Sentences with phrase «high numbers of immigrant»

«What's happening now, all over the country, is an increasing racial, linguistic, and religious diversity» as high numbers of immigrant families settle into small rural communities.

Ukraine's population downsized from 52 million in 1991 to 42 million at present Russia hosts the highest number of immigrants from Ukraine — ...

The metropolitan areas of New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago received the highest numbers of immigrants between 1995 and 2000, according to William Frey's October 2003 study, «Metropolitan Magnets for International and Domestic Migrants» for The Brookings Institution, an independent think - tank in Washington, D.C.

The government has targeted the residential construction industry for its investigation because of its high number of immigrant workers that it employs and after recent investigations have found some construction contractors have been misclassifying workers as independent contractors to get around wage laws, says Nancy J. Leppink, acting director of the department's wage and hour division.

Not exact matches

Brendan Ross, manager of New York City's Peaches Hot House, estimated that the number of immigrants on his staff is closer to 40 %, but noted that «back - of - house [kitchen staff] numbers are much higher.»

Even though Pioneer is considered a «high - needs school» and enrolls a large number of English language learners and children of immigrants, every student gets a chance to learn in Jones» high - tech classroom.

These losses, however, have been partly offset by the number of people who have changed their affiliation to Catholicism (2.6 % of the adult population) but more importantly by the disproportionately high number of Catholics among immigrants to the U.S..

It favors a bill that increases the number of future low - skill immigrants relative to the number of future high - skill immigrants.

In the city's neighborhoods with the highest concentration of immigrants, DiNapoli said the number of businesses grew by 14.8 percent between 2000 and 2007 — far faster than the rest of the city, which grew by 3.3 percent.

The number of immigrants coming into the UK might be considerably higher than official figures suggest, according to a new report.

The numbers of immigrants are higher and many don't speak English.

Mark - Viverito pointed out the much of the work being done by sanctuary cities to protect immigrants began under the Obama administration, which oversaw a high number of deportations.

Many believe the accurate number is even higher because of the presence of undocumented immigrants from Latin America.

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

Chaffetz won bipartisan support in the House more than a year ago for a more limited bill that would shorten the wait for visas for immigrants from countries with the highest number of applications.

Countries such as Canada that receive large numbers of immigrants from areas with a high incidence of TB should also consider increased investment in international TB prevention and management.

Based on studies, there has been a steady increase in the number of interracial marriages since the 1980s, the main reason of which is the high number of Asian and Hispanic immigrants that flooded the United States.

Many talented students in states with high numbers of illegal immigrants, like California and Texas, have struggled to get a college education...

In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.

She has written extensively about the situations of immigrants and English - language learners in a number of settings, and she co-produced and directed Living Undocumented: High School, College, and Beyond, a documentary about the challenges that undocumented students face.

Adjusted means that the approach 1) uses data from the GED Testing Service to count the number of GED recipients and to subtract this number from the total number of individuals who report that they completed high school, and 2) excludes from the calculation recent immigrants, in particular, those who came to the U.S. after age 11 and therefore were educated primarily in non-U.S. schools.

Eighteen - year - old Sahmina Rahman, the U.S. - born daughter of immigrants from Bangladesh, is one of a small number of South Asian high school students here who have joined protests against federal proposals to crack down on illegal immigration.

Our leaders seek to solve the problem of the poor by blaming the teachers and schools that seek to serve them, calling the deepening levels of poverty an «excuse,» rewarding schools that keep out and push out the highest need students, and threatening those who work with new immigrant students still learning English and the growing number of those who are homeless, without health care and without food.

In contrast, the US has a much higher birthrate (around replacement levels for the native born), has an increasing native population due to the baby boom echo, and allows a large number of immigrants each year.

For Mario Bellissimo, of Bellissimo Law Group in Toronto, one of the biggest changes was the «new normal» for the number of immigrants Canada will take in this year — the highest level since 1913.

Compared to German samples, the assessed immigrant population showed an increased number of psychological symptoms and a higher rate (45 %) of mental disorders.

Vancouver and Toronto have been designated high growth super cities with large numbers of immigrants with visas and foreign students arriving every month.

Sweden and Finland reached new highs in absolute numbers of immigrants.

There is certainly a higher quantity of gay males, as well as immigrant workers, who skew the numbers.