Sentences with phrase «about immigrants as»

At the moment the debate talks about immigrants as if they are a «faceless bunch of aliens» and people who question their existence are «racist».

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Trump has said Dreamers «have nothing to worry about,» but Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week said immigrants who arrived in the United States as children were «subject to being deported.»

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.

Budweiser's spot, telling the story of Anheuser - Busch's immigrant co-founder Adolphus Busch, and Pennsylvania - based building materials company 84 Lumber's ad were among the most talked about as well.

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 Department of Homeland Security is proposing to expand the files it collects on immigrants, as well as some citizens, by including more online data — most notably search results and social media information — about each individual.

The plan, reported by BuzzFeed, is notable partly because it permits the government to amass information not only about recent immigrants, but also on green card holders and naturalized Americans as well.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) boss Thomas Homan made «false» statements about a North California raid on immigrants, according to James Schwab, who resigned as an ICE spokesperson because he did «not want to perpetuate misleading facts.»

In the past, President Trump has taken things a bit too far, such as when he sued Univision after the network dropped its coverage of the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants following Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants.

DACA has protected about 800,000 younger immigrants who were brought to this country as children by their parents, many of them entering illegally and others staying without legal permission.

The pro-migration Senators» complaints about border agents, deportations, and detention beds come as blue - collar wages are beginning to rise after decades of minimal growth, and as Trump's deputies step up their efforts to deter migration by illegal immigrants and asylum - seekers.

Cook had previously withdrawn Apple's participation in the 2016 Republican convention that nominated Trump as a candidate because of his comments about race, immigrants and other minorities.

Among those were questions about his treatment of an ex-wife who once appeared in disguise on «The Oprah Winfrey Show» to discuss being physically assaulted and revelations about his employment of an undocumented immigrant as a housekeeper.

I want to be clear about what I mean by this, because many people believe this issue relates to current skilled labour shortages; some think it applies to our need to attract more professionals such as doctors, engineers and scientists; while others focus on the glass ceiling that many existing immigrants and visible minorities experience.

They discovered and refined potent themes about keeping out immigrants, «draining the swamp» and restoring an earlier era of national greatness — as understood mainly to mean for white American men.

So better I live and die in my country as honorable as I could rather than taking for immigration and living in other people's countries afraid and humiliated... it is enough what I read here about America & Europe ill treatment to Asian / MidEastern Muslim immigrants...!!

This is what the doctor had to say about his allegations for filing a lawsuit: «I decided to file this lawsuit to seek justice not only for myself,» explained Dr. Briggs, «but for the hundreds of immigrant families who've suffered medical danger as a result of Catholic Charities» unconscionable record of neglect.

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.

Video number 4 from the Jet Set Vision Trip in Taiwan all goes down during a cab ride through Taipei as Ray Chang and I talk about how second generation immigrant churches in America can be involved in God's global mission.

If you're worried about national security as an American, it might ease your mind to know you are more likely to be killed in an auto accident or even to die from your own clothes igniting or melting than by immigrant linked terrorism.

There are not in our homeland «many millions» of Muslims, as President Bush has mistakenly said, but, aside from African - American Muslims, there are about two million, and he is certainly right in saying that those who are here legally must be treated with the respect that we accord other immigrant groups.

Or his statements in Matthew 25 about what a Christian would do in regards to the poor, the immigrants, the sick and those in prison and how that would affect their behavior as a President.

The President's plan would broaden the eligibility requirements of a current policy that grants deferred action to immigrants who came into the country illegally as children (expanding it to reach about 300,000 new individuals), and, most significantly, would also give the same protection to immigrant parents who have children born in the U.S..

The total U.S. Catholic population has remained at about 24 %, as immigrants have filled the pews the ex-Catholics have left behind.

The single paragraph devoted to Christian Immigrants by Eck in her much - noticed book A New Religious America obscures the fact that the new immigration is bringing about not so much a new diversity among American religions as diversity within America's majority religion.

Catholic churches in America tend to be more unified, since Pope Francis has made his feelings about immigrants pretty clear (as you might expect, he likes them).

Liuan Huska wrote an excellent piece for Her.Meneutics about how her Spanish - speaking immigrant church treats childcare as a community calling, especially considering the fact that many of the mothers and fathers in that community are working hard just to make ends meet.

Before this week's news about protections for Salvadoran immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security announced in November that TPS status for Hondurans could end as soon as July, while TPS for Nicaraguans would end in January 2019.

Immigrants — as well as chefs, activists, restaurant owners, servers, and lawyers — take center stage at these dinners, engaging and educating diners about the realities undocumented people face living and working here.

If ICE and others really wanted to effectively combat illegal immigrant gangs, the illegal immigrants should have thought twice about coming here as children.

- I would go so far as to call American Gods a love story (fraught with fear) about immigrants bringing their culture and beliefs with them on a perilous journey that does not end when they reach the shore.

There are about one million Polish immigrants in the Chicago area, as many as one - third of them undocumented.

The Adolescent Development Lab at UCLA exists to generate knowledge about the development about youth from diverse ethnic and immigrant backgrounds, and to understand the interaction between social and biological development as it relates to behavior.

In her book The Immigrant Advantage, journalist Claudia Kolker writes about an amazing Mexican tradition known as the cuarentana.

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani is emerging as a tribune of truth, perhaps inadvertently, about the intent behind Trump's executive order suspending or barring the entry of refugees and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

The senator challenged the president to back a bipartisan Dreamer deal if he truly wants to prove he's the «least racist» person, as he has claimed in the wake of his controversial comments about certain immigrants» home countries.

Cuomo added the comments, in which Trump complained about immigrants from «shitthole» countries arriving in the United States, as undermining his campaign slogan of making American great again.

[1] As it is not clear which groups the respondents mean when answering questions about immigration (see this report for a discussion of public perception of immigrants), I divide this category into three non-overlapping «immigrant» group: white foreign - born, non-white UK born and non-white foreign - born.

Surrounded by children on the South Lawn of the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll festivities, President Donald Trump lashed out again about DACA, saying that Democrats had abandoned the undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and who have benefited from the program.

Representative Nancy Pelosi, the 77 - year - old House Democratic leader, took the House floor at 10:04 a.m. yesterday, intent on speaking about the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers.

Lets be honest you can be a second or third generation Asian in the UK and still be seen as an Immigrant, when I was in the Labour party and we spoke about immigration you would always hear the same crap about ah yes they may be born here but they all support the Pakistan cricket team.

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.»

He sprinkles his speeches with Spanish and talks about his past as an undocumented immigrant.

Mark - Viverito, an outspoken progressive, pushed as speaker for more stringent limits on police cooperation with immigration officials about undocumented immigrants in their custody and developed a free legal defense fund for immigrants facing possible deportation.

When I was growing up, as the daughter of Pakistani immigrants, the debate in my country was not about religion but race.

Speaking to the Guardian, Miliband admitted the Labour government allowed too many immigrants from eastern Europe into the country by lifting controls on EU accession countries such as Poland too quickly, but denied his party lied about immigration, as claimed by his former adviser Lord Glasman.

This is a tale with traditional points about the immigrant experience which still manages to come over as fresh, expertly - crafted and important.

«He was a dedicated legislator and also very proud of his Greek heritage, giving passionate speeches on the Assembly floor about Hellenism and his journey to America as a Greek immigrant.»

Cuomo said the task force should serve as an example for the rest of the country, taking a swipe at Donald Trump, who is surging in the polls after incendiary comments about Mexican immigrants, WCBS 880's Marla Diamond reported.

While the call mostly covered plans to bring the Independent Democratic Conference (I.D.C.) back to the Senate's Democratic caucus, it eventually drifted into a discussion about fear that Wu's status as the son of immigrants could pose an unfortunate contrast in a New York Democratic primary with Hochul's positions on immigration, such as opposing driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.