Sentences with phrase «by immigrant children»

The diversity of student backgrounds is reflected in their research interests, which include the development of compassion and gratitude in children, the challenges faced by immigrant children and corporate leadership coaching.

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More than 40 percent of businesses on the U.S. Fortune 500 List are launched by immigrants or children of immigrants.

Some bearish investors argued that Silicon Valley has become increasingly dependent on immigrant workers, with seven of the most well - known tech firms helmed by immigrants or their children.

DACA immigrants are people who were brought to the country by their parents when they were young children — often referred to as «Dreamers.»

In addition, according to a report by The Partnership for a New American Economy, more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants (or their children).

Forty percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants and H - 1B workers fulfill highly paid roles where existing demand can not be met by domestic candidates, he said.

In fact, seven of the 10 most valuable brands in the world come from American companies founded by immigrants or their children, including Apple, Google, AT&T, GE, IBM and McDonald's.

According to a study by the New American Economy, immigrants or their children founded more than 40 percent of the companies on the Fortune 500 list in 2010.

Cendy is one of millions of immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children — a group known as «DREAMers» by advocates of the Dream Act, a federal bill first introduced in the Senate in 2001 to allow them a pathway to permanent residency.

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.

In fact, 40 % of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said he is «encouraged» by President Donald Trump's discussions with Democrats to protect the status of Dreamers, the thousands of young unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

I have previously laid out the case that the government has cheated legal immigrants for decades by erroneously counting the spouses and children of immigrants against the quotas for immigration, thereby reducing the total amount of immigration substantially.

But candidate and MP Michael Chong, whose stump speech begins with a story about being the child of immigrant parents, could shift easily into the space vacated by Kenney's departure.

Do the math: More than 40 % of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children.

By the way... the recent words of our President concerning immigrants and thier children would also apply to Muslims and thier children.

«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.

As I go to court with poor immigrants, visit their children in schools and translate for them in job interviews, I am always stmck by how much social capital I have by simply being able to speak English well and to work as a professional in the community.

And yet the swell of immigrants (more than twelve million illegal and eleven million legal since 1986, according to his figures) is still dwarfed by the cohort of unborn children lost to abortion in the United States (more than twenty - nine million during the same two decades).

Immigrants, who risked everything to come here, are also being exploited by Obama, for their votes... for Obama is systematically eliminating opportunities for individuals to build a business, and provide a better life for their children.

Immigrant Jewish children in New York's garment district often were raised by grandparents or great - grandparents, as were Italian children in Chicago and San Francisco.

We can't call ourselves Catholic, and then simply stand by while immigrants get mistreated, or the poor get robbed, or unborn children get killed.

But they talked nothing but economics — against bailouts and being stimulated, against the fiscal disaster that ObamaCare will be, for the «fair tax,» against the tax burden that are the children of illegal immigrants, and against the huge debt given us by the combo of Bush and Obama.

And while this educational gap was perhaps understandable in a church dominated until the very recent past by immigrants and their children, it is nonetheless a formidable problem today, for, in Cicero's words, «Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.»

She has had the opportunity to explore child birth from different perspectives by: developing and teaching Prenatal Yoga classes, caring for pregnant social high risk and new immigrant women at the Northeast Health Centre, and by working in Nunavut as a Maternal Newborn Health Services Consultant for the Government of Nunavut.

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.

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.»

It is also one of the major reasons why immigrants are deported, how families get torn apart by child welfare services, and why former convicts get trapped in the parole system, he added.

Thanks to legislation approved by then - Governor George Pataki, children of undocumented immigrants can attend public colleges and pay the same tuition as other in - state students.

It is time for New York to join other states by further extending a helping hand to immigrant children who arrived in New York through circumstances beyond their control, yet who share the same hopes, aspirations and potential of their counterparts.

Today, President Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program instituted by President Obama, which gave illegal immigrants who came to America as children two - year work...

A number of other items that Cuomo initially tied to passage of the budget also were dropped, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, and an education tax credit sought by the Catholic Church, among others.

Obama was heckled several times by Dreamers — undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and want immigration reform.

Interesting fact: 3 out of 5 top tech companies in America were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.

Supporters of the measure to give state aid for college tuition to children of undocumented immigrants say they are disappointed and saddened that the measure lost in the Senate by just one vote.

Speaker Silver says while his Democratic members feel strongly about offering tuition aid to children of immigrants, they do not have a consensus on a proposal by Governor Cuomo, to offer free college to inmates in state prisons.

By way of biography Malliotakis described herself as the child of immigrants, with a mother from Cuba and a father from Greece, who grew up spending a great deal of time in their family business in Sunset Park.

«Today, no battle is more important to me,» said Linares, who has served as New York City's Immigrant Affairs Commissioner, «than the fight to make a college education possible for all immigrant children by passing the Dream Act in New YorImmigrant Affairs Commissioner, «than the fight to make a college education possible for all immigrant children by passing the Dream Act in New Yorimmigrant children by passing the Dream Act in New York.»

How is the problem of Latin American immigration and the recent wave of immigrant children seen by two spokespersons for the region?

It's also seen as a litmus test for President Donald Trump, who is lauded by many of the district's Cuban - American voters for chilling his predecessor's accord with Cuba but is denounced by other Hispanics for his hard - line stance on immigration, especially policies involving undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, known as «Dreamers.»

A number of other items that Governor Andrew Cuomo initially tied to passage of the budget also were dropped, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, and an education tax credit sought by the Catholic Church, among others.

The present analysis has therefore reduced the CPS imputed Medicaid costs for immigrant children in the Medicaid and CHIP programs by 50 percent in the «current law» analysis.

Agencies under the UJA - Federation umbrella have lost a total of $ 6 million due to Paterson's veto of legislative earmarks known as member - item grants, the latest in eight cycles of budget cuts that have rocked the non-sectarian network of special education, child care, mental health, immigrant and other services, lowering revenue by 5 to 7 percent, said Soloway.

A lawsuit filed by AG Eric Schneiderman against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high school.

The budget will not include a number of items that Governor Cuomo had desired, including a minimum wage increase, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid for children of immigrants who came into the country illegally, and an education tax credit sought by, among others, the Catholic Church.

Citizen Action was joined by union - backed groups like the Alliance for Quality Education and Strong Economy for All, as well as Make the Road New York, which has pushed for the Dream Act that would allow tuition assistance for illegal immigrants or their children.

The pronouncements by the leaders came just a week after the Senate rejected the DREAM Act bill, which would have set aside $ 25 million for college tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants.

A lawsuit filed on Tuesday by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high school.

Cuomo had linked the Dream Act, to provide college aid to children of immigrants, with an education tax credit favored by the Catholic Church.

Young immigrants who were brought into the U.S. as children would be eligible to keep their New York driver's licenses even after a federal program protecting them ends under legislation introduced recently by Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda.