Sentences with phrase «immigrant groups as»

Demographers point to immigrant groups as the source of household formation and favorable trends in population growth that will benefit the U.S. relative to geographies with aging populations like the EU and Japan.

However, this barrier is not unique to Hispanics; it's among the top obstacles facing other immigrant groups as well.

Not exact matches

Resistance to their removal has not been as great as resistance to removing other groups of immigrants, such as undocumented college students.

Agencies also provide a crucial stepping stone into the job market for groups that tend to have trouble finding their first jobs, such as young workers and new immigrants.

In recent years, immigrant rights protests shrank as groups diverged and shifted their focus on voter registration and lobbying.

The nonprofit group WelcomingAmerica.org is already running similar programs in such cities as St. Louis and Detroit, which are supporting immigrants as a way to spur stagnant local economies.

Wages and working conditions must improve, and employers must invest more in training, in particular among under - represented groups such as immigrants, youth and aboriginal Canadians, he said.

Immigrants to the U.S. are nearly twice as likely to start businesses than native - born Americans, the group found, and more than half of privately held American companies worth $ 1 billion or more (so - called unicorns) had at least one immigrant cofounder.

Cendy is one of millions of immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children — a group known as «DREAMers» by advocates of the Dream Act, a federal bill first introduced in the Senate in 2001 to allow them a pathway to permanent residency.

Lobby groups — representing Canadian businesses with relationships with Chinese communist state firms, as well as associations largely composed of recent immigrants from the PRC — predicted dire consequences for Canadian interests in China if our PM showed «disrespect» by not attending APEC in Beijing.

In 2005, I asked our Economics department to put a dollar figure on what it actually cost the Canadian economy when employers fail to realize the potential of immigrants as well as other under - utilized groups such as women and seniors.

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Such missteps are inexcusable for a country that now counts ethnic Chinese as its largest immigrant group and China as its fastest - growing trading partner.

As immigrants disproportionately increased the supply of workers in a particular skill group, the wage of black workers in that group fell, the employment rate declined, and the incarceration rate rose.

There are not in our homeland «many millions» of Muslims, as President Bush has mistakenly said, but, aside from African - American Muslims, there are about two million, and he is certainly right in saying that those who are here legally must be treated with the respect that we accord other immigrant groups.

Yes, it is a problem for those that don't assimilate into our society as we're told in school and media that immigrant groups are suppose to do.

It would be a mistake to see this as entirely inflicted on the immigrant groups by an alien American culture.17 Some form of it is what lured many to these shores in the first place.

The problem of inclusion and exclusion has been especially acute with respect to racial groups but it has also arisen in connection with the national, linguistic, and ethnic groups who have come as immigrants to these shores.

Of course, as such immigrant groups became acculturated their position with respect to such inter-group violence and control changed.

Later immigrant groups, for example the Italians, were characterized as criminal and often as seditious and further controls against them were instituted.

Pluralism was further realized as competitive interest groups and factions kept arriving with each immigrant cohort.

According to this final group, Christ had chosen America, especially its white immigrants, as a special rod of iron to scourge his wayward world and return it to the pristine purity of capitalist Eden.

Much of that surge was fueled by white evangelical and other white mainline Protestant religious groups who are more likely to see immigrants as a threat to American values than other groups, according to a 2015 PRRI study.

The coming of Christian immigrants from Persia did not seriously affect the social life of the Indian Christians, as the immigrants (except the Thomas of Cana group) intermarried with the Indians.

The tension between gospel and world was as strong in the immigrant church as in any native group, if not stronger.

Canada has a growing immigrant population, this will increase demand for products and packaging suited to these ethnic groups and will also increase the need for associated labeling such as multi-lingual labeling.

To date, it remains unclear whether the expectations of female clients are better met in birth centers than in hospital or home births and if the offered birth care connects to the needs of different social groups, such as non-Dutch women, including first, second and third generation immigrants [6, 8, 17].

The money will be awarded to the groups through the state's Office of New Americans and can be put toward immigrant defense services that would prevent deportation, green card application processing as well as job assistance.

The inherent diversity of any large immigrant population makes some degree of integration almost inevitable, as large and diverse groups can't maintain overall ethnic unity outside the mainstream of the host country's society.

[1] As it is not clear which groups the respondents mean when answering questions about immigration (see this report for a discussion of public perception of immigrants), I divide this category into three non-overlapping «immigrant» group: white foreign - born, non-white UK born and non-white foreign - born.

As we can see, the hypothesis that UKIP vote is driven by experience of change in the local area can be rejected — in fact Pearson correlations between UKIP vote and increases in the share of each immigrant group are negative.

Some decisions over the past twelve months like quitting international agreements, banning immigrants from specific religious - national groups and employing harsh rhetoric against allies are rightly regarded as diplomatic blows to the American image in the world.

The letters are a powerful expression of the inherent diversity of a sizeable group of immigrants as well as overarching patterns in their identities.

While Governor Cuomo is criticizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents for stepped up enforcement against undocumented immigrants, an immigrant rights group is calling him a hypocrite for keeping campaign contributions from a billionaire who's company is headquartered in the same Buffalo building as ICE.

The comfort factor requires a counter-factual belief that the pain of cuts can be borne wholly by out - groups such as immigrants, tattoo'd welfare claimants (but not pensioners) and bankers.

As reports of immigration raids and roundups have rocketed across Twitter, Facebook and texts around the country, undocumented immigrants, their lawyers and advocacy groups are bracing for the increased enforcement that Trump has called for.

But many have blamed Trump's success on pure prejudice, as he staked much of his candidacy on plans to build a wall on the Mexican border, deport undocumented immigrants and bar Muslims from entering the country — and attracted support from the Ku Klux Klan and other groups and figures associated with white nationalism.

As New York State budget talks reach their final days, and perhaps even hours, a group of Hispanic lawmakers is pushing for the inclusion of the Dream Act in the budget, It would offer college aid to children of undocumented immigrants who were born in the country.

The committee began its work in 2016 as an advisory group to facilitate better communications between our immigrant communities and Erie County government, and has helped our community to lead the way for the resettlement of thousands of refugees to WNY.

Immigrant organizing group Make the Road Action echoed Lipton's assertion that the New York State GOP is «is of the same ilk» as Donald Trump.

It was just two years ago that, as a prospective appointee to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, Kirsten Gillibrand essentially had to audition for liberal interest groups wary of her for her opposition to strict gun control and amnesty for illegal immigrants, the very positions that had made her so popular in her conservative House district upstate.

This group, which gets funding from the Council to provide various services to immigrants (literacy classes, «outreach» on rights, etc.), controversially makes its clients attend organizational and advocacy meetings as a condition of receiving services.

«This is of particular importance when the civil liberties of minority groups are threatened, as they are now by the repressive actions being taken by the Trump administration against LGBT people, women, religious and ethnic minorities, and immigrants.»

Ms. Agarwal was confident the groups being targeted by the program, such as undocumented immigrants and the homeless, could produce the necessary documents, saying the city conducted focus groups in creating its requirements.

Citizen Action was joined by union - backed groups like the Alliance for Quality Education and Strong Economy for All, as well as Make the Road New York, which has pushed for the Dream Act that would allow tuition assistance for illegal immigrants or their children.

Steve Choi, president of the New York Immigration Coalition, a prominent immigrant advocacy group that has hosted a number of actions in response to Trump's immigration policies such as the executive orders targeting people from Muslim - majority countries, said that as a state legislator, Schneiderman was an early supporter of driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

Zephyr Teachout, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's primary challenger last year, backed Mr. Najmi, as well as the Make the Road Action Fund, the campaign arm of the immigrant rights group Make the Road New York.

Liberal groups and voices have for years painted the IDC as a block against progressive priorities, including public campaign finance and extending college tuition subsidies to undocumented immigrants.

The rally was co-sponsored by members of the Let NY Vote coalition, which includes over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

We now have a pretty important data point that progressives are showing up at the polls as well,» said Daniel Altschuler, director of Make the Road Action, the political arm of the Long Island - based immigrant rights group.