Sentences with phrase «immigrant families at»
«charter schools — public schools — are clearly laying out obstacles bigger than those in the applications of private universities, with requirements that put low - income students, foster children and those from poorly educated or immigrant families at a disadvantage.
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Independent Street takes a look at a story from the Richmond - Times Dispatch that claims that the values immigrants learned about «being thrifty, avoiding excessive debt, and relying on family support from native countries» are helping them ride out the recession.
«I'm an undocumented immigrant, so I suffer in my own experience with my family,» said Quintero at a Lansing, Michigan, rally.
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.
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..!?
- how you can call yourself «family values» voters while supporting Trump's mass deportation, which would orphan or displace 4.5 million children who are U.S. citizens but who have at least one parent who is an undocumented immigrant,
Illegal immigrants came from Bangladesh and Pakistan into India and each of the family has at least 7 - 8 kids and no food to provide for.
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.
While my husband was getting his Ph. D at Princeton, we became close friends with an immigrant family in our neighborhood.
; ««La Comida» Makes for a Big Family Meal at Mothers & Sons»; and «The Restaurant Industry Depends on Immigrants.
Originally opened in 1886 by German immigrant John Geist Sr., the property at 311 Jefferson was once home to Nashville's oldest family - owned business until 2006.
«The immigrant families I see at school have just landed in Mt. Prospect with small children,» says Hernandez.
The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project provides representation for those detained in proceedings at Varick Street Immigration Court.
«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.
From the Mets players that are at Citi Field, right, to every New Yorker should be registered for IDNYC»cause that is the best way for us to protect our immigrant families.»
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.
Wednesday afternoon, the Graduate Center at CUNY will host another public lecture in the Immigration Seminar Series: «Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families.»
«These community groups, which represent tens of thousands of working families, have been at the forefront of the Fight for $ 15, worker and immigrant rights, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, climate justice and more.
At 5 a.m., Make the Road New York, immigrant youth and families from New York and Long Island depart for Washington, DC, to joint thousands from across the country in calling for the passage of» «a clean Dream Act.»
Speaking at the annual National Immigrant Integration Conference in Brooklyn, Cuomo mocked the anti-immigration sentiment that has permeated the nation's political discourse, touting his own family's struggles after coming to the US from Italy.
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.
«We are a nation of immigrants, and New York will always fight to remove barriers to inclusion, including those that put low - income families at another disadvantage.»
Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearat Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearAt a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms
He said that in addition to raise the age, the new state budget contained «a lot of smart things,» including legal defense services for immigrants and free tuition at CUNY and SUNY for families with annual incomes below $ 125,000, measures he said other states would try to duplicate.
It is a tough immigration bill with a soft side that protects those who hire unauthorized immigrants «for the purpose of obtaining labor or other work to be performed exclusively or primarily at a single - family residence.»
New York Governor Cuomo is offering his top attorneys to help defend detainees and their families affected by President Trump's executive order banning immigrants, in the midst of second day of protests across the nation, including at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport.
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.
Bridget Ball Shaw, a board member of the Capital District Women's Bar Association Legal Project, which offers pro bono representation to immigrants, said at the public forum that news of the 287 (g) program had already frightened immigrant families.
- Help immigrants by «implementing the Empire State Immigrant Defense Project; expanding the naturalization services offered at the state's Office of New Americans; pressing for passage of the DREAM Act; and convening the New York State Blue Ribbon Panel on Immigrants to make recommendations that support the integration and success of immigrants and their familiimmigrants by «implementing the Empire State Immigrant Defense Project; expanding the naturalization services offered at the state's Office of New Americans; pressing for passage of the DREAM Act; and convening the New York State Blue Ribbon Panel on Immigrants to make recommendations that support the integration and success of immigrants and their familiImmigrants to make recommendations that support the integration and success of immigrants and their familiimmigrants and their families.»
The North Side neighborhood that once housed mostly German and Italian immigrants is now home to a new group of immigrants where 20 percent of families speak a language other than English at home, according to U.S. Census data.
«In the short time that he has been leading the district attorney's office, Eric has addressed the concerns of the diverse immigrant communities of Brooklyn by opposing the Trump administration's harmful proposals that can, at the very least, disrupt the daily life of some Brooklynites and at worst, break up families.
During their testimony, Wadhwa and Arora each argued strongly for raising the percentage of foreign immigrants admitted to the United States on the basis of their STEM skills, at the expense of immigrants admitted via family reunification policies or the diversity lottery.
Each year's data included over 40,000 children living in immigrant families: those who had either immigrated themselves or had at least one immigrant parent.
The children of immigrants who grow up with two languages — one spoken at home with family, the other learned at school — frequently become balanced bilinguals.
«These findings suggest family and community factors at play that help children in immigrant families buffer the effects of adverse childhood experiences, and that whatever these resiliency factors are, we should work towards protecting and extending them to subsequent nonimmigrant generations,» says
For the study, a child from an immigrant family was defined as a foreign - born or U.S. - born child with at least one foreign - born parent.
Lisa DeCamp, M.D., M.S.P.H., assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study's senior author, noted that although parental surveys of this kind have weaknesses in terms of parent responses reflecting the breadth of traumas children may be exposed to, the findings, published in the Oct. issue of the journal Pediatrics, offer new insight into potentially higher childhood resiliency among immigrant families supported by strong community networks and a strong sense of cultural identity.
Using data from 2011 to 2012 gathered for the U.S. National Survey of Children's Health, a nationally representative landline and mobile phone survey of households that have at least one resident child up to 17 years old, DeCamp and colleagues sought to determine whether an association existed between ACE exposure and immigrant family status for Hispanic children.
Asian children in both immigrant and non-immigrant families showed relatively high rates of preventive dental utilization at each time point and were also comparable to each other (e.g. 69 % and 63 %, respectively, in 2010).
Immigrant children are at risk for poor school achievement, particularly when they are from low - income families.
The white family who, like so many others at the time, flees from South Africa in The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat also draws empathy from the filmmaker, who as a resident of South Africa herself, realized that there were whole generations of Caucasian immigrants who knew no other home.
Spa Night (Director & Screenwriter: Andrew Ahn)-- A young Korean - American man works to reconcile his obligations to his struggling immigrant family with his burgeoning sexual desires in the underground world of gay hookups at Korean spas in Los Angeles.
The romance between an art student at Duke University and the bullrider she meets at a local rodeo is unexpectedly impacted when they save the life of an elderly widower, compelling him to re-live his loving WWII - era marriage to an immigrant teacher who inspires him to amass a remarkable modern art collection which eventually helps the cowboy save his family's ranch.
Based on the novel by Colm Toibin and adapted by Nick Hornby, it's an immigrant story, which makes it a quintessentially American story, with points of connection for anyone whose family arrived at Ellis Island.
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.
The Unknown Girl (Belgium) revisits themes from earlier films — poverty in poor communities, families going paycheck to paycheck, immigrants at the bottom of the social food chain — but views them through the eyes of a young doctor (Adèle Haenel).
Yoshikawa, who previously served as a professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, focuses his research on the development of young children in immigrant families, and the effects of public policies on children's development.
Single mom Esmeralda Cerezo finds strength by volunteering daily at the Healthy Start center at Madison Elementary, providing extra resources and helping immigrant families feel welcome in the school community.
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.