Sentences with phrase «immigrant services in»

The politicians invited the protestors back to the office next Thursday for a rally against cuts to immigrant services in Washington Heights and around the city.

She said she's had discussions with the staff of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver about cuts to immigrant services in the area.

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a Pro Bono Legal Network to expand immigrant services in New York.

Kings County Politics article on Mayor de Blasio taking executive action for immigrant services in New York City, quoting BP Adams.

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Enabling the working poor, many of them immigrants (hence the name Tio, which means «uncle» in Spanish), to pay their bills for a low fee and avoid late penalties or service interruptions was simply the right thing to do.

«Brexit seems like a step in the wrong direction in terms of integration,» noted Mehdi Jaffer, head of marketing at the London - based IT services startup AlphaSights, which employs around 300 workers — a large share of whom are immigrants.

ENJOINED AND RESTRAINED from, in any manner or by any means, removing individuals with refugee applications approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as part of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, holders of valid immigrant and non-immigrant visas, and other individuals from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen legally authorized to enter the United States.

«We're part of a community of companies that is helping [immigrant] customers understand the landscape of financial services» in the U.S., said Raul Vazquez, chief executive of Oportun.

After graduating from Florida State University with a Ph.D. in modern languages, «I saw a need to provide the ever - increasing immigrant population in Miami with quality language services,» Vega says.

«If you are an immigrant in Los Angeles, the safest place you can be on Monday is in the action in downtown Los Angeles,» said David Huerta, president of SEIU United Service Workers West.

Pari Karem, general manager of immigrant services at the YMCA in Kitchener, Ont., works directly with newcomer youth and women.

In our book, The Immigration Exodus, we documented a number of cases where smart immigrants with viable technology businesses were rebuffed by the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service.

This includes the $ 135 in fees the government makes when someone gets a U.S. passport, say, or the $ 340 filing fee it earns from immigrants who apply for a green card to become a permanent U.S. resident, among other products and services users pay for.

Lawyers attack phone system for immigrants By Ann M. Simmons Los Angeles Times A customer - service telephone system run by immigration authorities is frustrating and inefficient and in some cases has provided such bad advice that clients have been detained or deported, according to immigration lawyers pressing to have the service scrapped.

When immigrants first arrive in Canada, one of the most significant barriers they face is related to access to financial services.

Yet in the postwar years, far from cutting back, the government built infrastructure, welcomed immigrants and introduced many new social service programs.

In many North American cities, the United Way offers direct services for immigrants, or partners with those who do.

Today is an «Evangelical Day of Prayer and Action for Immigration Reform» in Washington, D.C., with many evangelical luminaries, and even more evangelical activists, hosting advocacy worship services and lobbying Congress for immigration legislation that would legalize the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the U.S..

One immigrant tells of how exhilaration «was soon replaced by anger and disbelief when he discovered that a local synagogue in Washington Heights denied him admission to its Yom Kippur services because he had not purchased a ticket, even though he explained that he had only recently been liberated from a concentration camp.

«I don't know if the reason for my anger is just my old fashioned Irish - American patriotism,» wrote the friend who sent us the link, «or the fact that I just spent a week with my father tripping and limping around with a bad leg he gave in the service of this nation, or because my mother is an immigrant and both my paternal grandparents were too, and as much as all of them loved Ireland they knew how much they owed this country and considered the precious value of their American citizenship only slightly behind that of their baptismal certificates.»

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

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In what could be considered a slap in the face to immigrants all over the country, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Office announced that it would be amending its mission statement to remove the phrase «nation of immigrants.&raquIn what could be considered a slap in the face to immigrants all over the country, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Office announced that it would be amending its mission statement to remove the phrase «nation of immigrants.&raquin the face to immigrants all over the country, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Office announced that it would be amending its mission statement to remove the phrase «nation of immigrants.»

He didn't express pride in being a low - services state, if also (and this is a good thing) a state excellent in «creating» jobs, especially for recent immigrants.

The United States welcomed its immigrants, protected its workers, freed the slaves, enfranchised women, aided the needy, provided social security for the aged, ensured the civil rights of all its citizens, and made public space accessible to the handicapped: all in service to its ideals of justice.

They've seen a drop in attendance as some immigrants stay home rather than risk getting arrested on the way to Sunday services.

This luxe and swanky resort and spa is known for cultivating romance, and offers plush beds with Italian sheets, in - room Kohler tubs, award - winning dining at four - star The Immigrant Restaurant and unbeatable spa services.

Partner agencies in the Elm City include All Our Kin, the New Haven Health Department, New Reach (formerly New Haven Home Recovery) and Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS), among many others.

She has had the opportunity to explore child birth from different perspectives by: developing and teaching Prenatal Yoga classes, caring for pregnant social high risk and new immigrant women at the Northeast Health Centre, and by working in Nunavut as a Maternal Newborn Health Services Consultant for the Government of Nunavut.

Such civic - minded uses for the buildings hearken back to the first field houses, built in the early 1900s under the direction of parks Supt. Frank J. Foster.Foster was inspired by Chicago's first settlement house — large buildings where immigrants could go for shelter and social services — when he ordered the construction of the first 10 field houses, which opened in 1905, said Park District historian Julia Bachrach.

For that reason, and because of the multitude of community projects that I have been responsible for, such as: construction of low - income housing; repair of train stations; re-pavement of streets; Implementation of charter schools; services for senior citizens, immigrants, non-medallion taxi car drivers, and many more initiatives, I believe that the residents of the 32nd Senatorial District in Bronx County have been well represented during the past 15 years,» he said.

Of course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provision.

Paladino advocated closing Medicaid and other public service programs to illlegal immigrants, saying thet can «go someplace else and try to get on those programs in some other state.»

Mark - Viverito, on the other hand, has been one of the most outspoken supporters of a proposal to grant municipal identification cards to immigrants in New York City, which would allow them to access a number of city services, regardless of their immigration status.

In response to «housing discrimination and attacks from Washington on immigrants,» NYS Senator Jose Peralta and CUNY School of Law's Community Legal Resources Network announced on May 10 the re-launching of free legal assistance services for immigran More...

It is also one of the major reasons why immigrants are deported, how families get torn apart by child welfare services, and why former convicts get trapped in the parole system, he added.

In 2010, the Ghana Immigration Service reported that there was a large number of economic migrants and Illegal immigrants inhabiting Ghana 14.6 % (or 3.1 million) of Ghana's 2010 population (predominantly Nigerians, Burkinabe citizens, Togolese citizens, and Malian citizens).

Adriano Espaillat, in endorsing Mr. Rodriguez, grieved the loss of Mr. Linares» services to the immigrant community, urging him to remain at his post where he is needed.

Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.

Mark - Viverito and Queens Councilman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, requested the funding for immigrant legal defense services in the response they released earlier this month.

Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc.'s (CPC's) mission is to serve the Chinese American, immigrant and low - income communities in New York City by providing services, skills and resources towards economic self - sufficiency.

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When immigrant communities are undercounted, we lose out significantly on federal funding for our schools, roads, health care services, housing and as we did in the 2010 Census, we lose elected representation in congress.

Jenny serves as the Board Chair of the Chinese - American Planning Council (CPC) whose mission is to serve the Chinese - American, immigrant and low - income communities in New York City by providing services, skills and resources towards economic self - sufficiency.

Cuomo, in announcing the budget agreement on Friday night, praised the IDC for its work on getting a raise - the - age bill passed and for helping secure $ 10 million for immigrant legal services.

The Osun State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, has apprehended some illegal immigrants in the State.

The latest immigration bill, which was sponsored in February by Majority Leader Catherine Borgia, an Ossining Democrat, came in response to Republican President Donald Trump's nationwide initiative to deport undocumented immigrants, and would have prevented the county's emergency services from aiding the federal government in investigations made on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity and national origin.

Agencies under the UJA - Federation umbrella have lost a total of $ 6 million due to Paterson's veto of legislative earmarks known as member - item grants, the latest in eight cycles of budget cuts that have rocked the non-sectarian network of special education, child care, mental health, immigrant and other services, lowering revenue by 5 to 7 percent, said Soloway.

He said the immigrants were in custody undergoing interrogation and will be handed over to the Nigeria Immigration Service for further action.

The differences between immigrants and non-immigrants with respect to medical services seem to be a result of differences in access and social attitudes toward medical use.