Sentences with phrase «immigrant children as»

The government is not allowed to jail immigrant children as a result of a federal court settlement.

Second graders create portraits of immigrant children as they read their stories and consider the upheaval in their lives.

Zeldin attributed his win to growing dissatisfaction with the direction of the country, naming ISIS and unaccompanied immigrant children as two main woes.

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Undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children start businesses at twice the rate of the general population, research finds.

Clinton said she favored covering the children of undocumented immigrants under existing health care laws, as part of a larger fix to improve immigration laws.

Trump has said Dreamers «have nothing to worry about,» but Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week said immigrants who arrived in the United States as children were «subject to being deported.»

Most of us have succeeded because of admissions policies that took our race, class, and unique experiences as immigrants and children of immigrants into consideration.

As the child of immigrants, Hong says, this environment was one that he could relate to.

Chief of staff John Kelly phoned Trump from Capitol Hill to advise him against accepting the proposal, and the president summoned conservative Republican negotiators to help build a united front against the plan, which would have provided some border security funding as well as protection from deportation for immigrants brought to the country as children and now here illegally.

He said having shelters in Massachusetts would have no impact on town budgets and when an immigrant child moves into a community, he said, «it's just as if your cousin moved to town.»

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

The measure also blocks a 2012 order from the president that protected immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children — and it attempts to reverse a series of White House memos that said terrorists and criminals should be deported first.

First - generation immigrants or their children had founder roles in more than 40 % of the Fortune 500, including such marquee companies as AT&T (No. 11), Procter & Gamble (No. 31), Goldman Sachs (No. 74), Pfizer (No. 51), eBay (No. 180), Google (No. 46), Intel (No. 53), Kraft (No. 156), Cigna (No. 97), and Kohl's (No. 151).

Ruby Polanco, the Honduras - born founder of Ruby Makeup Academy, based in Temple City, California, came to America like hundreds of thousands of other immigrants — she was brought here as a child.

The immigration plan will help undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, and young immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children.

A child of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Cherny says he watched his mom and dad — who worked as a school counselor and a teamster, respectively — struggle with a banking system that largely catered to the wealthy.

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.

FB, -0.91 % founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to his platform to offer words of support to immigrants and the children of immigrants, known as Dreamers.

Ms. Powell Jobs has become a leader in pushing for decade - old legislation known as the Dream Act, a measure that would provide legal status for immigrants who arrived in the country as young children.

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.

• Mr. Trump tweeted on Sunday that there would be no deal to protects thousands of young immigrants brought to the country as children and threatened to walk away from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

A third federal judge has rejected the Trump administration's justification for winding down the program protecting immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children.

He said today that Apple will do «everything we can» to encourage Congress to make the bipartisan Dream Act — legislation that would offer a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children if they graduated from high school or obtained a GED — permanent.

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.

President Trump will support a path to citizenship for 1.8 million young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, in exchange for a $ 25 billion fund for the border wall and other immigration cuts.

They are more likely middle - aged immigrants buying a second property as a retirement investment or home for their children.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKennzie, have donated $ 33 million to a college scholarship program for young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

Immigration is a big issue for Zuckerberg, who is a huge supporter of Dreamers — undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.

For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

Yes, many are the children of illegal immigrants (as are two out of three of the country's foreign - born Hispanic kids.)

But they're born in the U.S. and, Roberts continues, are learning English at the same rate as Asian immigrant children.

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 communitAs 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 communitas a professional in the community.

God comes among us as a vulnerable baby born among the homeless, lives as an immigrant, associates with the outcasts and compares the kingdom to receiving a little child.

The plan also broadens the requirements necessary for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the country as children, essentially granting legal status to hundreds of thousands more.

The President's plan would broaden the eligibility requirements of a current policy that grants deferred action to immigrants who came into the country illegally as children (expanding it to reach about 300,000 new individuals), and, most significantly, would also give the same protection to immigrant parents who have children born in the U.S..

DREAMers, undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children, and their allies had been protesting and advocating for a bill to protect them before the government shut down pending a spending bill.

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.

Self - reliant yet familial immigrants did what was required to succeed in order that their children could go to college and prosper more easily and more honorably as free and equal persons.

Each band member is either an immigrant or the child of immigrants, and the record serves as an exploration and examination of the immigration experience in 2016 America.

And even while we wait for Congressional action for «Dreamers,» undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.

So I hope that as he flies home on September 27, the Holy Father will understand that American Catholics share every ounce of his passion for Christian service and human dignity — beginning with the unborn child, but not ending there; including the poor and the immigrant, but reaching from conception to natural death... and confirming that the «joy of the Gospel» comes from a Gospel of Life.

«As Christian leaders, we have a commitment to caring for the vulnerable in our churches while also supporting just, compassionate, and welcoming policies toward refugees and other immigrants,» the letter opens, going on to request legal protection for the Dreamers who entered the US as children, an increase in the admittance of refugees and persecuted Christians, and quicker priority for immigrants seeking to reunite with their familieAs Christian leaders, we have a commitment to caring for the vulnerable in our churches while also supporting just, compassionate, and welcoming policies toward refugees and other immigrants,» the letter opens, going on to request legal protection for the Dreamers who entered the US as children, an increase in the admittance of refugees and persecuted Christians, and quicker priority for immigrants seeking to reunite with their familieas children, an increase in the admittance of refugees and persecuted Christians, and quicker priority for immigrants seeking to reunite with their families.

As the Trump administration has shifted policies on undocumented immigrants and individuals with temporary protected status (TPS), putting more individuals at risk of deportation, Christians have quickly brought up the dilemma of mixed - status families, whose children are US citizens but parents are not.

There is a reason that African immigrant child are starting to score as high in grades and apt «itude test.

«We've been setting our sights on how to get to the second generation buyer, children of immigrants who over the past couple of years have been going to retailers such as Safeway, Kroger's and Whole Foods.

If ICE and others really wanted to effectively combat illegal immigrant gangs, the illegal immigrants should have thought twice about coming here as children.

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Under the Act, children adopted abroad can automatically acquire U.S. citizenship if: at least one parent of the child is a U.S. citizen; the child is under the age of 18; the child is admitted to the U.S. as an immigrant for lawful permanent residence; and the adoption is final.

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.

In its endorsement, Make The Road Action Executive Director Javier Valdés cited the push for «driver's licenses for all» as well as the backing of the state - level version of the Dream Act, a bill that would provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children.