Sentences with phrase «fellow immigrants»

When someone who is in this country illegally commits a crime, their victims are usually fellow immigrants.

«First and foremost, he was a Russian Jewish émigré to the Midwest,» Lack says, invoking Stillman's somber, realistic portraits of fellow immigrants in Sioux City, Iowa, where he moved in 1907.

And so as I work toward that next step, I wanted to share some of my lessons learned with fellow immigrant entrepreneurs:

It's allowed Hamdi to hire fellow immigrants and refugees, not instead of American workers but alongside them.

But after immigrating to America in the 1970s and working his way up from restaurant dishwasher to well - to - do businessman, he made a name as a community leader and fixer who would help fellow immigrants.

While we list only his directorial work below, Wilder considered himself a writer first and foremost and attained quite some pre-directorial success with screenplays co-written with Charles Brackett, especially those directed by fellow immigrant and mentor Ernst Lubitsch (to his dying day, Wilder's office was graced by a plaque reading «How would Lubitsch do it?»).

Recalling his own family history of immigration from Italy, Maggiacomo described his great grandmother's microloan finance service, established shortly after she arrived to assist fellow immigrants, as an example of how «purpose and profit go hand in hand».

And immigrants touching U.S. soil for the first time are anxious to grab a piece of the American dream — often by tapping into an ever growing pool of fellow immigrants eager to own property.

The people you've always seen as outsiders — huddled with fellow immigrants, looking rather gauche — become the majority.

RISMEDIA, March 16, 2010 — In the first study of immigrants buying homes in mid-size areas across the United States, researchers at the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate showed an increasing number of new Americans are choosing to put down permanent roots outside major gateway cities, lured by less competition for jobs and growing neighborhoods of fellow immigrants.

Her unspoken mission is to retrace the steps of an old friend, a fellow immigrant to Canada who joined the PKK and died in 2000, according to the film's press notes.

After making the stomach - churning long boat ride over, Ellis moves into a boarding house in the titular New York borough with other single women, most of them fellow immigrants, sharing meals and experiences.

How do the experiences of the Golem and the Jinni mirror those of their fellow immigrants?

Programs specifically for senior immigrants to learn English, skill building, learn about volunteer opportunities and connect with locals and fellow immigrants.

Programs specifically for senior immigrants to learn English, build skills, learn about volunteer opportunities and connect with locals and fellow immigrants.

Peyraud's first wife, a fellow immigrant from Switzerland, died in 1899 and in 1906 he married Elizabeth Krysher, an illustrator and painter of children's portraits; in 1919, the couple settled in north - suburban Ravinia, a section of Highland Park.

Arriving in New York as a stowaway from Holland in 1926, he underwent a long struggle to become a painter and an American, developing a passionate friendship with his fellow immigrant Arshile Gorky, who was both a mentor and an inspiration.

«Our data suggest that immigrants are attracted to homes near active support networks of fellow immigrants and in places with lower rates of immigrant growth resulting in less competition for entry - level jobs,» he added.