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Recent Examples of anti-immigrant
This disinformation fueled anti-immigrant sentiments, resulting in violent protests and attacks on minority communities, such as the assault on the Southport Mosque.
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Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
The president has promised mass deportations and his anti-immigrant rhetoric has occasionally targeted migrants in Aurora and Denver.
—Jessica Seaman, The Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2025
What matters is the resurgent white nationalism whose menace hangs over Aber’s story, the inevitable upshot (or so Aber suggests) of Germany’s refusal to reckon thoroughly with its fascist past, in which the roots of present-day anti-immigrant feeling and policy are buried.
—Anahid Nersessian, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2025
Rather than stand against attacks on sanctuary policies, Adams has repeatedly promoted anti-immigrant rhetoric, feeding into the fear mongering that criminalizes immigrants simply for existing in our city.
—Melissa Mark-Viverito, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
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Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
The president has promised mass deportations and his anti-immigrant rhetoric has occasionally targeted migrants in Aurora and Denver.
—Jessica Seaman, The Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2025
What matters is the resurgent white nationalism whose menace hangs over Aber’s story, the inevitable upshot (or so Aber suggests) of Germany’s refusal to reckon thoroughly with its fascist past, in which the roots of present-day anti-immigrant feeling and policy are buried.
—Anahid Nersessian, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2025
Rather than stand against attacks on sanctuary policies, Adams has repeatedly promoted anti-immigrant rhetoric, feeding into the fear mongering that criminalizes immigrants simply for existing in our city.
—Melissa Mark-Viverito, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Anti-immigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anti-immigrant. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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