Sentences with phrase «immigrant families lived»

Ricky says he speaks Spanish about 90 percent of the time at home and that his family struggles in ways that are common among immigrant families living and working in California's agricultural communities.

The vision was to create a public school that would close the educational opportunity gap afflicting the mostly poor, immigrant families living in East Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Born to a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn on October 27, 1908, Krasner decided early on to pursue a career in the arts.

Not exact matches

Rama Alhoussaini, 23, a Syrian immigrant who lives in nearby Dearborn, said she and her family emigrated to Michigan in 1999 when she was six years old.

She suggests immigrant women instead need better education about balancing family life with employment opportunities.

Particularly for an immigrant looking to build a life for his or her family.

Activists from the movements for Black lives, immigrant rights, Muslim freedom, and others protesting to save their lives, protect their families, or defend their environment and land can't wait for data protection.

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 style of living emerged in the mid-nineteenth century and offered men who were dislocated from family — usually immigrants or young workmen looking for opportunities in a new city — a supportive environment with more than just a room and bed.

Erected in 1906, it commemorates the thousand lives lost, most of them women and children from German immigrant families on an early - summer outing, when the steamer General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River.

I worry that many of the children of those immigrants will assimilate all too well into the actual country we live in, with its horrendously unequal distribution of social capital and family stability.

The immigrants have held jobs, raised families, and lived peacefully in the US over the last 20 years.

Expansion of the immigration detention program would be a travesty when there are humane, fiscally responsible and proven alternatives to imprisonment that support President Bush's assertion that the vast majority of immigrants are «decent people who work hard, support their families, practice their faith and lead responsible lives.»

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.

But by the end of the 1990s the stockyards had closed, and today many of the families of the South High soccer players — with immigrant parents from not only Mexico but also Central America, Southeast Asia and Africa — live in the housing stock abandoned by those Europeans and work in the lone meatpacking plant, a few blocks from the school.

Talk about your own family's immigrant experience («Great - Grandma came from Italy and had to work very hard» or some such) or talk about the ways our world has been shaped by immigrants («What would life be like today without pizza?»).

In this country, 63 % of infants and toddlers (under age 3) with immigrant parents — 1.3 million — live in low - income families.

This movement was dedicated to making life easier for children and youth (i.e. Young Carers) who provided care for family members with chronic conditions, substance abuse issues, mental health issues, and / or provided translation services for immigrant and refugee parents.

Located on 97 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, these very humble multi family dwellings show how these first immigrants lived.

The home secretary tried to argue that article eight of the Act, which guarantees the right to family life, was preventing the deportation of criminals and cited the example of an «illegal immigrant» who could not be deported because of his pet cat.

Half of immigrants overall (51 percent) work in white - collar jobs, the study found, and the large majority (61 percent) live in families earning over $ 80,000 a year.

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.

«This savage move against our brother Ravi Ragbir is an attack on his family, colleagues, and the immigrant communities to whom he's devoted his life,» said Steven Choi, Executive Director of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC).

«Washington's dysfunction has forced millions of immigrant families to live in the shadows, under constant threat of being ripped apart by deportation,» said State Senator Adriano Espaillat.

«CUNY means opportunity for a half - million New Yorkers — a better life for working - class and immigrant families, for people of color,» the ad says.».

«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.

Sessions after lunch will center on narratives for change and will include breakout discussions on helping seniors live healthy, independent lives; helping immigrants and refugees thrive in their new community; and helping children and families escape poverty, among other topics.

This country was built on the backs of immigrants who came here looking for a better life for them and their families, many of them fleeing persecution.

He said he wanted to inject fairness into an «embarrassingly and wrongly inflexible» system that expels immigrants without discretion, without considering the circumstances of a person's life or family, or even holding hearings to consider the possibility that deportation might be unwise or unjust.

«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.

Contrary to public perception, the number of children in immigrant families is not the primary reason more children are living in poverty, a Rutgers study has found, raising the question of whether federal policies affecting immigrants should be significantly altered.

Children in immigrant families have a higher risk of living in poverty than children in native families.

«Because the majority of children in immigrant families, including those in noncitizen families, are U.S. citizens by birth and are likely to remain here throughout their lives, investing in human capital and economic outcomes should be an important national agenda,» he said.

By 2003, when the national child poverty rate had fallen to 17.6 percent, approximately 54 percent of children of immigrants lived in families with incomes under twice the federal poverty level, compared to 36 percent of children of native - born parents.

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.

He urges new policies and outreach efforts to expand health insurance coverage among children living in immigrant families.

While previous studies have shown that children living in immigrant families are more likely to be uninsured, less is known about what percentage of uninsured children who are immigrants or have immigrant parents.

By this definition, nearly one fourth of all US children in 2010 were living in immigrant families.

In 2000, a key study reported that 36 percent of uninsured children live in immigrant families.

Overall, 42 percent of uninsured children in the survey lived in an immigrant family.

Some 50 percent are not recent immigrants; they are from families living in France for many generations.

The absolute reliability in terms of family, such men are the dream guys for Russian women; more so for those Russian women who are already living in the US either as second generation immigrants or as working professionals.

A look into the life of a Bangladeshi immigrant living in Brick Lane, London, with her family & husband from an arranged marriage.

Follow the hilariously true - life adventures of this modern immigrant family and the obstacles of making it in today's America.

Underneath however, Pence is a Rhodesian immigrant with family troubles, including a secret relationship that's beginning to make his work and home life more challenging.

● GOD»S OWN COUNTRY, a feature debut by Francis Lee, beautifully conveys how passion can transform lives, telling the rich and sexy story of a hard - drinking Yorkshire lad who keeps his emotions in check until an irrepressible Romanian immigrant comes to help out on the family farm.

Delving into the lives of both the case officers and the secretive, highly insular Kveld - Ulf, a community of werewolves living deep in the borough, the show based on the IDW Publishing comic created by JT Petty examines city politics, immigrant communities and families divided by ambition, secrecy and tradition.

(In English and German with subtitles) INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Secret of the Grain (Unrated) Cross-cultural drama, set in the seacoast town of Sete, revolving around the frustrating adjustment to life in France by a family of Arab immigrants headed by a divorced and depressed, 61 year - old patriarch (Habib Boufares) who dreams of opening his own restaurant.

The film, which chronicles the life of an immigrant and his family building an empire during one of the most violent years in New York City's history, required two lead actors with recognizable names who could also do some heavy lifting acting-wise.