Sentences with phrase «american immigrant living»

I'm an American immigrant living in Europe and I'm well aware that the United States itself is a country built by immigrants, pretty much continuously.

Kavya and Rishi Reddy, successful Indian - American immigrants living in a charming Berkeley bungalow, have the sort of life that Checo and Soli are hoping for as they set out to cross the border from Mexico.

Not exact matches

The site features hundreds of young, American - educated undocumented immigrants explaining how citizenship would improve their lives.

Restaurant owners who spoke to Fortune stood in solidarity with their immigrant employees who participated in the nationwide «Day Without Immigrants» strike, which organizers hoped would highlight their importance to the American economy and daily life at a time when they feel under siege following the election of President Donald Trump.

The RAISE Act's lower quotas and emphasis on English and other skills would make it harder to fill those jobs with immigrants, and thus mean more Americans would be diverted from higher - paid, more productive tasks into cleaning - or else have to live and work in dirtier conditions.

According to a 2013 study by the social action group Center for American Progress, if the undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States were provided legal status, the 10 - year cumulative increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) would be $ 832 billion.

Lam and the Demaj brothers are as passionate about what immigrants have to offer America as they are about living in this country, and they think repealing DACA is a huge step backward, even though they all three immigrated here legally and are American citizens.

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.

He was often recognized as an outstanding local hero in the first stop for thousands of Cuban refugees, an area that is now home to thousands of Central American immigrants who also seek a better life in the United States.

The subtext is clear: Hispanics are assimilating to American life much like previous generations of newcomers and as successfully as the so - called «model» Asian immigrants.

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.

«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.

This man's argument was that those who made America a «nation of immigrants» came to become American — «they wanted to be Americans, not just to live in America.»

The difference, he said, between these and Muslim immigrants — specifically those subject to the proposed refugee ban — is that the Muslim immigrants don't want to assimilate into American culture, they just want to live here.

Our nation has assimilated into the mainstream of American life generations of immigrants» many fleeing poverty and oppression in their native lands.

Vice has published an interesting new short documentary about an American church hiding undocumented immigrants who live in fear of deportation since the election.

Yes, but the immigrants assimilated into the larger American society by adopting our founding principles - life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness - not by insisting society adapt to the cultures they came from.

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.

Although 63 percent of the 10 million Hispanic Catholics in the U.S. are native - born, neither they nor the immigrant populations from Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America have been fully integrated into American Catholic life.

Our nation has assimilated into the mainstream of American life generations of immigrants — many fleeing poverty and oppression in their native lands.

Why are you questioning Americans having American ideals, it is the Muslim Immigrants who refuse to assimilate prefering instead to keep there Muslim ways even while living here in an open free society.

In a petition to the Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia in 1787, the German - Jewish immigrant Jonas Phillips enunciated what to my mind should still be the proper approach of American Jews to the question of religion in American life.

«The Columbus Statue represents the many Italian - American immigrants who came to this country for a better life,» Gjonaj said.

Eva Hassett, Executive Director of the International Institute of Buffalo said, «For a century, the Institute has assisted refugees and immigrants who have arrived in Buffalo to seek a new life and a chance to achieve the «American Dream.»

There are 526,000 immigrants living on Long Island, making up 18 percent of the region's population and 20 percent of the economic output of Long Islanders, according to a study released today by the Fiscal Policy Institute, New Americans on Long Island: A Vital Fifth of the Economy.

«I'm here because I think it's really important for Asian Pacific Americans to show solidarity for immigrant communities to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation,» said law school graduate Michelle Lee, 25, who lives in Manhattan.

To help our new neighbors achieve their full promise, we created the New Americans Advisory Committee to more fully integrate our immigrant population into Erie County life; thereby strengthening the fabric of the communities where they reside.

Recent immigrants have not only increased our population, but have enriched our lives with new businesses and a sense that the promise of the American dream still rings true.

Mario's life was the quintessential American success story, the son of Italian immigrants who rose from modest beginnings in Queens to the governor's mansion in Albany.

Having in consideration that Latin American countries are corrupt but Democratic and the illegal immigrant will have to live in the shadows while he can have a normal life in his original country.

«I want other New Yorkers, especially immigrants, to have the same opportunities I had to live the American Dream.»

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Indian - Americans have the highest median income of all Asian immigrant groups, and more than 200,000 live in New York City alone, according to a study by the Pew Foundation.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said Brooklyn's massive immigrant population «stands as a shining example of how immigration and diversity have made us a safer and stronger place to live, work, and experience the American dream.

We further believe Americans are a generous people who understand that immigrants who work hard and play by the rules not only better their own lives but also enrich our nation.

«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.»

By comparison, I get the feeling that both later guests would like to retain their North American standard of living (albeit with a more pristine environment), something they seem to think entails the exclusion of immigrants.

In America, the Chinese community is represented by all walks of life educated and unschooled, Buddhist and Christian, immigrant and American - born, first generation to sixth.

American Dreamz tracks the lives of three characters particularly — the host, a Simon Cowell impersonation done half - heartedly by Hugh Grant; the star, Mandy Moore as a white - trash girl with dreams of fame and fortune; and the laughable, Muslim immigrant Omer, selected only to allow the manufacture of religious tension with a Jewish contestant.

It takes place in Camberra, Australia, where an Irish immigrant, Stewart (Byrne) and his emotionally fragile American wife, Claire (Laura Linney), live in a state of middle - aged angst.

He found it in pro players and brought it to the league, beginning a David vs. Goliath story over what to do next, with the All American sport pushing back against the immigrant doctor as lives literally hang in the balance.

«Lowlife» Synopsis: In search of a new start and the American dream, a Polish immigrant is manipulated into a life of prostitution by a charming but wicked man on the mean streets of Manhattan, until a dazzling magician tries to save her.

Recounting his upbringing by an abusive father and his anger over losing construction job opportunities to illegal immigrants, Foley seems to have taken up arms less out of necessity (à la Autodefensas) than out of a frustration with both the American government's lack of immigration control and with his own tough, on - the - margins life.

Set during the winter of 1981 — statistically one of the most crime - ridden of New York City's history — A MOST VIOLENT YEAR is a drama following the lives of an immigrant and his family as they attempt to capitalize on the American Dream, while the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

A Better Life (PG - 13 for profanity, violence and drug use) American Dream drama, set in East L.A., about an undocumented immigrant's (Demian Bichir) attempt to protect his teenage son (Jose Julian) from both street gangs and deportation back to Mexico.

Her journey, a microcosm of the American Dream as seen through the life of an immigrant, is continuously and consistently heartbreaking, full of misunderstandings both cultural and linguistic, that all you want to do is hug her and tell her everything is going to be okay, even if her journey is the most foolish of errands.

Highlights of the partnership include Kartemquin's first film, Home for Life, labor struggle film The Last Pullman Car, James's Grassroots Chicago, and seven - hour immigrant story The New Americans.

We have not yet fully accepted those with intellectual disabilities, nor have we fully accepted a young immigrant struggling to understand the English language and American culture, or a teenager who is of color and living in poverty.

Key to this model is understanding the role that public schools play, not only in educating our youth, but also in serving as the mediating institution to successfully transition immigrant families into the American way of life, into making American values, culture, norms, and language their own.

DIRECTIONS: «Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.»