Sentences with phrase «immigrant kids who»

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Since I was a kid, I've admired people who worked hard: Jack Lalanne, my dad, famous war leaders, the guy who delivered the legendary message to Garcia, the immigrants who build themselves up from nothing.

This is for everyone who stayed home from church yesterday — for every mom of a special needs kid, every survivor of sexual assault, every black or brown body in a predominantly white community, every son or daughter of an immigrant, every defender of the marginalized who just couldn't bring yourself to stand and sing «Great Is Thy Faithfulness» alongside the people you feel sold you out this week, the Christians who supported Donald Trump.

The ones who are serving their communities, teaching kids to read, taking meals to the elderly and sick, inviting immigrants to share their Thanksgiving table.

Cuomo ordered that an existing probe into housing discrimination against immigrants also look into landlords who won't rent to people with kids.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to give another break to immigrant Dreamers by extending free public college tuition to students who were brought into the United States illegally as kids.

Senate Republicans, while opposing the DREAM Act, which would allow taxpayer - funded state tuition assistance programs to be used on the colege kids of illegal immigrants, support the education tax credit that would provide a benefit for those who donate to private and public schools.

«Any immigrant who is a citizen of this state should be appalled by the DREAM Act,» Malliotakis told National Review in 2014, «because while they're taking out debt... and while they're working multiple jobs to put their kids through school, those who do not follow the rules are set to get a benefit that should be reserved for citizens.»

What a Forgotten Kids» Book Reveals About U.S. Publishing — Pooja Makhijani examines the poignant children's novel Gay Neck, which was written by an Indian immigrant who became the first person of color to win the Newbery Medal.

Amplifying his problems are his two kids, a part - time prostitute ex-wife who suffers from bipolar disorder, African immigrants, gay Chinese lovers who supply his bootleg goods and his touchy relationship with a crooked cop.

March 30, 2017 • Gary Cohn was a dyslexic kid from an immigrant family in Cleveland who rose to lead Goldman Sachs.

«A lot of caring is expanding the concern that kids have for their family and friends to other people who are outside that circle — the friendless kid on the playground, the immigrant at school, the bus driver, the school secretary,» [Senior Lecturer Richard] Weissbourd said.

«The prevailing theory, which I didn't believe, was that immigrant kids in the U.S. pick up oppositional attitudes from African American peers who are supposedly entrenched in an anti-school counterculture.»

Rosa Fernandez, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who graduated from New York City's Manhattan International High School, put it this way in The Schools We Need, a publication by and for high school students produced by the nonprofit organization What Kids Can Do: «Small schools are perfect for teenagers, because we need people to be warm and care about us, to be after us — otherwise, we might take the wrong road.»

Anyone who supports the rights of immigrants should speak up and demand that school districts do more to preserve the right of all kids to a full education in our public schools.

Still, even that little bit of «fame» was a lot for an anonymous immigrant kid from central Jersey who'd worked his way through school.