foreign-born

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Harsimran Singh, who owns a trucking company in Manteca, Calif., has found it harder to find drivers since the crackdown on English skills as foreign-born truckers are becoming worried about traveling to certain states.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The boomer-care challenges are pretty significant. We’re not able to meet this need for healthcare services. We should be trying to recruit foreign-born workers to strengthen our healthcare workforce,” Murray said.

From MarketWatch

Around one-quarter of workers in the construction industry are foreign-born, census data show.

From The Wall Street Journal

Employers have long depended on foreign-born workers, legal and illegal, and there have been far fewer to hire.

From The Wall Street Journal

By the 1840s, anti-Catholic nativists insisted that the foreign-born should likewise be excluded, or at least compelled to wait longer than the customary five years of residency before earning voting rights.

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