Sentences with phrase «about immigrants because»

It's like people complaining about immigrants because «they're all on welfare and taking our jobs.»

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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.»

Cook had previously withdrawn Apple's participation in the 2016 Republican convention that nominated Trump as a candidate because of his comments about race, immigrants and other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

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.

Setting aside for the moment the impact on families and communities, Evercore noted that such an exodus «would likely hit demand» for Constellation brands because Mexican immigrants» beer capita consumption is about two times the general population.

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

Theresa May told the Conservative Party Conference about those she claimed had abused the Human Rights Act to stay in the UK including one illegal immigrant who could not be deported because he had a pet cat.

Andrew Neil asked Theresa May about her Conservative Party conference speech where she claimed an illegal immigrant was allowed to stay in the country because of his cat.

NBC Fires Donald Trump NBC said Monday that it is ending its business relationship with mogul and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump because of comments about Mexican immigrants.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, an advocate for immigrants and the Latino community, said she would dedicate a speech she is delivering on immigration in Washington D.C., tomorrow to Trump because his rhetoric about immigrants has helped engage them in the political process.

«Treating taxis — who have paid into the system and should be exempted from additional charges — the same way as those responsible for the problem makes no public policy sense because it won't reduce congestion,» said Nino Hervias, a spokesman for the Taxi Medallion Owner Driver Association, which represents about 1,500 individual taxi owners, most of whom are immigrants.

NBC said Monday that it is ending its business relationship with mogul and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump because of comments about Mexican immigrants.

Though I am primarily a food critic, I have written a book about the traditions of American cooking (which included a chapter on school lunches) and can tell you that hot lunches in public schools were originally produced, with a few exceptions, early in the 20th century by local charities because immigrant children were coming to school hungry.

Rosa Fernandez, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who graduated from New York City's Manhattan International High School, put it this way in The Schools We Need, a publication by and for high school students produced by the nonprofit organization What Kids Can Do: «Small schools are perfect for teenagers, because we need people to be warm and care about us, to be after us — otherwise, we might take the wrong road.»

That's because the book — a nonfiction story about 19 Mexican immigrants who died while trying to cross the border in Texas 14 years ago — hit close to home.

In fact, between 1840 and 1880 Germans were the largest group of immigrants, boosted by the «Forty - Eighters» - a wave of political refugees leaving the German confederacy either because they were on the government's wanted list or simply because they were disappointed by the failure of the 1848 uprisings to bring about political change and wanted to start afresh in a new country.

While she talks about high - profile international events — such as the Whitney Biennial 2014 (the artists «felt that they encountered institutional racism»), the 19th Biennale of Sydney («the main supporter [was] an Australian corporation that runs prisons for undocumented immigrants») and Manifesta 10 («the artists ended up boycotting because of the anti-LGBT laws» in Russia)-- the Houston show will focus on local incidents.

A regional politician in Germany has been sentenced to pay a fine of 1,500 euros or spend 50 days in prison because he allegedly called Thilo Sarrazin, the author of an incendiary book about Muslim immigrants, an «ass.»

POGG symbolizes Canada and without knowing a single thing about the Canadian Constitution, millions of immigrants have been drawn to Canada since 1867 because of their belief that Canada would offer them a place of peace, order and good government.

In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant families27 and families with low socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant parents in parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a high dropout rate of immigrant parents are associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born parents in Sweden showed that Somali parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their parenting behaviours.

And here is the «price» we all must pay for unlimited cheap labor over the last 40 years; instead of factories producing, green, long lasting, efficient, modular housing that would probably cost about as much as a honda accord, we are stuck with a perception that site built is better, preferable, the only attractive option, because we have been able to take advantage of immigrant workers to create an unsustainable system that does not value the cost efficiencies granted every other mass produced product.