Sentences with phrase «american immigrant children»

Foster Care Placement Settings and Permanency Planning (PDF - 158 KB) The Urban Institute (2007) Focuses on placement settings and case goals for Latin American immigrant children and children of Latin American immigrants compared with Hispanic and non-Hispanic children of U.S. - born parents in the custody of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

The work kids do: Mexican and Central American immigrant children's contributions to households and schools in California.

In Oracle, Ariz., on Tuesday, protesters gather near the entrance to a juvenile facility in an effort to stop the arrival of a busload of Central American immigrant children.

The Army base is reportedly being considered to house hundreds of Central American immigrant children under a government program as soon as August

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner at a community meeting about housing Central American immigrant children entering the United States.

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In addition, according to a report by The Partnership for a New American Economy, more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants (or their children).

In fact, seven of the 10 most valuable brands in the world come from American companies founded by immigrants or their children, including Apple, Google, AT&T, GE, IBM and McDonald's.

According to a study by the New American Economy, immigrants or their children founded more than 40 percent of the companies on the Fortune 500 list in 2010.

Forty - three percent of founders of the 2017 Fortune 500 are immigrants or the children of immigrants, according to the Center for American Entrepreneurship (CAE), a nonpartisan research and advocacy organization based in Great Falls, Virginia.

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.

In The Asian American Achievement Paradox, sociologists Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou offer a compelling account of the academic achievement of the children of Asian immigrants.

• Mr. Trump tweeted on Sunday that there would be no deal to protects thousands of young immigrants brought to the country as children and threatened to walk away from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

«They were workers in the Twin Towers - Americans by birth and Americans by choice, immigrants who crossed the oceans to give their children a better life,» he continued.

Americans especially the U.S. varieties are such a well rounded mixed breed of immigrants whose children were born there or here since I am a born U.S. citizen.

Immigrants and their children will eventually become... Americans.

Even now we have not achieved full equality between the white European immigrants, the native Americans, the children of black slaves from Africa and the newer immigrants from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

So I hope that as he flies home on September 27, the Holy Father will understand that American Catholics share every ounce of his passion for Christian service and human dignity — beginning with the unborn child, but not ending there; including the poor and the immigrant, but reaching from conception to natural death... and confirming that the «joy of the Gospel» comes from a Gospel of Life.

We understood our schools to be taking children of immigrants from many cultures and preparing them for participation in American democracy.

«We minister to street children in Nairobi and in Kiev, Ukraine; the homeless in Miami, Florida; Iranian immigrants in Southern California and Arab - Americans in Dearborn, Michigan,» Gary Baldridge said in an interview.

The media has been reporting extensively on what the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project has dubbed the «Trump Effect»: the fear and anxiety which the President - elect's campaign rhetoric - and his policy pronouncements, especially regarding immigrants and Muslims - appears to be engendering among Latino, Hispanic, African - American, and Muslim children, immigrant children, and children of immigrants, and the bullying, intimidation, slurs, and threats which appear to be increasingly directed at them.

Most will help immigrant children adjust to American society and culture.

While bullying has a long and sordid history in American classrooms, a November 7, 2016 article in The Nation asserts that the current surge is notable in two respects, both for the similarity of its targets - Muslim students, immigrants and children of immigrants, children of color, girls, and Jews - and the language used against them, leading some educators to suggest a link to Donald Trump and the «degraded course of this election season.»

We join the American Academy of Pediatrics in firmly opposing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security proposal reported in the media that would separate immigrant mothers from their children.

Spotlights on stage were given to groups Trump has demonized: people with disabilities, undocumented immigrants, mothers of children lost to gun violence, and a «Gold Star» Muslim - American family that publicly challenged Trump to a contest of who better represents American values.

Khojasteh, who was born in Iran, and moved to the U.S. with his parents after the Islamic Revolution and during the early years of the Iran - Iraq War, says he and his wife, Anjella, also a child of immigrants from Iran, «are blessed to be products of that long - talked - about «American Dream» — raised by parents with nothing more than hard work, determination and a dream to provide their children as much possibility as possible.»

We can increase ESL classes throughout the state, hire interpertors so that immigrant parents can easily communicate with their American citizen children's teachers, increase funding for immigration advocacy and citizenship application programs.

Andrew Cuomo doesn't care that illegal immigrants that are here in this country kill innocent Americans everyday, driving intoxicated, street gangs, cheap labor off the books, fathering american children, taxpayers are flipping the bill here supporting them with housing, food stamps, medicaid, healthcare plus they're out there working off the books for cheap labor and they don't pay taxes.

How is the problem of Latin American immigration and the recent wave of immigrant children seen by two spokespersons for the region?

It's also seen as a litmus test for President Donald Trump, who is lauded by many of the district's Cuban - American voters for chilling his predecessor's accord with Cuba but is denounced by other Hispanics for his hard - line stance on immigration, especially policies involving undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, known as «Dreamers.»

The labor union 32BJ SEIU on Monday criticized President Donald Trump's list of proposals in exchange for extending legal protections for children who arrived as undocumented immigrants in the United States, calling them a «betrayal of core American values.»

She also said that more than 40 percent of CUNY undergraduates are foreign - born and that 44 percent of them are children of immigrants, saying that CUNY is an «invaluable dream» and resource for them to «achieve the American dream that all of us yearn for.»

Senators and witnesses both invoked Google, Yahoo, and eBay as examples of immigrants» reputedly special propensity to found great corporations; as often happens, the discussion failed to note that these companies» foreign - born founders and co-founders arrived in this country as small children and were educated in American schools.

«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»

In 2007, 59 percent of parents of immigrant children hailed from Mexico and other Latin American countries.

African American children in immigrant and non-immigrant families had moderate rates of preventive dental utilization and were comparable to each other (e.g. 60 % and 59 %, respectively, in 2010).

A reflection of his own past and experiences, many of Mr. Mengestu's characters are immigrants or the children of immigrants, often from Africa, as he is; and so an underlying theme is what it means to be American.

«To all the dreamers out there, we stand with you,» said screenplay nominee and Pakistani American Kumail Nanjiani («The Big Sick»), a not - so - veiled gesture of solidarity to the children of undocumented immigrants.

Unlike the experience of past immigrants, for today's millions of Hispanic children the public schools no longer serve as the mechanism for their assimilation as Americans.

And the public schools were unabashed about their role in turning the children of immigrant families into Americans.

Ours are not Hispanic schools; they are classic American schools, which serve all its students, including Hispanic immigrant children.

In a class with immigrant and first - generation Asian American students, educators need to have a broad sense of the difficulties that these children might be facing.

The legislation that would provide undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children a path toward legal status through education or the military has had a long journey, says Angela Maria Kelley, executive director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

As the child of immigrants who counted public school access in their equation of the American Dream, I had minimal exposure to private schools growing up, and as a young parent I wanted my children to embrace diversity, thinking this would be found in public, not private, schools.

Though some will disagree about whether immigrants made the American Catholic Church or the American Catholic Church made the immigrants, the 1884 decisions by the Bishops stand as the foundational documents of a school system that so prospered that, by 1965, it was educating one of every eight children in the United States.

In a conservative Virginia community, traditional immigrant parents strive to shield their children from American values.

The foreign - language press supported America's role in World War II, even if the countries we fought against were the homelands of many immigrants; it steadily educated immigrant readers in American history, and through the parents also tried to educate the children.

Teachers and curricula in Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland in effect assumed the new immigrant children were capable of becoming good Americans and provided them with the kind of education that would make them so.

Helping immigrant children to view themselves as valuable — and valued — members of American society will become an escalating priority for educators and psychologists during the next century.

With a rising immigrant population, a well - documented achievement gap between white students and students of color, and broadening gaps in wealth of Americans, Deb Delisle, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education for the U.S. Department of Education, said that the odds that are against these children were are really related to a gap in «educational opportunity.»

Piney Branch Elementary serves an incredibly diverse group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, from the children of übereducated white and black middle - class families, to poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, to low - income African American kids.