«This program will focus on the unique aspects of educating
immigrant children by examining current research on language education, socio - emotional well - being of immigrant youth, and family engagement that truly supports learning.»
«Today, no battle is more important to me,» said Linares, who has served as New York City's Immigrant Affairs Commissioner, «than the fight to make a college education possible for
all immigrant children by passing the Dream Act in New York.»
Not exact matches
More than 40 percent of businesses on the U.S. Fortune 500 List are launched
by immigrants or
children of
immigrants.
Some bearish investors argued that Silicon Valley has become increasingly dependent on
immigrant workers, with seven of the most well - known tech firms helmed
by immigrants or their
children.
DACA
immigrants are people who were brought to the country
by their parents when they were young
children — often referred to as «Dreamers.»
In addition, according to a report
by The Partnership for a New American Economy, more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded
by immigrants (or their
children).
Forty percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded
by immigrants or the
children of
immigrants and H - 1B workers fulfill highly paid roles where existing demand can not be met
by domestic candidates, he said.
In fact, seven of the 10 most valuable brands in the world come from American companies founded
by immigrants or their
children, including Apple, Google, AT&T, GE, IBM and McDonald's.
According to a study
by the New American Economy,
immigrants or their
children founded more than 40 percent of the companies on the Fortune 500 list in 2010.
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.
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.
In fact, 40 % of Fortune 500 companies were founded
by immigrants or their
children.
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.
I have previously laid out the case that the government has cheated legal
immigrants for decades
by erroneously counting the spouses and
children of
immigrants against the quotas for immigration, thereby reducing the total amount of immigration substantially.
But candidate and MP Michael Chong, whose stump speech begins with a story about being the
child of
immigrant parents, could shift easily into the space vacated
by Kenney's departure.
Do the math: More than 40 % of Fortune 500 companies were founded
by immigrants or their
children.
By the way... the recent words of our President concerning
immigrants and thier
children would also apply to Muslims and thier
children.
«They were workers in the Twin Towers - Americans
by birth and Americans
by choice,
immigrants who crossed the oceans to give their
children a better life,» he continued.
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 community.
And yet the swell of
immigrants (more than twelve million illegal and eleven million legal since 1986, according to his figures) is still dwarfed
by the cohort of unborn
children lost to abortion in the United States (more than twenty - nine million during the same two decades).
Immigrants, who risked everything to come here, are also being exploited
by Obama, for their votes... for Obama is systematically eliminating opportunities for individuals to build a business, and provide a better life for their
children.
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.
We can't call ourselves Catholic, and then simply stand
by while
immigrants get mistreated, or the poor get robbed, or unborn
children get killed.
But they talked nothing but economics — against bailouts and being stimulated, against the fiscal disaster that ObamaCare will be, for the «fair tax,» against the tax burden that are the
children of illegal
immigrants, and against the huge debt given us
by the combo of Bush and Obama.
And while this educational gap was perhaps understandable in a church dominated until the very recent past
by immigrants and their
children, it is nonetheless a formidable problem today, for, in Cicero's words, «Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a
child.»
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.
Surrounded
by children on the South Lawn of the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll festivities, President Donald Trump lashed out again about DACA, saying that Democrats had abandoned the undocumented
immigrants who were brought to the United States as
children and who have benefited from the program.
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.»
It is also one of the major reasons why
immigrants are deported, how families get torn apart
by child welfare services, and why former convicts get trapped in the parole system, he added.
Thanks to legislation approved
by then - Governor George Pataki,
children of undocumented
immigrants can attend public colleges and pay the same tuition as other in - state students.
It is time for New York to join other states
by further extending a helping hand to
immigrant children who arrived in New York through circumstances beyond their control, yet who share the same hopes, aspirations and potential of their counterparts.
Today, President Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program instituted
by President Obama, which gave illegal
immigrants who came to America as
children two - year work...
A number of other items that Cuomo initially tied to passage of the budget also were dropped, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to
children of undocumented
immigrants, and an education tax credit sought
by the Catholic Church, among others.
Obama was heckled several times
by Dreamers — undocumented
immigrants who came to the U.S. as
children and want immigration reform.
Interesting fact: 3 out of 5 top tech companies in America were founded
by immigrants or the
children of
immigrants.
Supporters of the measure to give state aid for college tuition to
children of undocumented
immigrants say they are disappointed and saddened that the measure lost in the Senate
by just one vote.
Speaker Silver says while his Democratic members feel strongly about offering tuition aid to
children of
immigrants, they do not have a consensus on a proposal
by Governor Cuomo, to offer free college to inmates in state prisons.
By way of biography Malliotakis described herself as the
child of
immigrants, with a mother from Cuba and a father from Greece, who grew up spending a great deal of time in their family business in Sunset Park.
How is the problem of Latin American immigration and the recent wave of
immigrant children seen
by two spokespersons for the region?
It's also seen as a litmus test for President Donald Trump, who is lauded
by many of the district's Cuban - American voters for chilling his predecessor's accord with Cuba but is denounced
by other Hispanics for his hard - line stance on immigration, especially policies involving undocumented
immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as
children, known as «Dreamers.»
A number of other items that Governor Andrew Cuomo initially tied to passage of the budget also were dropped, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to
children of undocumented
immigrants, and an education tax credit sought
by the Catholic Church, among others.
The present analysis has therefore reduced the CPS imputed Medicaid costs for
immigrant children in the Medicaid and CHIP programs
by 50 percent in the «current law» analysis.
Agencies under the UJA - Federation umbrella have lost a total of $ 6 million due to Paterson's veto of legislative earmarks known as member - item grants, the latest in eight cycles of budget cuts that have rocked the non-sectarian network of special education,
child care, mental health,
immigrant and other services, lowering revenue
by 5 to 7 percent, said Soloway.
A lawsuit filed
by AG Eric Schneiderman against the Utica City School District charges that
children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring
immigrants from the district's only public high school.
The budget will not include a number of items that Governor Cuomo had desired, including a minimum wage increase, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid for
children of
immigrants who came into the country illegally, and an education tax credit sought
by, among others, the Catholic Church.
Citizen Action was joined
by union - backed groups like the Alliance for Quality Education and Strong Economy for All, as well as Make the Road New York, which has pushed for the Dream Act that would allow tuition assistance for illegal
immigrants or their
children.
The pronouncements
by the leaders came just a week after the Senate rejected the DREAM Act bill, which would have set aside $ 25 million for college tuition assistance to the
children of undocumented
immigrants.
A lawsuit filed on Tuesday
by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, against the Utica City School District charges that
children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring
immigrants from the district's only public high school.
Cuomo had linked the Dream Act, to provide college aid to
children of
immigrants, with an education tax credit favored
by the Catholic Church.
Young
immigrants who were brought into the U.S. as
children would be eligible to keep their New York driver's licenses even after a federal program protecting them ends under legislation introduced recently
by Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda.