Sentences with phrase «a city of immigrants»

On the so - called «travel ban», Massey began with a declaration that «we're a city of immigrants» and defended the travel ban only so far as it may address realistic security concerns around controlling entry to the U.S..

No one is putting a rift between our brothers and sisters who come from other nations and happen to be immigrants in the greatest city of immigrants.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement on Thursday that he supported the legislation, which he called «thoughtful and progressive,» adding that it affirmed New York's status as «a city of immigrants, where dignity and an individual's right to due process will be protected.»

Massey said, «Where I come out on this is that we're a city of immigrants and I'm proud of that, and I think whatever the policy is, we should maintain the rights and dignity of everyone who is here, and I mean everyone.»

Immigration will be a tough slog, but as a city of immigrants, we'll keep the fire.

As part of ongoing events in conjunction with the A City of Immigrants celebration in Albany, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and the Albany Times Union partnered for a live panel at The Linda, WAMC's Performing Arts Studio, on Thursday.

«The whole experience of Syracuse has been that we are a city of immigrants, and our better angels have persevered, and we are a better society because of it.»

In the past several years, the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) has supported and funded digital games, including Mission US: City of Immigrants, a game about the immigrant experience.

«New York is a city of immigrants,» says Colen.

Not exact matches

A new exhibit at New York's Tenement Museum explores a century of the city's immigrant small - business owners, while the city government champions its growing tech startup community.

The city's urban plan was the brainchild of French immigrant and architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who envisioned an egalitarian design for the District — a vision that was a physical manifestation of the American dream.

Brendan Ross, manager of New York City's Peaches Hot House, estimated that the number of immigrants on his staff is closer to 40 %, but noted that «back - of - house [kitchen staff] numbers are much higher.»

On Saturday night, Uber's New York City Twitter account announced that it was turning off surge pricing for trips at JFK airport in light of the protests against Donald Trump's executive order that bans immigrants from seven Muslim - majority countries.

With a fortune of about $ 34 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Li has been a fixture as the city's richest man for an entire generation of Hong Kongers and spearheaded an era defined by a handful of swashbuckling Chinese immigrants who built large empires across Asia.

«Like many of you, I'm concerned about the impact of the recent executive orders signed by President Trump,» Zuckerberg said, referencing the orders Trump signed earlier this week to build a wall along the U.S. - Mexican border and prioritize the deportation of undocumented immigrants from so - called sanctuary cities in the U.S.

Taking a page from laws creating sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants, a group of lawmakers have submitted a bill that bans California law enforcement from working with federal authorities if they attempt to take action against marijuana grow facilities or dispensaries that operate legally under state law.

As the work of my Brookings colleague William Frey shows, immigrants are migrants within the U. S., too, moving on from traditional immigrant cities — New York and Los Angeles — to other towns and cities in search of a better future.

Immigrants who avoid ICE face the possibility of exploitation by employers: A 2008 survey from the National Employment Law Project found that 51 % of all undocumented workers in New York City were underpaid by more than $ 1 per hour, and 47 % said they were required to work after sustaining an injury on the job.

Ruby Polanco, the Honduras - born founder of Ruby Makeup Academy, based in Temple City, California, came to America like hundreds of thousands of other immigrants — she was brought here as a child.

And now that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is cracking down on sanctuary cities, where immigrants can live without fear of local authorities turning them in to the federal government, these groups are vulnerable to the recent deportation raids.

The problem, the report concludes, is that people are leaving the city for other parts of Canada faster than it can bring in international immigrants.

The so - called MTV Problem has put pressure on the three big cities to integrate a large number of immigrants while denying most other areas of the country the benefits of an expanding pool of labour that immigration can bring.

And immigrants are drawn to areas were there are already large numbers of their own community, which is what makes Toronto and other big cities so attractive.

The result has been to give the children of certain city - dwelling types of recent immigrant an educational advantage over the children of native American and other stocks living in rural areas.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

Originally settled by Scottish and Irish immigrants, Carlisle was named after its sister city, Carlisle, England, and was also home to the famous Molly Pitcher of Revolutionary War lore.

Around this time, Cohen's personal life and business interests both became deeply enmeshed in a community of Ukrainian immigrants in New York City.

«There would be no Uber without immigrants,» said Jim Conigliaro Jr., founder of the Independent Drivers Guild, an organization that represents and advocates protections for nearly 50,000 Uber drivers serving New York City.

The arrival of 1.7 million Asian immigrants in the past 20 years has made the styles and cultures of Asia part of the environment of our major cities.

The surge of immigrants boosts housing demand and consumer spending in major cities such as Auckland, which attracted the majority of immigrants, followed by Canterbury, Otago and Wellington.2

New York stands out as the city that best represents this immigrant mentality, and offers the diversity — both of talent and industry — that creates seemingly infinite opportunities for innovation and progress.

This style of living emerged in the mid-nineteenth century and offered men who were dislocated from family — usually immigrants or young workmen looking for opportunities in a new city — a supportive environment with more than just a room and bed.

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, waves of Catholic immigrants came to America from Ireland and Germany and settled in big - city metropolises, such as New York, to the great alarm of native - born Protestants.

In most American cities, the Buddhist community is not large, although it has grown with the influx of immigrants from Southeast Asia.

Usually they were located in what was once a «better part» of New York or some other large city, which had been taken over by recent immigrants.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

If the Puritans lashed Quakers and hung «witches,» the Southern gentlemen exploited, lashed, and hung recalcitrant negroes — as in a more subtle way the burgeoning commercial - industrial upper classes of the North exploited and abused the newly emergent industrial working classes of immigrants and poor whites, especially in the growing cities of the Northeast.

Dana Gioia likens a renewal of Catholic literature to the renovation of our lost immigrant neighborhoods: «It is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogenous, characterless suburbs of the imagination and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts.»

Over half of New Yorkers are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and the city hosts many thriving immigrant churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic, but Bishop Rimbo's focus — at least in this profile — is on the white middle class, the traditional constituency for mainline churches.

A Springfield, Massachusetts church provided shelter to an immigrant mother and her two children, but now the city's mayor is looking to punish the United Church of Christ for allegedly...

I know nothing of Julia Young's domestic arrangements, but my experience of large U.S. cities is that the educated professional classes tend to live so far from the areas inhabited by recent immigrants that they might as well be in another continent.

New York City started out with pockets of immigrants.

Kepel's conclusion is that the real battleground for hearts and minds lies in the immigrant communities of European cities, where Muslims are being propagandized with «terrorist ideology and tactics.»

Or maybe simply ask how the huge tribes of the descendants of Hebrew immigrants supposedly built giant cities, lived in them for a thousand years, yet managed to leave not a single scrap of archaeological evidence behind?

At that time waves of new immigrants were arriving in the cities of North America, and etiquette books emerged which taught these newcomers, who would become middle class citizens, how to avoid misbehaving in public.

Would we shock folks by eating at the home of someone «beneath» us or by becoming friends with undocumented immigrants in our city?

The son of German immigrants, Henry was born in New York City in 1913.

1 Paroikia was originally the community of strangers or immigrant sojourners in any city, a term which was appropriated by Christians in view of their primary citizenship in heaven.