Sentences with phrase «by immigrants»

Many are key job creators, since companies founded by immigrants that are backed by venture capital have created an estimated average of 150 jobs per company and generated $ 63 billion in sales.

To date the content of American education has been more profoundly affected by the nation's most enduring internal division than by immigrants from abroad, then or now, Hispanic or Asian.

I hope he sees how deeply shaped we are — as a city and as a people — by the immigrant experience.

Today, the apartments are largely inhabited by immigrants and the elderly.

Through their stories, viewers gain insight into situations and challenges faced by immigrant students and their families.

This is not merely by the number of countries of origin represented by their immigrants, but also by the breadth of each country's representation.

This book addresses the issues faced by immigrant children and other newly arrived children, their parents, and educators through chapters for 14 countries.

Founded in 1984, Changing Together is a nonprofit, charitable organization operated by immigrant women for immigrant women.

At the same time there are serious labour shortages in the NHS, the construction industry and farming that have previously been relieved by immigrant labour.

He said he buys everything he needs from small businesses run by immigrants within a block of where he lives.

Poor performance by immigrants on IQ tests had nothing to do with ethnicity and everything to do with poverty.

The sugar plantation consisted of 700 acres, worked mainly by immigrants, and was a working plantation with the last harvest in 1998.

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.

Apart from the fact that it was built by immigrants who murdered & raped the natives & have a dark history of crimes & wars.

«Our union and many other trade and constructions unions were founded by immigrants who couldn't get any other jobs - they weren't welcome in other trades,» said Mike McGuire, political director for Mason Tenders District Council 9, which represents several laborers groups around the city and Long Island.

Raised in New York by immigrant parents from Jamaica, Tammy currently lives in Dorchester with her husband, a nonprofit executive director and their three children.

A rubber stamp made by Immigrant Movement International.

And so there are jobs mostly filled by immigrant workers, because they're not jobs that you can build a life on, that you can expect to be doing for decades as you settle down, buy a house, have a family.

A survey released by the Immigrant Defense Project found about 60 arrests or attempted arrests were made in New York courts this year, with eight in Brooklyn.

[Read more...] about Workshop: Beyond Teaching English: Supporting High School Completion by Immigrant and Refugee Students

GWAN is an incredible collection of stories inspired by the immigrant experience.

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

When it invests in a company created by an immigrant who needs a visa, it also technically hires the founder; that way, the founder is an employee, and thus eligible for an H - 1B visa (which Unshackled then sponsors).

Peruvian cuisine has been influenced by immigrants from Spain, Africa, China and Japan.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli painted a mostly positive portrait of Jackson Heights and its surrounding neighborhoods» economy on a visit to the community last week, saying small businesses owned by immigrants bring in much money and the area has enormous potential growth.

At 11 a.m., Sen. Jose Peralta, Rep. Joseph Crowley and other elected officials will be joined by immigrant rights advocates and immigrants to rally in support of Peralta's bill to provide undocumented New Yorkers access to drivers licenses, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

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

«We want this country to know that this is the country built by immigrants with the blood, sweat and grime of immigrants,» James said.

The Ethiopian artist Aida Muluneh's Sai Mado, The Distant Gaze, deals with the ways in which identity and memory are shaped by immigrant experiences.

ABOUT WELCOME.us Welcome.us, a new non-profit organization, is dedicated to celebrating a United States that is fueled by immigrants from around the world.

The town was originally settled by immigrants from southern Germany.

The company's market area is populated largely by immigrant families from Korea, China, Japan, the Middle East, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, and other countries.

He also said that as politicians ran out of options to explain the decline in economic opportunities, they always conclude that the problems were caused by immigrants who had come to take over local jobs.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, flanked by immigrant advocates, announces a lawsuit he and other states have failed against President Trump over his decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

It is noted not only that he had the same birthday as Lincoln (Lincoln was a particular favorite of the immigrant press — he was because of his humble background seen by the immigrants as a welcoming figure who valued their contribution to America), but also that in his will «Kosciusko requested that the large tracts of land he received for his service in the Revolutionary War be used to help end slavery.»

For instance, the Levi's brand was started by an immigrant who made tough pants for prospectors during the California gold rush.

We are a national network led by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

In these pages I argued that the real problem of «aliens» among us is represented not by immigrants but by the urban underclass and the intellectual overclass, both of whom are profoundly alienated from the rights and responsibilities of the American experience (see «The Aliens Among Us,» The Public Square, August / September 1993).

«In New York, we will continue to stand by our immigrant brothers and sisters,» James said in a statement.

The report «Economic Contributions by Salvadoran, Honduran, and Haitian TPS Holders,» released by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center last year, showed that deporting current Honduran TPS holders would cost our nation more than $ 700 million in lost revenue; lead to a GDP reduction of $ 10.9 billion over a decade; and incur $ 1.6 billion in lost Social Security and Medicare contributions over a decade.

«The core of this is you can't enact public policy based upon a discriminatory animus,» state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, said at John Jay College in Manhattan this morning, flanked by immigrant advocates.

This set of handouts — designed for use by immigrant students and their families — offers specific advice for how to avoid, prepare for and respond during an ICE raid.