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Coming from an immigrant community where we experience higher uninsured rates, Obamacare was a new opportunity for my family to get affordable coverage and to get insured without being discriminated against due to pre-existing conditions.
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ICAN serves as a platform where immigrants who run social enterprises can exchange experiences with Community Economic Development practitioners, to identify the best ways to support immigrants and refugees.
When Jobe launched New Life Community Church 25 years ago, the Midway neighborhood where his main campus is located was primarily populated by descendants of Polish, Lithuanian and Italian immigrants.
Can you readers send some of that compassion to Alabama, Arizona, Conneticut, and to every state and community where immigrants are abused?
Kepel's conclusion is that the real battleground for hearts and minds lies in the immigrant communities of European cities, where Muslims are being propagandized with «terrorist ideology and tactics.»
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).
«Senator Ball seems not to be aware that municipal IDs have been used for years in cities from New Haven, Connecticut, to San Francisco, California, where they have greatly improved cooperation between immigrant communities and law enforcement.»
Crosland Moor and Netherton, where Labour have two of the three councillors, features working class communities with a strong immigrant presence.
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.
Adriano Espaillat, in endorsing Mr. Rodriguez, grieved the loss of Mr. Linares» services to the immigrant community, urging him to remain at his post where he is needed.
It could also send up warning signals to the city's growing immigrant community that Commisso is more concerned with where you are from than what you have to offer.
To help our new neighbors achieve their full promise, we created the New Americans Advisory Committee to more fully integrate our immigrant population into Erie County life; thereby strengthening the fabric of the communities where they reside.
The schism between Boughton and the immigrant community has largely healed and he continues to be re-elected by wide margins in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans.
Inner London on the deprived fringe of Fulham and Kensington, where upmarket bars turn into fruit and veg stalls and the old west end communities rub up against the Asian and Caribbean immigrant families who frequent the street markets and halal butchers.
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.
The entrepreneur's death sent shock waves through the Caribbean community in New York, where he was seen as an immigrant success story, and in Jamaica.
«In New York, where would be without our immigrant communities?
«With President Trump's relentless attacks on immigrant communities, it is more important than ever before to make it clear that New York is a state which welcomes immigrants, and a state where immigrant families can succeed,» Moya said.
«What the borough president and I wanted to do was simply have an event where people could just meet each other, get to know each other, and build relationships,» said Council Member Greenfield at the event, who noted that there is a «commonality of interests» between the Jewish and Latino communities, especially as both share the immigrant experience.
Such was the case in 1998 at Susan B. Anthony Elementary School, in Sacramento, California, where a high percentage of Southeast Asian immigrant families in the school community spoke little English, lived in poverty, and were almost completely disconnected from the school.
This would prove helpful in Boston, where long - established African American and Hispanic communities have in recent years been joined by immigrants from the Caribbean and elsewhere.
And most of these schools are going to be located not where our immigrant community live,» said Lazos.
They include a «Later to Literacy» program that supports the literacy needs of ESL students; the «Village of Attachment,» where staff, families, and community members create a web of support around the most vulnerable students; «Youth in Transitions,» an after - school program that works closely with students alongside their parents; and «PAWS,» a program designed to help immigrant students who entered the school system late in their high school years develop fundamental skills for success.
Manning teaches English to newly arrived immigrants and refugees at Joel E. Ferris High School, where she uses experiential projects like map - making to help her students process trauma, celebrate their home countries and culture, and learn about their new community.
The town where she grew up has a large Irish immigrant community, and although Greta and Michael's story is in no way autobiographical, it is this community that inspired certain aspects of The Walking People.
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?
(Flickr Photo / Maurizio Pesce) President Trump's actions on immigration during his first week in office are sending shock waves through the technology community, where immigrants comprise... Read more»
In 1938 Neel's strong social conscience and left - wing ideals led her to move from Greenwich Village to Spanish Harlem where she painted portraits of the city's immigrant community.
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.
His mother moved her three children to Detroit, where Stankiewicz grew up in a predominantly German and Polish immigrant community.
But in Queens, where 165 different languages are spoken, Ms. Raicovich seems to be charting her own community - focused path, with an emphasis on making the museum a safe haven for the borough's large immigrant population.
Prerana Reddy is the Director of Public Events at the Queens Museum, where she oversees the Museum's community engagement and public art initiatives working with a full - time community organizer to combine arts and culture with social development goals in nearby neighborhoods predominately comprised of new immigrants.
New York City, where Guyanese immigrants are the 5th largest foreign - born population, is affectionately known as «Little Guyana» home to the most significant Guyanese community in the diaspora.
Aliza Nisenbaum's paintings as mentioned earlier are works that depict an immigrant community, struggles and all, where families and people live and work.
Finally, in our special column, Inside Burger Collection, Bharti Lalwani discusses ideas of home and inclusion within South - Asian - American immigrant creative communities, through the framework of the recent group exhibition «Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora» at the Asia Society Museum in New York, and the three - day convention titled «Fatal Love: Where Are We Now?»
Where: Gonzaga University School of Law partnered with Refugee Connections Spokane and the Community Colleges of Spokane to host a workshop, «American Law & Justice for Refugees and Immigrants» on March 9, 2016 at Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane, Washington.
In seeing communities where all immigrants overcome obstacles to succeed and thrive in the United States.
In the last several months, we heard a lot of rhetoric from Trump that has created a frighteningly more dangerous America for people of color — one where unlawful stop - and - frisk policies (which have been found unconstitutional) are enforced, where immigrants are at risk of facing immediate deportation, where Muslims may be banned from entering the country, and where discrimination against LGBTQ communities and disabled people is deemed acceptable.
Tallying up what we know also confirms where our gaps are, and we still have many gaps in relation to understanding violence against those very women who are most vulnerable, including women with disabilities, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) women, women from immigrant and refugee communities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
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