Sentences with phrase «immigrant communities in»

We stand with Liberian and Black immigrant communities in opposition to this cruel decision.»

Before law school, Adam was a case manager working with immigrant communities in the South Bronx and his native Oklahoma.

Eva Frankfurther, who has a parallel show until 18 June, came as a child, studied alongside Auerbach and painted immigrant communities in London's postwar East End.

The film follows members of the Liberian Women's Chorus for Change as they use music to strengthen immigrant communities in Philadelphia.

In partnership with the Queens Library, the Queens Museum's New New Yorkers program offers free multilingual classes to meet the needs of adult immigrant communities in Queens.

Kafetzis lived with various immigrant communities in Greece and produced a visual narrative of their lives in relation to their faith.

Neighborhood folkloric dance groups and musicians reflecting the diverse immigrant communities in Queens» neighborhoods perform throughout the day.

Furthermore, she often tackled subjects that were perceived as «risky» during her lifetime: Neel is known for painting gay people long before homosexuality was legalised, transvestites, members of the poor, immigrant communities in Spanish Harlem (where she lived), candid portraits of nursing and pregnant women as well as unflinching male and female nudes.

After all, I thought, where better to find some airport noodles than in a foodie city that's home to one of the most vital Asian immigrant communities in North America?

PORTLAND, Ore. — July 14, 2011 — This weekend, Multnomah County Library will be presented with a 2011 National Association of Counties Achievement Award for its work with immigrant communities in Multnomah County.

He was recognized in 2009 by Latino Perspectives Magazine as one of 40 Hispanic Leaders Under 40 for his work in education and parental involvement programs for low - income families, and by Valle del Sol as the Profiles for Success» Advocate of the Year in 2014 for his efforts in supporting immigrant communities in Arizona.

And again, it's racist: illegal aliens provide illegal labor and hurt white, black and legal immigrant communities in numerous ways.

In efforts to address the concerns of immigrant communities in light of recent immigration policy changes, the New York City Council...

The mission of Refugee and Immigrant Self - Empowerment (RISE) is to advocate and promote self - sufficiency through employment, education, social support and economic independence for members of the refugee and immigrant communities in Onondaga County, NY.

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

New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito vowed to further restrict the city's cooperation with federal immigration authorities under President Donald Trump, delivering a full - throated defense of immigrant communities in her fourth and final state of the city address.

Mutual benefit societies have been particularly important in immigrant communities in the United States at times when the governmental social safety net was weak.

This includes designing policy programs to provide detailed information about the changing Chinese economy, to develop platforms for sharing experiences and expertise among investing firms, and to mobilize the knowledge bases of transnational immigrant communities in Canada.

During his ministry to the German congregation in London from 1933 to 1935, he worked closely with British churches and the growing German immigrant community in England to spread awareness of what was happening in Nazi Germany.

Earlier this week, I went to a small town about 40 minutes east of where I live to speak on behalf of the immigrant community in the hopes that the city council wouldn't vote to oppose SB 54 (California's major piece of legislation that creates real limits on state and municipal law enforcement from being used for immigration enforcement).

On an unrelated matter, Picente noted that he had attended an event in support of the sizable immigrant community in Oneida County, particularly Utica, which has a long history of welcoming refugees, though it is not an official sanctuary city.

«The Immigration Practice at The Bronx Defenders is committed to serving the Bronx immigrant community in every way we can during these difficult times.

PUZZLE is a closely observed portrait of Agnes, who has reached her early 40s without ever venturing far from home, family or the tight - knit immigrant community in which she was raised by her widowed father.

As a publicly engaged scholar, Glennys» research focuses on health disparities, educational inequalities, food injustice, and social justice issues affecting the Dominican immigrant community in Greater Boston.

The imagined dancers in Fantasy Will Set You Free invoke dance floors from the artist's youth, from New York City night clubs, to parties organized by Ahkami's parents for the growing Iranian immigrant community in the 1980s and 1990s.

Working with the diverse immigrant community in his home city of Los Angeles, the artist creates portraits that investigate feelings of being an outsider in the very place you call home.

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She also serves on the board of SAPNA NYC, a nonprofit organization that serves the South Asian immigrant community in New York City with scientifically - backed evidence - based programming.

Manuela brings a vast amount of professional experience working with Latinx * immigrant community in the Minneapolis / St.

Is your market ready for EB - 5 type investors, or do you prefer (and is your market better equipped) to help members of a growing immigrant community in your area?

Not exact matches

An increasing level of mistrust between immigrant communities and the Trump administration in recent months has only exacerbated concerns that DACA recipients could be easily targeted for deportation, according to Reaz Jafri, an immigration attorney at the firm Withers Bergman.

This concerns local police who say they need the cooperation of all people in the community, including lawful and undocumented immigrants, in reporting crime and aiding criminal prosecutions.

In the coming decade, immigrant entrepreneurs will continue to play a crucial role in the small business communitIn the coming decade, immigrant entrepreneurs will continue to play a crucial role in the small business communitin the small business community.

We have seen a boom in minority - owned businesses, particularly in the Latino and immigrant communities.

«Such a divide between the local police and immigrant groups will result in increased crime against immigrants and in the broader community, create a class of silent victims, and eliminate the potential for assistance from immigrants in solving crimes or preventing crime.»

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.»

«We're part of a community of companies that is helping [immigrant] customers understand the landscape of financial services» in the U.S., said Raul Vazquez, chief executive of Oportun.

We will fight for the rights of immigrants in our communities so that each of us can be who we are with optimism and hope for the future.

We're going to ask [these 22 female GOP representatives] for a verbal commitment that they will stand up for intersectional women's health, that we will make it clear that includes immigrants, refugees, people of color and the LGBTQ community in the United States.

The law, known as Senate Bill 4, is slated to take effect Sept. 1, but has been challenged in court by rights organizations and localities that say the law infringes on local governments» constitutional rights, and will sow fear through immigrant communities by dissuading people from reporting crimes or testifying as witnesses out of fear they will be deported.

President Trump has already received blowback for his decision to ban immigrants from seven Muslim nations, and a potential executive order could have the tech community up in arms.

A report from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Center, for instance, looked at data from the Survey of Business Owners and the American Community Survey and determined that though immigrants make up 13 percent of the U.S. population in general, they make up 18 percent of small business owners, and that immigrant - owned businesses account for 14 percent of private sector employment.

In tough language, the letter contends that such a policy undermines the entire life sciences community and sends a devastating message to immigrants who would otherwise bring their talents to the United States, and was signed by some heavy hitters, including Alnylam CEO John Maraganore and Ron Cohen, the chairman of biotech's biggest trade group and lobbying arm.

In the area of Human Rights, Equity and Diversity (HRED) he guides national strategies on Diversity and Inclusion, Temporary Foreign Workers (migrant workers), Racialized, Aboriginal, Immigrant, LGBT, and other equity seeking communities, with a view to qualitative and quantitative organizational growth.

Around this time, Cohen's personal life and business interests both became deeply enmeshed in a community of Ukrainian immigrants in New York City.

Some ethnic communities, particularly immigrants of Chinese heritage are being blamed by some observers as being responsible for high urban real estate prices in Vancouver.

This scandal is only the latest in a string of worrisome disclosures about the use of social media by third parties, from foreign governments and electoral candidates to law enforcement agencies, to spy on the activities of users — especially immigrant, Black and other vulnerable communities.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

Mission Asset Fund works with immigrant communities and the Latino community to help build wealth in essence.

Certain parts of Canada still have growing immigrant populations (Toronto & Vancouver in particular have huge Asian immigrant communities).