Sentences with phrase «for thousands of immigrants»

This lighthouse has been in use since 1848 and was a signal for thousands of immigrants at sea that land was near after many months at sea.

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In a tweet Friday morning, Trump said he was «considering a VETO» because the proposal did not extend protections for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants or fully fund his proposed border wall.

He said today that Apple will do «everything we can» to encourage Congress to make the bipartisan Dream Act — legislation that would offer a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children if they graduated from high school or obtained a GED — permanent.

It seems, however, that Canada is missing the opportunity of harnessing the real skills of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, while waiting for our graduates to get up to speed.

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.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

The plan also broadens the requirements necessary for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the country as children, essentially granting legal status to hundreds of thousands more.

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?

Sobbing for the thousands of hate crimes committed against immigrants, women, Muslims, and people of color since Trump was elected; for the inevitable incursions into women's rights; for the mass deportation of Latino immigrants; for the likely return of a «law & order» police state that penalizes men simply for having black or brown skin; and, for the fact that young girls may be indoctrinated to think that their worth is determined solely by their looks.

For over 6000 years, it's been the meeting place for everyone from the earliest First Nations people, through to the fur traders, hunters, settlers, and thousands of immigrants who've made their way to where the Red River and Assiniboine River meFor over 6000 years, it's been the meeting place for everyone from the earliest First Nations people, through to the fur traders, hunters, settlers, and thousands of immigrants who've made their way to where the Red River and Assiniboine River mefor everyone from the earliest First Nations people, through to the fur traders, hunters, settlers, and thousands of immigrants who've made their way to where the Red River and Assiniboine River meet.

2001 — 2002 FRAC and anti-hunger and immigrant allies obtain further restoration of benefits for hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants, significantly improved access to benefits for working families, and other important improvements in the Food Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2002.

The committee began its work in 2016 as an advisory group to facilitate better communications between our immigrant communities and Erie County government, and has helped our community to lead the way for the resettlement of thousands of refugees to WNY.

Those records are believed to hold the personal information of thousands of unauthorized immigrants, for whom the program was designed, and the Council added the deletion proviso to the legislation as an explicit precaution should a deportation - happy candidate win the White House and seek to requisition the databanks.

«These community groups, which represent tens of thousands of working families, have been at the forefront of the Fight for $ 15, worker and immigrant rights, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, climate justice and more.

At 5 a.m., Make the Road New York, immigrant youth and families from New York and Long Island depart for Washington, DC, to joint thousands from across the country in calling for the passage of» «a clean Dream Act.»

Trump said he is open to a path to citizenship after 10 to 12 years for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, days after rejecting a bipartisan plan with that as its centerpiece.

Hector Figueroa, president of 32BJ SEIU — which represents thousands of immigrant workers — said that Schneiderman is proving that New York «welcomes DREAMers,» and also praised Cuomo for his role in the effort.

Republicans resolved not to submit to the minority party's demands to negotiate, while Democrats largely unified to use the shutdown deadline to force concessions on numerous issues — including protections for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants.

Minister for Immigration Mark Harper says he will consider more rigorous checks at borders after a report warned that thousands of illegal immigrants attempting to get into the UK through France have not been fingerprinted for four years.

The Trump administration is planning an increase in federal immigration jails across the country for the thousands of additional undocumented immigrants its agents are arresting.

A second bill sponsored by Crespo reduces the maximum sentence for misdemeanor offenses by one day from one year to 364 days, an apparent technicality that could potentially spare thousands of immigrants from deportation under federal law over certain lesser offenses.

When the BBC's Nick Robinson asked the Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry on the Marr Show «Are you saying that you don't want to see checks when people arrive in hospital for treatment that might cost tens of thousands of pounds — you don't want to see whether they're in fact illegal immigrants?»

Gordon Brown promised yesterday to launch a drive to train thousands of unemployed workers for jobs currently being filled by immigrants flocking to Britain.

One of the issues that led to the shutdown was Democrats insistence that Republicans include a path to legal status for hundreds of thousands of immigrant youth brought to the country as children in the spending bill.

NEW YORK CITY, NY — Top New York City officials and advocates said Thursday that the Supreme Court had just made life harder for hundreds of thousands of the city's immigrants.

But in the House, some Democrats are unhappy that the pact does not include protections for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, and some conservative Republicans oppose the additional spending.

NIH is funding researchers to look at risk behavior in many communities: Hispanic immigrant men who live thousands of miles from their wives, teens who cruise the Internet for pornography, Thai and Vietnamese women who work in San Francisco brothels.

Local school officials in the handful of states where most of the immigrants have settled are trying to set up adult - education classes for thousands more than they coped with last year, and have waiting lists of thousands more.

Chartering empowers thousands of African American families to create a vibrant new public - school sector in Harlem; it liberates a group of Minnesota teachers to start and run their own schools; and it provides a Teach for America alum the freedom to start a network of college - prep charters serving Mexican immigrants in Texas.

If immigrants are targeted, children whose parents are immigrants or who are immigrants themselves will live in fear of deportation.36 If Medicaid is cut, not only will it increase the number of uninsured children without access to needed medical care, but it will also put the jobs of thousands of school nurses, psychologists, and physical therapists at risk.37 This would hurt health outcomes for many children, especially those with disabilities.

CCSA will continue to advocate for the tens of thousands of immigrant families in our charter school community.

At the time, marginalized American farmers «westering» for cheap land in the Northwest, religious zealots, and just dreamers in search of adventure were flooding across the Kansas frontier, and in peak years as many as fifty thousand covered wagon immigrants spent the summer crossing the Oregon Trail and its two main tributaries, the California and Mormon trails.

We have represented over one hundred corporations, and have successfully processed thousands of immigrant and non-immigrant petitions for their employees.