Sentences with phrase «early immigrants from»

In fact it was probably early immigrants from Sicily who practised fertility cults here.

The practice of mumming (also known as mummering or janneying) in Newfoundland originated with the early immigrants from Ireland and the United Kingdom.

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Demographically, Argentina feels familiar to Americans — most Argentines descend from European immigrants who came during the late 19th and early 20th centuries — and its capital city could easily be mistaken for Paris or Madrid.

«Like many of you, I'm concerned about the impact of the recent executive orders signed by President Trump,» Zuckerberg said, referencing the orders Trump signed earlier this week to build a wall along the U.S. - Mexican border and prioritize the deportation of undocumented immigrants from so - called sanctuary cities in the U.S.

Earlier on Thursday, Trump described his efforts to remove unauthorized immigrants from the US as «a military operation,» a phrase that seemed to contradict efforts from White House officials who said the military would not be involved with the deportation plans.

For example, when President Donald Trump issued a travel ban on immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations early in 2017, many companies took to social media to protest.

With Congress stalemated over immigration, Flake earlier this week sought to force a Senate vote on temporarily protecting «Dreamer» immigrants from being deported, while financing Trump's border wall for three years, but another Republican blocked Flake's effort.

As it shows, the 19th and early 20th century saw large numbers of immigrants from anocracies, some from democracies, and few from autocracies.

The conceit that law is not a business, or only incidentally so, seems connected with the efforts of elite lawyers in the early years of this century to distance themselves from the buccaneer - founders of their own firms and from «hustling» immigrant lawyers, as well as to assert their independence from their own clients.

Erected in 1906, it commemorates the thousand lives lost, most of them women and children from German immigrant families on an early - summer outing, when the steamer General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River.

Located in the Saginaw Valley in east central Michigan, Frankenmuth is one of four small communities established in the area by German Lutheran immigrants from Franconia (now part of Bavaria) in the late 1830s and early 1840s.

But my world was different from that of my immigrant parents, let alone the first - century world Jesus had lived in 2,000 years earlier.

The North Carolina Moravians, immigrants from Pennsylvania, brought «Spanish peppers» to Salem as early as 1759.

Since the early 20th century, most of the Mexican immigrants to Chicago came from the country's central and southern states, bringing with them the meaty braises and stews of Jalisco (most famously pozole), fiery salsa de molcajete from Guerrero, and golden - fried pork carnitas and fresh - juice paletas from Michoacán.

He had earlier joined other leading golf organizations in a tepid statement that suggested then - candidate Trump's incendiary remarks about Mexicans and immigrants might compel a change of venues from Trump properties, most famously the Cadillac tourney at Trump National Doral.

Earlier this week, I went to a small town about 40 minutes east of where I live to speak on behalf of the immigrant community in the hopes that the city council wouldn't vote to oppose SB 54 (California's major piece of legislation that creates real limits on state and municipal law enforcement from being used for immigration enforcement).

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 meet.

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.»

A day earlier, Cuomo addressed a group of union workers and said he was «raised by poor immigrants from South Jamaica,» a neighborhood in Queens, New York.

In an earlier scandal in 2012, the New York Times reported that Grimm asked for campaign donations from undocumented immigrants.

Mark - Viverito commissioned an analysis earlier this year on the potential price of deporting undocumented immigrants and prohibiting Muslims from entering the country — which found they could cost the city and the state $ 800 million in tax revenue and bring about a decrease of 340,000 jobs.

Early Tuesday morning, Cuomo's primary opponent, Cynthia Nixon, marched from Bowling Green to Wall Street with the immigrant - rights group, Make the Road.

Steve Choi, president of the New York Immigration Coalition, a prominent immigrant advocacy group that has hosted a number of actions in response to Trump's immigration policies such as the executive orders targeting people from Muslim - majority countries, said that as a state legislator, Schneiderman was an early supporter of driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

One of the themes that emerged early on was the difference between the perception that immigration is a real problem — and that immigrants are taking jobs, houses and money from the indigenous population — and the reality, which is the opposite.

Tea party supporters at a rally in Massapequa roared their approval yesterday as Rick Lazio bashed big government, high taxes and praised immigrants from earlier generations.

At an address on immigration in Arizona, Trump will reportedly likely continue to distance himself from his earlier «deportation force» idea, which called for rounding up all undocumented immigrants.

The most recent nod came early Friday, when Make the Road Action — a grass - roots immigrant rights group that receives ample funding from labor — said it would back Ms. Nixon because of «her strong progressive platform and her commitment to passing and implementing the full protections and supports that our communities need and deserve.»

In the late 19th and early 20th century, this region attracted European immigrants who developed farms or took over existing ones, particularly from Italy and Poland.

DeLaRoca, 45, of Spring Valley who is also an illegal immigrant won $ 3 million from a scratch off lottery ticket in early 2011.

Ice Age Immigrants (Eurasia 7,000 - 45,000 years ago) aDNA from 51 individuals reveals the earliest modern humans to reach Europe went extinct; those arriving in subsequent waves, starting 37,000 years ago, left descendants who remain to this day.

That's the conclusion of linguists and a geographer, who have together identified 18 Aboriginal stories — many of which were transcribed by early settlers before the tribes that told them succumbed to murderous and disease - spreading immigrants from afar — that they say accurately described geographical features that predated the last post-ice age rising of the seas.

This elite and visible unanimity, however, belied the tangle of issues revealed earlier in the day during the smaller, nontelevised meeting where scholars from economics, political science, law, and public policy examined the likely difficulties of devising immigration policies that help the economy without harming immigrants or people who are already in the country.

The immigrants from low - income nations President Trump disparaged earlier this month in a closed - door White House meeting (he reportedly referred to them as «shithole» countries) may well have been driven from communities in rural Africa by economic hardship related to lack of power, Rogers said.

By analyzing the teeth of those buried in different locations in Cahokia, Emerson, state archaeological survey bioarchaeologist Kristin Hedman and graduate student Philip Slater discovered that immigrants formed one - third of the population of the city throughout its history (from about AD 1050 through the early 1300s).

What led to the project: Weiva Sieh's parents — immigrants to New York City from China — made an early bet, in real estate, that their children would both be top science students.

Follow - up time was based on the earliest date of entry into the risk period (date of 14th birthday or, for all immigrants older than 14 years on arrival, date of immigration) until exit from the cohort.

Adapted by Joel and Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson from Laura Hillenbrand's book, Unbroken deliberately zeroes in on the discrimination Louie and his family suffered as Italian - American immigrants in the early 20th century, a cruelty that led Louie to turn to alcohol and petty theft.

PUZZLE is a closely observed portrait of Agnes, who has reached her early 40s without ever venturing far from home, family or the tight - knit immigrant community in which she was raised by her widowed father.

The 21 - year - old Irish - American actress doesn't hit a false emotional note, contrasting the naivete of her heroine's early days away from home with the self - assurance of an immigrant, who finally realises that she belongs.

The Brooklyn that Eilis travels to in 1951 is still the Brooklyn of early - 20th - century legend, a place reached by ship, with immigrants from everywhere, brownstone buildings and a National League baseball team that plays at Ebbets Field.

The Brooklyn that Eilis travels to in 1951 is still the Brooklyn of early 20th century legend, a place reached by ship, with immigrants from everywhere, clay and brownstone buildings, and a National League baseball team that plays at Ebbets Field.

The Unknown Girl (Belgium) revisits themes from earlier films — poverty in poor communities, families going paycheck to paycheck, immigrants at the bottom of the social food chain — but views them through the eyes of a young doctor (Adèle Haenel).

In the major cities of the Northeast, where Catholic immigrants from Europe had settled in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the reduction in the number of Catholic schools was similar.

He draws evidence from an enormous mass of translations of editorials and articles from the immigrant press in Chicago and Cleveland, made by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

While earlier waves of immigrants originated in Europe, nearly one third of the immigrants residing in the U.S. today — or some seven million — have come from Mexico.

Huntington's central concern is that 35 years of heavy migration has established a large Hispanic population in the United States that is substantially different from earlier immigrant groups.

In this webinar, sponsored by the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Opportunities (CEELO), Dr. Steven Barnett, Principal Investigator of CEELO and Director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) and Dr. Milagros Nores, Associate Director of Research at NIEER, will present data that looks at how children from various language and immigrant backgrounds participate in pre-K programs and at how these children perform relative to their White peers at Kindergarten entry.

Dr. Gadsden's research and scholarly interests focus on children and families across the life - course, from early childhood through the aging process, particularly children and families at the greatest risk for academic and social vulnerability by virtue of race, gender, ethnicity, poverty, and immigrant status.

The Impact of Discrimination on the Early Schooling Experience of Children from Immigrant Families.

In the ebook, Gutman traces Lin's rise from his earliest days as the child of Taiwanese immigrants in California.