Sentences with phrase «immigrant children with»

Assigning students to classrooms based on performance and ability gained popularity in the mid-19th century, when public schools began enrolling large numbers of immigrant children with limited preparation or capacity for schooling compared with native children.

Is it one where newly arrived, immigrant children with limited or no formal schooling are taught reading readiness and simple mathematics?

Majority of the people I see in there are immigrant child with their parents and working adults who buy one game a year.

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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.

When Rick Perry was still a candidate, Romney clashed with him over Texas providing in - state college tuition to the children of illegal immigrants.

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.

Trump avoided using word «refugees» or «immigrants» while handing award to teacher who works with newly arrived 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our task now is to support the good in Mr. Trump's policies and to resist the bad — and thereby prove to our countrymen that the meaning of «pro-life» begins with the unborn child, but in embracing the poor, the elderly and the immigrant, it never ends there.

He drew the children of the German and Scandinavian immigrant underclass to his mission with candy and pony rides, and he drew the adults through evening prayer meetings and English classes.

They point to her 2 - 1 margin with Latinos over Obama in the 2008 primary and the latest party platform, which calls for a path to citizenship «for law - abiding families who are here,» the end of immigration raids against children and families, due process for «those fleeing violence in Central America,» and to rescind statutory bans on immigrants who modify their status in the country.

In a «good enough» city, the city that the churches seek to build, unskilled immigrants, single women with children and young adults would be able to secure a promising foothold.

But he has partnered with the Trump transition team to address immigration policy, particularly the status of children of undocumented immigrants.

I worry that many of the children of those immigrants will assimilate all too well into the actual country we live in, with its horrendously unequal distribution of social capital and family stability.

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 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.

«The immigrant families I see at school have just landed in Mt. Prospect with small children,» says Hernandez.

This movement was dedicated to making life easier for children and youth (i.e. Young Carers) who provided care for family members with chronic conditions, substance abuse issues, mental health issues, and / or provided translation services for immigrant and refugee parents.

For example, how do immigrant children fare when faced with a new social context to which their fathers» cultural values and behaviours must be adapted?

Sources with knowledge of the talks say the Dream Act — legislation that would provide access to tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants — will not be in the resolution.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged national Democrats this weekend to not trade off legal protections for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children with funding for a wall on the Mexican border.

In a wide - ranging interview with the AP, Trump said young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and now here illegally can «rest easy,» telling the so - called «dreamers» they will not be targets for deportation under his immigration policies.

Spotlights on stage were given to groups Trump has demonized: people with disabilities, undocumented immigrants, mothers of children lost to gun violence, and a «Gold Star» Muslim - American family that publicly challenged Trump to a contest of who better represents American values.

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.»

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 so - called «racist vans», which drove around poor, mixed areas of London with some pretty ugly Children of Men - style demands for illegal immigrants to «go home», recently forced Twitter into a spasm of liberal outrage.

It would mean adopting what a recent YouGov poll revealed was the favoured solution of about half of Ukip supporters of «encouraging» lawfully settled immigrants (together with their British - born children) to return to their country of origin.

We can increase ESL classes throughout the state, hire interpertors so that immigrant parents can easily communicate with their American citizen children's teachers, increase funding for immigration advocacy and citizenship application programs.

Andrew Cuomo doesn't care that illegal immigrants that are here in this country kill innocent Americans everyday, driving intoxicated, street gangs, cheap labor off the books, fathering american children, taxpayers are flipping the bill here supporting them with housing, food stamps, medicaid, healthcare plus they're out there working off the books for cheap labor and they don't pay taxes.

The Dream Act — which provides state tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants — wasn't included following a public back and forth with Latino members of the Legislature.

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.

With that history, it seems unlikely that Senate Republicans will rush to back items like a provision to codify the abortion rights in the federal Roe v Wade decision into law, or enact the Dream Act, which would give college aid to children of immigrants who are in the country illegally.

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.

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 child of immigrant parents, the district's Councilmember Margaret Chin, recalled her family's own experience with a language barrier.

Mario was an F.D.R. liberal (and child of immigrants) with an unyielding faith in the government's power to improve people's lives; Andrew is a product of the Nixon era, when that faith was tested and the government again had to prove its competence.

Trump said he is open to a path to citizenship after 10 to 12 years for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, days after rejecting a bipartisan plan with that as its centerpiece.

The Hempstead Union Free School District, under scrutiny for failing to enroll more than 30 immigrant children at the start of the school year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these students.

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

The phrase was ill - judged enough but even more horrendous given he said it sitting on a panel with two people who are the children of immigrants.

Brake referred to the BBC's recent drive to get children interested in classical music, using 10 pieces of music and dressing them up with film clips and different instruments, and suggested that something similar could be done to change the caricature of immigrants.

Cuomo had linked the Dream Act, to provide college aid to children of immigrants, with an education tax credit favored by the Catholic Church.

The speaker noted that under her tenure, the City Council has passed legislation significantly reducing the city's cooperation with immigration enforcement efforts except in the cases of violent offenders, and that it has fully financed programs that offer universal representation to detained immigrants and unaccompanied minors and young mothers with children placed in expedited removal proceedings.

The Woolworth Kitchen is in her district and she represents one of the more diverse districts in the city, with plenty of people who are immigrants, children of immigrants, parents of immigrants, friends of immigrants, employers of immigrants, employees of immigrants.

«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.»