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Americans for Immigrant Justice Non-profit law firm that champions the rights of unaccompanied immigrant children; advocates for survivors of trafficking and domestic violence; serves as a watchdog on immigration detention practices and policies; and speaks for immigrant groups who have particular and compelling claims to justice.

Is the route through the «race politics» travelled by aggrieved victims of oppression, or through the more travelled and more successful route of immigrant groups who aspired to «making it in America»?

Not exact matches

Hassan Khosrowshahi was honoured with the Order of Canada in June, which doubtlessly meant something to an immigrant who fled Iran in 1980 after his family's Minoo Group was nationalized by the revolutionary government.

Canada is a nation of immigrants, and a new report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) suggests that there are plenty of workers in other countries who would like to join in.

In Washington state, a group of plaintiffs applying for immigrant visas asked U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle — who suspended the first ban — to stop the new order.

After the rallies, immigrant rights groups will join LGBTQ, African - American and women's organizations this summer to push for the election of new leaders, Salas said, adding that they hope to see more support from Americans who aren't immigrants.

Immigrant groups acknowledged there is some fear among people in the country illegally who are skittish about drawing attention to themselves in visible marches.

But since Trump took office, his and Session's focus seems to be less on transnational criminal groups like Mexican drug cartels and more on criminal groups active in the US — specifically MS - 13, formed in the US in the 1980s by Central American immigrants who were deported to their home countries in the 1990s, where the gang expanded rapidly.

She said she doesn't want any groups of students or young workers unintentionally left behind by whatever changes the Liberals ultimately decide upon, but suggested that future changes would look to target vulnerable populations like indigenous youth and new immigrants, who have a harder time accessing the job market.

In tough language, the letter contends that such a policy undermines the entire life sciences community and sends a devastating message to immigrants who would otherwise bring their talents to the United States, and was signed by some heavy hitters, including Alnylam CEO John Maraganore and Ron Cohen, the chairman of biotech's biggest trade group and lobbying arm.

About one - fourth of the engineering and technology companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one key founder who was an immigrant, according to the Kauffman Foundation, a research group that advocates for entrepreneurial policy.

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.

Last month, Ms. Powell Jobs and Mr. Guggenheim traveled to Washington with several young immigrants and their families who were featured in the film; the purpose of the trip was to screen the documentary for a group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

(Reuters)- A Muslim civil liberties group said on Wednesday it wants a review of the death of a Chechen immigrant linked to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Florida.

The second - generation Chinese and immigrants who have recently established themselves in Canada form the main group that is feeding this... Continuar a Ler >

Figure 2 groups immigrants into three periods: the «Great Wave» of immigrants who came before 1930 (32 million), the «Small Wave» who entered during the period of limited immigration from 1930 to 1975 (9 million), and the «New Wave» who entered after 1975 (34 million).

Immigrants: The Mission Asset Fund, a nonprofit organization, can help foreigners who are part of lending circles, an informal group that pool funds for lending and borrowing among participants.

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.

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.

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 isolationist party, best known by the name of America First, was in fact a jumble of people with a whole variety of agendas: there were those who believed that the United States should have no truck with Europe and its wars, there were socialists who found nothing to choose among the imperialists on both sides, and there were those who believed that Germany's was not necessarily the wrong side to be on, this latter group itself being a kind of odd amalgam of Anglophobes, anti-Semites who said that the war against Hitler was merely a Jewish war, and immigrant German patriots.

Then the group found Janet McIntyre, a 20th - century immigrant rights advocate who provided the loan.

A small group of Sikhs who were putting down roots in the north and west suburbs of Chicago in the late 1960s and early 1970s — mostly Indian immigrants — formed a community, meeting at first in one another's homes.

But their distinctive experience among the groups who came to the US in this period speaks to today's debates about immigration — and especially to the ways immigrants integrate into new societies.

Spotlights on stage were given to groups Trump has demonized: people with disabilities, undocumented immigrants, mothers of children lost to gun violence, and a «Gold Star» Muslim - American family that publicly challenged Trump to a contest of who better represents American values.

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.

First off, Andrew Cuomo, is making promises to Hispanic groups who are breaking the law, they are pressuring politicians to protect illegal immigrants and that is criminal.

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.

They want to know you are capable of working for them and it's clear the IDC isn't working for voters — they are working in advancement of their own cause while empowering a group of Republicans who are hostile to immigrants, LGBT causes, transparency, campaign finance reform and voter access.

State leaders and advocacy groups have accused the board of making decisions that favor private school students at the expense of public school children, many of whom are low - income, have disabilities or are immigrants who don't speak English.

A group of angry illegal immigrants disrupted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's press conference today and chanted that Democrats are a «deportation machine» that must help push for legal protections for 11 million people who are now living illegally in the country.

A group of Democratic women in U.S. Senate are calling for the body to pass legislation to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children, also known as Dreamers, before the December break.

The legislation would provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children, a group commonly referred to as dreamers.

Make the Road New York, an immigrant rights group that has focused on the Dream Act, released a statement from Claritza Suarez, a Long Island high school sophomore who hopes to receive funds from the state to attend college.

The Judson Church demonstration, organized by the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), convened immigrants, advocacy groups and clergy members, who urged the Supreme Court to proceed with the DACA / DAPA case and help eliminate the fear of deportation for millions of people.

The son of an immigrant fieldworker who went on to become the youngest mayor of Santa Maria, Maldonado has long been considered the Republicans» best chance to reach out to the state's growing Latino population, which is projected to become the state's largest «race or ethnic group» in March.

The paper has always had great immigrant - group coverage, with reporters who speak the languages of many of New York's diverse ethnic communities.

Carlos Menchaca, an out gay freshman Council member from Brooklyn who is co-sponsoring the resolution, said using condoms as evidence in prostitution arrests targets marginalized groups like immigrants and LGBT youth.

Bianey Garcia, a transgender activist with Make the Road, a social justice group out of neighboring Jackson Heights, said while this is the 13th known attack on trans women in Queens this year, «so many are not reported for fear of going to the police,» partly due to transphobia in official ranks and also to fear of exposure for those who are undocumented immigrants.

The bill was also denounced by Hector Lopez, the president of the Westchester Hispanic Law Enforcement Association, the county's largest law enforcement group representing Hispanic officers, and County Attorney Robert Meehan, who first raised concerns about the law establishing a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants living in the county.

ALBANY — Democrats who dominate the Assembly will pass a measure granting undocumented immigrants access to New York's tuition assistance programs, they said at a press conference, laying another priority for progressive groups on the doorstep of the State Senate.

«Our findings show that terrorism shifts public attitudes towards greater loyalty to the in - group, less concern with fairness, and greater prejudice against Muslims and immigrants, but it seems that this effect is stronger on those who are politically left - leaning than those who are right - leaning,» explain psychological scientists from the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of group, less concern with fairness, and greater prejudice against Muslims and immigrants, but it seems that this effect is stronger on those who are politically left - leaning than those who are right - leaning,» explain psychological scientists from the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Group Processes at the University of Kent.

They found three distinct groups: authoritarians, who fear other groups will threaten the traditional status quo in their country; people high in social dominance orientation, who compete for their group's dominance over immigrants; and collective narcissists, who believe the UK is so great it is entitled to privileged treatment but complain this «true importance and value» is not recognized by other countries.

The comparison group included 375 first - generation immigrant children of similar racial / ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic status who attended the same schools before the intervention was implemented.

I tried all my regular social groups, language classes, cultural classes, new immigrants» meeting groups, but I wasn't meeting men who were wild enough for me or even interested in a date.

An easy way to understand my point is to think of AA who have been in America for generations and recent African Immigrants...... there are a lot of similarities, but they are different groups as well.

I wonder if some chinese guy in china who is learning english has got some english immigrant girls in china to take part in their «english language» group.

The following nearly seven - minute VR film depicts a journey through the desert by a group of immigrants, who are captured while trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States.

While it is important to be reminded that the United States is still seen as the land of opportunity by a gorgeously diverse group of people who, like the generations of immigrants before them, create the dream even as they live it, «Citizen U.S.A» is less a documentary than video album.

A natural companion piece to the director's 2011 immigrant tale, «Le Havre,» «The Other Side of Hope» follows a young Syrian refugee (Sherwan Haji) who finds himself in Helsinki, where he falls in with a group of Finnish restaurant workers whose misadventures have the relaxed, we're - all - in - this - together vibe of a Howard Hawks western.