How to Use undocumented in a Sentence

undocumented

adjective
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  • The company cannot reimburse you for undocumented travel expenses.
  • His dad, who came to the United States from Cuba undocumented, dropped out of school in third grade; his mother dropped out in 10th.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • At the height of the 2016 migrant influx into Europe, the show added episodes about the lives of undocumented immigrants in France.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Police raids took place across the country on Wednesday, the deadline for undocumented Afghans to leave.
    — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
  • No detail goes undocumented in a league even more lucrative than the SEC.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 22 Aug. 2023
  • If the suspect is an undocumented immigrant, the trail can go cold quickly.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • All my nagging thoughts were there: Don’t let that perfect view go undocumented.
    — Jackie Caradonio, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 June 2023
  • These findings may add to knowledge about an era that is largely undocumented, Mr. Hunter said.
    — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • An undocumented immigrant has been charged with the crime.
    — Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Gisele was born in Brazil and emigrated as a child to the US, living as an undocumented immigrant for over a decade.
    — Gisele Barreto Fetterman, ELLE, 30 Mar. 2023
  • With remote work, new risks emerged—voids in soft-skill learning and undocumented knowledge.
    — Cheri Beranek, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The goal for both us and the borrower is to get their undocumented status changed to a permanent residence.
    — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Sow believes this is part of the problem, noting that the fear of being undocumented immigrants can hold these women back.
    — Houreidja Tall, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 July 2023
  • According to the affidavit, the brothers were driving by a group of undocumented migrants who took cover in the brush.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The commissioner himself came to the country as an undocumented child, Adams said.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
  • This year, for the first time, the number of arrests of undocumented migrants along the U.S. southern border exceeded two million in a single year.
    — Frances Robles, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • According to the plea agreement, Jimenez-Bautista helped guide dozens of undocumented immigrants across the border on at least eight occasions from March to June 2022.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Carafem requires you to show a valid ID, which might be difficult for minors, undocumented, or trans people.
    — Lauren Rowello, Health, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Gutierrez-Li said this will open up the program to many undocumented immigrants who will now have the ability to gain legal status through their work.
    — Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2022
  • If there was no poverty, if there was no climate change, if there was no deep desire in the U.S. for cheap, controllable, undocumented labor, there would be no need for smuggling.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2024
  • Obama had told the group that his health plan wouldn’t cover undocumented immigrants.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2023
  • For some time, Arce kept her undocumented status a secret.
    — Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022
  • But Democrats play into their hands by accepting the terms of the debate as Republicans have framed them: that the problems of the border are the problems of undocumented immigrants.
    — Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The problem is that Catalina and her new guardians are undocumented residents.
    — Nicolás Medina Mora, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • These undocumented workers are unlikely to want to put themselves at risk by coming for testing, Lawler says.
    — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 3 May 2024
  • It was revealed at Thursday's arraignment that Castillo, who is from Guatemala, is undocumented and his visa has expired.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2023
  • As far back as the 1960s, some Latinos, including civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, took a hard stance against undocumented immigrants.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024
  • For years, calls to do more to control the flow of undocumented immigrants into the country have been an unrelenting GOP rallying cry.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • They’re largely driven by unfounded claims, spread for years by Donald Trump, that Democrats are registering undocumented immigrants to vote.
    — Brian Bennett, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This would mean that, even as America seeks to remove undocumented individuals from its borders, it could simultaneously be pressured to admit a new wave of asylum seekers from Europe.
    — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024

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