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This issue is personal for me because as a college success counselor for KIPP Colorado Schools, a network of six public charter schools, I support students from immigrant families as they navigate through college on their journey toward a degree.

If New York had continued to implement a very flawed Secure Communities program throughout the state, and especially in New York City, it would have led to the routine separation of immigrant families as well as the widespread distrust of law enforcement in immigrant communities throughout the state, creating a public safety crisis for communities like the ones we represent.

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They are the closing the family circle and making wine together — as their Italian immigrant great - grandparents intended.

His business model allows immigrants to transfer as little as $ 2 worth of minutes at a time to family overseas, with no fee to the sender or recipient.

A revealing look at the immigrant family driving Cosabella as the Italian fashion brand creates a new label for JCPenney, experiments with high - tech underwear and expands globally.

As the «Czar of Cars» discusses on CNBC's «Blue Collar Millionaires,» Gill grew up in Fresno, Calif. working in a first - generation Indian family of immigrant farm workers.

Rising prices for assets seem to make most people better off, unless they are renters, or ethnic minorities, or immigrants, or come from large families and don't inherit a home of their own, or get sick and need to pay for medical care, or get fired, or get their pension fund ripped off or otherwise fall outside what most people think of as the bell - shaped curve of good fortune.

As an immigrant in Canada, calling someone «family» is of great value.

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.

IRC provides legal support not only for refugees and immigrants achieving citizenship but also for reuniting their families as well.

But now those are already there at yours maybe if you prepare them right as to education and training for finally deputing them to return to their own countries with the needful backup and authority they will be useful tools for the advancement and prosperity of their nations then you will have no one wanting to immigrate leaving behind their own families and friends... in addition to that you will see those who immigrated towards your country start moving back to their own countries and this is the only solution to resolve the issue of illegal immigration and to find peace... otherwise if things go on as it is today surely slowly slowly you will find that your own countries become inherited by piling up immigrants who might get starved due negligence turn on against the Host country... that has contributed in the destructions of their countries but not towards and advancements or developments of their countries and nations to find peace and make a living..!?

This is what the doctor had to say about his allegations for filing a lawsuit: «I decided to file this lawsuit to seek justice not only for myself,» explained Dr. Briggs, «but for the hundreds of immigrant families who've suffered medical danger as a result of Catholic Charities» unconscionable record of neglect.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

What if we modeled the marriages, the families, care for the poor, and the treatment of the immigrant and the oppressed in a manner that demonstrates the heart of God as early Christians did?

It's a lady - and - the - tramp story, as the orphan immigrant Hamilton courts a daughter of the wealthy Schuyler family.

In the late 1970s my native Pike County, IL experienced an influx of Asian immigrants as several churches sponsored families from Laos out of refugee camps in Thailand, where they had fled from the economic collapse and mass killings that swept Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia after Richard Nixon withdrew troops from the region.

«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 familieAs 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 familieas 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 conference — cohosted by the ERLC and Focus on the Family — features more than 50 speakers addressing not only abortion but such issues as adoption, end - of - life care, ministry to those with special needs, human trafficking, service to immigrants and refugees, and the development of a pro-life worldview.

The son of Belarusian immigrants, Dlagnev clashed with his family as a kid and became a Christian in high school.

What began as a small specialty foods trading company established by six Italian immigrants in 1920 now is a full - scale, family owned business importing and distributing nearly 4,800 high - quality, international food items to more than 1,000 restaurant and retail clients in southern California, Arizona and Nevada annually.

Kim Murray had never been to a food pantry before and as she waited for her turn Tuesday in Skokie alongside a few hundred immigrants, senior citizens and harried families, her troubles seemed to lessen in the face of others.

With municipal ID's and driver's licenses, undocumented immigrants today would be able to better provide for their families, contribute more to the economy and fully integrate into the American mainstream, just as generations of immigrants to this country have before them.»

Pointing to his own family's roots as Italian immigrants, Cuomo said earlier this month, «You want to deport immigrants start with me, because I'm an undocumented person.»

I grew up as the daughter of Muslim immigrants in a very white part of Lanarkshire in Scotland and my family experienced the very good, the bad and the ugly so I really don't need a lecture thankseverso.

The Working Families Party in an email sent Tuesday night links the internecine dispute over control of the state Senate to the passage of the Liberty Act, a measure that would designate New York as a sanctuary state for undocumented immigrants.

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who is not seeking re-election after two terms, said control of Congress and the General Assembly is crucial to preserve values protecting women, minorities, immigrants and working - class families, as well as public safety.

«Utilizing families and their pain and using undocumented immigrants and putting the law in one lump - sum category and vilifying them as criminals is obviously a false narrative that he continues to hold up and it's very dangerous and divisive to this country,» she said during a press conference after Trump signed the executive orders at City Hall.

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.

Spitzer's family history is archetypal: The luxury Upper East Side building where he lives was built by his father, who amassed one of the city's great real - estate fortunes after growing up in a cold - water Lower East Side flat as the son of impoverished Mitteleuropäisch immigrants.

Aniello Rega, an Italian immigrant who lived in Valley Cottage, NY, was diagnosed in 2011 with mesothelioma that his family blames on his work as a barber at the Nanuet Mall, where asbestos was removed during a 2012 reconstruction project.

«As my office's legal guidance makes clear, President Trump lacks the constitutional authority to broadly cut off funding to states and cities just because they have lawfully acted to protect immigrant families,» Schneiderman said.

«The President lacks the constitutional authority to cut off funding to states and cities simply because they have lawfully acted to protect immigrant families — as described in the legal guidance my office issued last week,» Schneiderman said.

The convention is important for her for family reasons, as an Italian immigrant who was raised in the Bronx near Fordham Road and became an American citizen about six years ago.

She reiterated, as advocates have for the past two months, that the pilot program — the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project — has not discerned between those undocumented immigrants convicted of violent crimes and those convicted of no crime at all.

The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.

Klein's turncoat coterie has insisted that their relationship with Republicans has enabled the passage of liberal measures — including paid family leave, a minimum wage hike, laws barring the prosecution of minors as adults for certain nonviolent offenses and the creation fund for the legal defense of undocumented immigrants.

As a member of the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, we applaud Senator Klein and Senator Alcantara for their vision and forethought in funding and expanding this much needed universal representation program for detained immigrants,» said Angela Fernandez, Esq., Executive Director of Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights.

«As a fellow senator, I have watched Adriano successfully fight for working families and immigrants,» Mr. Rivera said in a statement.

«As Attorney General, she has been a fighter for middle class families, for children, for immigrants, and for the environment,» Perez said in a statement released by Harris» campaign.

The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP) was launched in 2013 as a pilot program to provide representation for indigent detained people in proceedings at Varick Street Immigration Court.

Backers of the legislation, including City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, lauded it as a way to end warrantless detention of immigrants that they argued are unconstitutional, and as a way to keep city families together and reform broken immigration policies.

Cameron also rounded on the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, accusing him of wriggling over his offer of an amnesty to illegal immigrants that Cameron said would allow 600,000 people who came here illegally to stay, as well as bring their families.

New York's immigrant families are waking up terrified as President - elect Trump, his supporters and growing administration spew hate.

Cuomo cited «concerns about the implementation of the program as well as its impact on families, immigrant communities and law enforcement.»

During the campaign, she defined herself as a feminist who understands the struggles of working families and immigrants, someone who could break barriers for the upper Manhattan district, which has long been dominated by male leadership.

He released his first advertisement this week, in which he introduces himself as the son of immigrants and as the first in his family to go to high school or college.