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Recent Examples of anti-immigrant
Musk has recently made offensive jokes and gestures making light of the Holocaust, and has promoted Germany’s far-right, anti-immigrant party AfD, or Alternative fur Deutschland, ahead of the country’s elections in February.
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Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2025
Washington will see competition with China as an existential struggle that heightens anti-immigrant sentiment at home, potentially leading to hate crimes and greater violence against Asian Americans, as occurred during Trump’s first term.
—Michael Brenes, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2025
Coupled with anti-immigrant sentiments worsened by the 2023 earthquake and presidential election, life has remained difficult for many.
—Ana Martín Gil, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
In places like Freiburg, where a group of predominantly Syrian immigrants participated in a gang rape that became a major news story, the influx fuelled security fears and anti-immigrant sentiment.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2025
Washington will see competition with China as an existential struggle that heightens anti-immigrant sentiment at home, potentially leading to hate crimes and greater violence against Asian Americans, as occurred during Trump’s first term.
—Michael Brenes, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2025
Coupled with anti-immigrant sentiments worsened by the 2023 earthquake and presidential election, life has remained difficult for many.
—Ana Martín Gil, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
In places like Freiburg, where a group of predominantly Syrian immigrants participated in a gang rape that became a major news story, the influx fuelled security fears and anti-immigrant sentiment.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Anti-immigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anti-immigrant. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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