANT in a Sentence

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The amount of money sent home by migrant workers to their families in Latin America has reached more than $62 billion.

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 Meanings and Examples of MIGRANT
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migrant
 a.  habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; wandering
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Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The departure of the migrant workers for the holiday season has also shown up how dependent the city dwellers now are on these country cousins of theirs.
2  The amount of money sent home by migrant workers to their families in Latin America has reached more than $62 billion.
3  Cesar Chavez fought attempts to exploit migrant farm workers in California.
4  These migrant birds return every spring.
5  Money from migrant workers now exceeds the combined total of all direct foreign investment and foreign aid to Latin America 62.3 billion dollars.
6  The area was an important resting place for many types of migrant birds.
7  The government revoked her husband's license to operate migrant labor crews.
8  Many asylum seekers appear to be economic migrants, convinced that the streets of Europe are paved with gold.
9  The government divides asylum-seekers into economic migrants and genuine refugees.
10  It is illogical to oppose the repatriation of economic migrants.
11  The human population swelled, at least temporarily, as migrants moved south.
12  How can a country like Spain sustain the millions of migrants who were losing their jobs in 2009 and provide them with the same welfare state Spaniards can access in times of economic crisis?
13  In general China does not consider them as refugees but economic migrants and has repatriated those caught on its territory under a bilateral treaty with North Korea.
14  Critics believe the measures will discriminate against migrants with low levels of literacy and for whom English is not their first language.
15  When the coastguard intervenes, the media arrive and the bureaucratic machine has to process them. Then the migrants' choice is to try to stay here or be repatriated.