Sentences with phrase «immigrant children from»

What reformers need to do is give attention to a much more - important matter: Building brighter futures for the 57,000 undocumented immigrant children from Central America crossing the Mexican border into America.

According to analysis conducted by School Dash, schools with a large number of caucasian immigrant children from the European Union outperform those without.

Piney Branch Elementary serves an incredibly diverse group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, from the children of übereducated white and black middle - class families, to poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, to low - income African American kids.

Wanting to see for himself, Mike visits his local elementary school in Takoma Park, Maryland, where «the children of übereducated whites» are in the same classrooms as poor blacks, black middle - class families» and «poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.»

Separating immigrant children from their parents.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump is expected to announce Tuesday the end of an Obama - era program that protects children of undocumented immigrants from deportation, but he may include a six - month delay, according to The New York Times.

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.

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.

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.

More recently, he ended an Obama - era program that protected the so - called dreamers - children of immigrants who crossed the border illegally - from deportation.

Children of immigrants from nearly all visible minority groups earn less than their Canadian - born peers.

• 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.

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.

But a push to end a program that shields the children of undocumented immigrants from deportation, a move the administration has been considering, seems «self - defeating,» Mr. Zalesne said.

The threat of a lawsuit from 10 conservative state attorneys general has led to reports that President Donald Trump plans on ending or at least modifying the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a program that protects children of undocumented immigrants who were brought into this country when they were too young to have a say.

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.

Not only is the dark virgin «the single most powerful element in Mexican Catholicism,» but her very darkness has enabled her to symbolize the postcolonial, miscegenized mestizo nation.47 It is not uncommon today for recent immigrants (for example, from the Spanish Civil War) and their children to be targets of discrimination.

From Steve King's comments about unauthorized immigrant children to Donald Trump's promises of mass deportations, it can seem that our politics is forcing us to choose between the foreign and native - born members of our working - class.

Even now we have not achieved full equality between the white European immigrants, the native Americans, the children of black slaves from Africa and the newer immigrants from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Being immigrants, or children of immigrants, these people could not pretend they came from old and prestigious families; money was the sole instrument of their snobbery.

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.

We understood our schools to be taking children of immigrants from many cultures and preparing them for participation in American democracy.

Finally, consider the militarization of our society's response to recent racialized conflict: From tear - gassed protesters and check points on Ferguson thruways to calls for a militarized response to immigrant children fleeing oppression in neighboring countries.

We join the American Academy of Pediatrics in firmly opposing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security proposal reported in the media that would separate immigrant mothers from their children.

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.»

«Farage has called for a bar on the children of legal immigrants from public schools and health services, has said women are — and I quote — worth less than men, and supports scrapping laws that prevent employers from discriminating based on race.

Whereas, Mr. Paladino acknowledged that he made these statements; And, Mr. Paladino is an elected official charged with the responsibility to represent children and families in a district comprised of over 70 % Black, Brown, Asian, Immigrant and other minority students and families; And, Mr. Paladino took an oath to ensure that students are afforded an environment which is free from fear and respects diversity within the school district and the community and is subject to all district policies; And,

The incredible natural calamities occurring around the world have understandably taken away public attention from important policy decisions, such as the Trump Administration's move to end federal policy protecting the children of undocumented immigrants.

Other findings from the Siena poll: 56 percent are in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana, and 61 percent of New Yorkers are in favor of the Dream Act, which would allow children of undocumented immigrants to receive college financial aid.

Many long - term immigrants who arrived from the Commonwealth as children have been told they are here illegally.

Katko reiterated his support for renewing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama - era program that protected from deportation nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children.

Cuomo, in exchange for an endorsement from the left leaning Working Families Party, promised to help reunite the two Democratic factions in order to achieve passage of several progressive issues, including public campaign financing, a women's equality act with an abortion rights provision, and a measure to give college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, known as the Dream Act.

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.

In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump said he would «cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities,» roll back President Barack Obama's executive actions shielding undocumented foreign nationals who arrived as children, deport what he claims are «more than two million criminal illegal immigrants from the country» and get eliminate of visas to foreign countries that will not take them back.

The site is a location federal officials have looked at as a potential place to house some of the immigrant children flooding across the border from Central America in recent months.

Citizenship and Immigration Services has resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under the Obama - era program that shields from deportation young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and who remain in the country illegally.

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.

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.

In a win for 800,000 young immigrants who came illegally to the United States as children, a Brooklyn federal judge refused to throw out challenges to Trump's elimination of the program that keeps them from being deported and gives them work permits.

The children, who come from countries including Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, typically are eligible for either special immigrant juvenile status or asylum due to the dangerous and often violent situations they are fleeing from in their home countries.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, D - Fairport, says ending an Obama immigration policy that protects children of undocumented immigrants from deportation would damage the economy.

«Outside of cities with mass transportation, undocumented immigrants are at a serious disadvantage without driver's licenses, making simple tasks like picking up groceries, picking up a child from school or going to work a struggle.»

As the children of immigrants, we take attacks from Trump and his supporters personally and are filled with the courage needed to fight harder and smarter than ever to protect the rights and freedoms of

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by former Democratic President Barack Obama protected certain immigrants who entered the country as children from deportation.

Queens residents will be able to meet one - on - one with MOIA representatives between 10:00 AM — 6:00 PM on those days and confidentially discuss their immigration - related issues, including possible enforcement actions and the planned termination of DACA, a federal initiative that has protected 800,000 undocumented immigrants nationwide from deportation who were brought to the United States as children.

DACA gave undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States at children the authorization to work and go to school, as well as the protection from detention or deportation.

A native of Queens, and the oldest of three children born to immigrants from Taiwan, she had intended to become a teacher, and was well liked but regarded as serious and low - key at Stuyvesant High School, said Councilwoman Jessica S. Lappin, a classmate.

As the Trump administration announced Tuesday the rescinding of DACA, the Obama - era program that protected children of undocumented immigrants from being deported, thousands of recipients have been left unsure of their futures and legal teams have already began questioning the president's action.