Sentences with phrase «immigrant communities across»

To accomplish the goal of providing free legal service to asylum - seekers and access to justice to immigrants, PAIR conducts asylum intakes, screenings and consultations for detained immigrants, and «Know Your Rights» presentations in detention centers and in immigrant communities across Massachusetts.

Jaime also worked in Arizona as a Policy Director with Border Action Network, a human rights organization that works with border and immigrant communities across the state.

Add to this the unseen pressures — fractured or fragmented home lives, emotional or physical violence and abuse, struggles with substance use, legal problems, and the wide range of issues borne by the many immigrant communities across the country — and it makes for a period of unsustainable emotional distress.

«I'm actually dedicating my speech to Donald Trump, because I think that thanks to his lovely anti-immigrant rhetoric, his misogyny, his bigotry, he's really galvanizing and mobilizing and energizing immigrant communities across the nation,» Ms. Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico and the first Latina to be Council speaker, said today during a press conference at City Hall.

Not exact matches

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

City Councilmen Peter Koo (R - Flushing) and Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria) held a rally for greater police presence in Flushing at the James A. Bland Community Center at 133 - 36 Roosevelt Ave., across the street from the Mobil gas station where Pakistani immigrant Nadeem Khan was killed July 25.

ActionNYC will create «community navigation hubs» at immigrant services organizations across the five boroughs, as well as rotating legal clinics.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio launched the $ 7.9 million ActionNYC program, which will create community hubs across the five boroughs where immigrant New Yorkers can receive information and legal support and get help preparing applications.

«Immigrant communities in New York and across the country need our support as they are faced with uncertainty from the federal government.

«While millions of immigrants across the State are eager to learn English and improve their community and economic standing, Governor Pataki is defying the State Legislature and cutting vital funding intended to help immigrants and all low - income New Yorkers,» said Jose Davila, State Government Affairs Representative for the New York Immigration Coalition.

«Across New York, fraudulent service providers are making millions of dollars by ripping off immigrant communities for what they think are rushed or necessary applications for life - altering legal documents: green cards, entrance visas for family members, or the passports to leave and enter the country,» read the release.

«At a time when New York's immigrants are under attack, this funding will go a long way to supporting projects that will protect, defend and empower our communities across the state,» said Steven Choi, executive director, New York Immigration Coalition.

At a community action group comprised of Mexican immigrants, one woman explains of the terrible ordeal she and her daughters went through to get across the border, and her utter determination to make this new life for herself and her family speaks volumes about the significance of multi-cultural communities and building homes away from home.

If a civics program is important for our nation's future leaders across the board and to our democracy, it is more so for an immigrant community that is in a state of transition and whose youth struggle with issues of identity and belonging.

This exhibition is inspired by the economic and political situations in marginalized communities across the globe and how these communities are perceived once they become immigrants or refugees.

A cohort of approximately 60 Fellows are placed at nonprofit organizations across the country to provide direct representation to victims of crimes, including human trafficking, fraud / identity theft, campus sexual assault, and hate crime, and immigrant victims of crime with meritorious claims for immigration relief, and outreach and education to community partners.

A cohort of approximately sixty fellows are placed at nonprofit organizations across the country to provide direct representation to victims of crimes, including human trafficking, fraud / identity theft, campus sexual assault, and hate crime, and immigrant victims of crime with meritorious claims for immigration relief, and outreach and education to community partners.

January 26, 2017 — «At a time of uncertainty and anxiety in immigrant communities here and across the nation, a merger between Neighbors Link in Mount Kisco and the Pace Community Law Practice in White Plains will formalize a partnership between two nonprofit service organizations with overlapping missions.

Head Start programs serve diverse children and families including American Indian and Alaska Native communities, migrant and seasonal workers, immigrants, refugees, and more; efforts to understand these programs should be as inclusive as possible of the breadth of communities and families served across the United States.

Collectively, immigrants have added $ 3.7 trillion to U.S. housing wealth, helping stabilize communities across the United States.