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Border States
plural noun
- U.S. History. the Slave States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, which refused to secede from the Union in 1860–61.
- the U.S. states touching the Canadian border.
- certain countries of central and northern Europe that border on the former Soviet Union and belonged to the Russian Empire: Finland, Poland (prior to 1940), Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Example Sentences
It specifically instructs occupying the Roosevelt Reservation, a 60-foot-wide strip of land owned by the federal government that stretches through three of the four border states.
Roughly 1.5 million American homes in the northern border states of New York, Michigan and Minnesota will be impacted.
But the Democratic governors of three other southern border states - California, Arizona, and New Mexico - have said they will not aid mass deportations.
Look beyond Texas and other, sharply redder border states to the reddened California and New York City.
While unlawful border crossings are now down, they really did spike during the Biden administration; large numbers of immigrants reeling from economic collapse in Venezuela, violence in Central America, and instability worldwide came not just into border states but into cities and towns across the U.S., and even true-blue metropolises felt overwhelmed by a flood of newcomers with few in-country connections and fewer means.
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