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migrant
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Spare Parts, by Joshua Davis
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- In 2000, a rancher named Roger Barnett declared open season on migrants.†
p. 34.1 *migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- In 2003, eighty miles south of Phoenix, twelve migrants were sleeping beside a cattle pond.†
p. 34.3
- The men were carrying an automatic rifle and a pistol and opened fire, killing two of the migrants.†
p. 34.4
- Migrants who were seemingly coming to the United States to clean toilets and hammer nails were actually, from his perspective, hatching an insidious plot to recapture land Mexico lost during the 1846-48 Mexican-American War.†
p. 34.8
- A key element in this purported plot were migrant children.†
p. 35.1migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- It had an enclosed cell on the back for captured migrants, but the fat coyote was too exhausted to do anything other than kneel down on one knee.†
p. 46.4migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- For decades, migrant laborers had installed PVC pipes throughout American farmlands.†
p. 110.6migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- Starting in 2006, the posses were made up of more than three hundred civilians who were encouraged to track down illegal migrants.†
p. 184.3migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- Both opponents and supporters of the posses saw them as a way of scaring migrants out of the country.†
p. 184.5
- The intent was to buttress the Border Patrol's efforts to capture immigrants and prevent migrants from crossing.†
p. 184.6
- Voters naturally fell back on their assumptions about what low-income Mexican migrants were like.†
p. 187.8
- Stories of migrants stealing or fighting made the news, but when Carl Hayden won the national underwater-robotics championship, no prominent news outlet covered the story initially.†
p. 187.8
- Nationwide, attitudes toward migrants have also proven increasingly divisive.†
p. 220.5
- Some signs suggest that the vehemence of the anti-immigrant movement has driven migrants away.†
p. 221.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(migrant) a person (or animal) that moves from one place to another -- sometimes seasonally -- sometimes for work
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)