Sentences with phrase «american immigrant population»

The rapid growth of the Latin American immigrant population for the last three decades has left school districts throughout the United States grappling with how best to teach students who don't speak English.

Whether this signals a new attempt to court the German - American immigrant population or simply acknowledges that demographic's love of this one film -LRB-?)

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In the country that has the world's largest immigrant population, American presidential administrations have tried tightening security along the border for around a century.

According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, more than four in ten white seniors say that a growing population of immigrants is a «change for the worse;» half of white boomers believe immigration is «a threat to traditional American customs and values.»

A report from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Center, for instance, looked at data from the Survey of Business Owners and the American Community Survey and determined that though immigrants make up 13 percent of the U.S. population in general, they make up 18 percent of small business owners, and that immigrant - owned businesses account for 14 percent of private sector employment.

Chang eventually emigrated to the United States on a student visa and became a minister, co-founding a ministry for Korean immigrants at Wiltshire United Method Church in Los Angeles, home to the nation's largest Korean - American population.

The members of the American commentariat most attuned to this plague of Euro - childlessness tend to discuss its impacts in terms of the rapidly growing Muslim population in Europe and the difficulties so many European states seem to have in assimilating immigrants from a different civilizational orbit.

The poor, immigrant communities that had reshaped the American population now helped reconfigure American letters.

Look at the anger in the Southwest, where Spanish - speaking immigrants, legal and illegal, threaten to overwhelm the Anglo population (who, as I recall, similarly overwhelmed the Native Americans.)

Many immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere also stem from predominantly Christian countries outside of Europe, such as the Philippines, ancestral home to the second - largest Asian American population, and Ghana, one of sub-Saharan Africa's several rapidly Christianizing nations; Many also come from Christian sectors of such religiously mixed countries as Korea, Vietnam, India and Lebanon.

The Dakota Territory had absorbed a large wave of immigrant homesteaders, a population vulnerable to economic exploitation and political domination by the native born Americans who also flooded into the territory.

Thankfully we still have a large immigrant population who still chase the American dream and work their butts off to become the doctors, inventors, and scientists we will need to continue to make this country (and, by extension, our world) a better place.

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.

Melinda's growth is being propelled in large part by four key factors: the increasing popularity of spicy foods; America's rapidly expanding population of Central, South American and Caribbean immigrants; the widely recognized health benefits of chile peppers; and the growing purchasing power of Millennials who are more apt to experiment with new spices and flavor profiles.

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.

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.

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.

«With one - quarter of older Mexican - American immigrants and 30 percent of Mexican - Americans born in the United States reporting substantial physical limitations, there is a clear need for providing all Mexican - American older adults with appropriate health care, particularly in light of the rapid growth of this population» says co-author Amani Nuru - Jeter, Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

Some people blame the state of the American school on a rising immigrant population or the black - white education gap.

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.»

At the same time, new populations exist in cities, in urban school systems — primarily African American and Latino students, and large numbers of immigrants.

Our city is a diverse one, with a large population of African and Burmese immigrants, in addition to Caucasian, African - American and Hispanic populations.

His report compiles a number of other studies, including data on home - buying trends, population density, the cancelled immigrant investor program, and American research on the same issue.

For those looking for local data, a research study performed by AS / COA and Partnership for a New American Economy, provides an interactive map showing «the net change in a county's immigrant population from 2000 to 2010 and the corresponding effect on median home values.»

The growth in the rural population during the 1980s stemmed primarily from the influx of Central American immigrants who moved to Belize's countryside.

I also grew up in a poor valley region in California where we have a lot agriculture and huge Hmong immigrant population so I went to school with a lot of Hmong people (little known by Americans - as there are mostly Chinese, Thai, Korean people in the bigger cities) and got to go to a few food / culture festivals and see their beautiful embroidery -

But now, for the first time in over a century, Chinatown's core population may be shifting away from recent immigrants, according to a report from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund published in 2013.

This growing population of Latinos is diverse; Mexican Americans, new Mexican immigrants, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and Cubans.

With its vast population of immigrants, undocumented workers, and people of Mexican and Latin American descent, Southern California is particularly sensitive to issues of xenophobia and border violence.

Because the American Community Survey pulls from a sample of 3 million households yearly and averaged over 5 years to attain estimates for each Census tract, Walker emphasizes that the map only represents estimates of immigrant population in the U.S. and is, therefore, subject to a margin of error.

Asian - Americans and immigrants from Asia are both growing segments of the population of home buyers in this country.

Growing numbers of both immigrants and citizens of Latin American, Asian American, and African American descent are creating an increasingly diverse population in the United States.

The map below, the result of research by AS / COA and Partnership for a New American Economy, shows the net change in a county's immigrant population from 2000 — 2010 and the corresponding effect on median home value.