Sentences with phrase «include immigrant children»

The primary purpose of Title III is to «help ensure that children who are limited English proficient, including immigrant children and youth, attain English proficiency, develop high levels of academic attainment in English, and meet the same challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards as all children are expected to meet» (Title III, Part A, Sec. 3102).

Title III grants are awarded to schools with programs designed to ensure children who are limited English proficient, including immigrant children, meet the same challenging academic content standards all other children are expected to meet.

It also serves the purpose of assisting teachers, LEAs, SEAs, administration and other educational staff «develop and enhance their capacity to provide effective instructional programs designed to prepare English learners, including immigrant children and youth, to enter all - English instructional settings» and to encourage parent and community engagement in the ELL community.

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After two years, if the immigrant entrepreneur can create five or more jobs (hiring his or her children or spouse is not included), attract an additional $ 1 million in investment, or produce $ 1 million in revenue, he or she can become a legal resident.

President Donald Trump is expected to announce Tuesday the end of an Obama - era program that protects children of undocumented immigrants from deportation, but he may include a six - month delay, according to The New York Times.

In fact, seven of the 10 most valuable brands in the world come from American companies founded by immigrants or their children, including Apple, Google, AT&T, GE, IBM and McDonald's.

First - generation immigrants or their children had founder roles in more than 40 % of the Fortune 500, including such marquee companies as AT&T (No. 11), Procter & Gamble (No. 31), Goldman Sachs (No. 74), Pfizer (No. 51), eBay (No. 180), Google (No. 46), Intel (No. 53), Kraft (No. 156), Cigna (No. 97), and Kohl's (No. 151).

«Locking up immigrants, including families and children fleeing extreme violence in Central America, should not be a source of profit for huge corporations, particularly given private contractors» terrible record providing inadequate medical and mental health care to dying immigrants,» the statement said.

For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

Locking up immigrants, including families and children fleeing extreme violence in Central America, should not be a source of profit for huge corporations, particularly given private contractors» terrible record providing inadequate medical and mental health care to dying immigrants.

So I hope that as he flies home on September 27, the Holy Father will understand that American Catholics share every ounce of his passion for Christian service and human dignity — beginning with the unborn child, but not ending there; including the poor and the immigrant, but reaching from conception to natural death... and confirming that the «joy of the Gospel» comes from a Gospel of Life.

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights calculates that, over the past five years, 65,000 to 90,000 Midwest children lost a parent to deportation, based on about 50,000 deported immigrants in the ICE Chicago district, which includes Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Missouri and Kansas.

Their agenda includes electoral reforms like early voting, a strengthening of the state abortion laws, creation of a single - payer health care system, criminal justice changes like an end to cash bail, passage of the Child Victims Act, enactment of pro-immigration measures like creation of a state DREAM Act and the issuance of drivers» licenses to undocumented immigrants.

The GOP has blocked passage of bills including the Dream Act, to help children of undocumented immigrants get college aid, a measure to codify the abortion rights in Roe v. Wade into state law, and campaign finance reform.

The budget also includes an Education Tax Credit which would provide a large credit for donations to schools and the Dream Act which would provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children.

The Dream Act — which provides state tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants — wasn't included following a public back and forth with Latino members of the Legislature.

A number of other items that Cuomo initially tied to passage of the budget also were dropped, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, and an education tax credit sought by the Catholic Church, among others.

There's been talk of a package of bills that would include pay raises for lawmakers as well as a minimum wage increase, and perhaps a plan for more charter schools or even other unrelated issues like the Dream Act, which would give college aid to children of immigrants.

Cuomo, in exchange for an endorsement from the left leaning Working Families Party, promised to help reunite the two Democratic factions in order to achieve passage of several progressive issues, including public campaign financing, a women's equality act with an abortion rights provision, and a measure to give college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, known as the Dream Act.

But while Cuomo was able to get several Republican Senators to vote to enact same sex marriage in 2011, he could not get them to budge on several issues that the Democratic left was pushing for, including, further increasing the minimum wage, allowing children of undocumented immigrants college aid known as the Dream Act, and public financing of political campaigns.

There are a number of nonspending items tied to the budget, including the Child Victims Act, to give victims of childhood sexual abuse greater access to the courts, and the Dream Act, which would qualify children of undocumented immigrants for college aid.

A number of other items that Governor Andrew Cuomo initially tied to passage of the budget also were dropped, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, and an education tax credit sought by the Catholic Church, among others.

Total population tallies include non-voting residents, such as immigrants residing in the country without legal permission, prisoners, and children.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's Park Slope home was the destination for immigration activists Tuesday night; they marched through Brooklyn to protest the senator voting in favor a short - term federal funding bill Monday that did not include protection for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children.

He also accused the Democrats «of holding our military hostage» over their demand that a short - term spending bill include protection for illegal immigrants brought to the country as children.

What can be done to make the legislation fair; should judges consider community support; will securing boarders trump the path to citizenship; can legislation include equal protection for LGBT immigrants; do citizen children need both parents?

The budget will not include a number of items that Governor Cuomo had desired, including a minimum wage increase, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid for children of immigrants who came into the country illegally, and an education tax credit sought by, among others, the Catholic Church.

That means many of the same issues that were gridlocked in the legislature in the past are likely to remain so, including the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, abortion rights measures, and ending the incarceration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds in adult prisons.

The GOP has blocked passage of bills including the Dream Act, to help children of undocumented immigrants get college aid, a measure to codify the abortion rights in Roe v. Wade into state law, as well as campaign finance reform.

Several items that Cuomo had tied to the budget are not currently in the spending plan, including bail reform, the Child Victims Act for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and the Dream Act to provide college aid for children of undocumented immigrants.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo put a number of progressive issues into his state budget proposal, including early voting measures, reforming the criminal justice system to end cash bail and the Dream Act to give college aid to the children of undocumented immigrants.

The children, who come from countries including Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, typically are eligible for either special immigrant juvenile status or asylum due to the dangerous and often violent situations they are fleeing from in their home countries.

That means many of the same issues that were gridlocked in the legislature in the past are likely to remain so, including, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, abortion rights measures, and ending the incarceration of 16 and 17 year olds in adult prisons.

They included public campaign financing, an abortion rights provision, and tuition for children of undocumented immigrants, known as the Dream Act.

What is left for the legislature to address is a number of items that Gov. Andrew Cuomo initially tied to passage of the budget but were dropped, including raising the minimum wage; the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to children of undocumented immigrants; and an education tax credit sought by the Catholic Church, among others.

Such legislation includes a bill to make it easier for child sex abuse victims to seek justice as adults, creation of a state DREAM Act to provide state tuition assistance to the college kids of undocumented immigrants and measures to strengthen the state's abortion laws, the Cuomo aide said.

Senator DeFrancisco says many New Yorkers may not agree with proposals pushed by the Democrats, including public campaign financing, and providing college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, known as the Dream Act.

But even with the funding, critics, including mainline Senate Democrats, say the IDC has not delivered on the creation of a state DREAM Act that would give the children of undocumented immigrants access to state tuition assistance programs.

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.

Queens residents will be able to meet one - on - one with MOIA representatives between 10:00 AM — 6:00 PM on those days and confidentially discuss their immigration - related issues, including possible enforcement actions and the planned termination of DACA, a federal initiative that has protected 800,000 undocumented immigrants nationwide from deportation who were brought to the United States as children.

Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo put a number of progressive issues into his state budget proposal, including the Dream Act, to give college aid to the children of undocumented immigrants, early voting measures and reforming the criminal justice system to end cash bail.

According to Scarpino, the issues that he plans to address in his new role include Westchester's heroin and illegal drug epidemic — a situation he described as «a scourge that is destroying our youth» — as well as Internet predators, phone scams, child and elder abuse, domestic violence, and injustices against immigrants who he believes are preyed upon by people who take advantage of their fear of deportation.

«We [have] heard countless stories of New Yorkers empowered through the program, including teenagers who did not previously have access to ID, immigrant mothers who can now enter school buildings and participate in their child's school with confidence, and transgender individuals who can self - designate their gender for the first - time,» said Nisha Agarwal, Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrantimmigrant mothers who can now enter school buildings and participate in their child's school with confidence, and transgender individuals who can self - designate their gender for the first - time,» said Nisha Agarwal, Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of ImmigrantImmigrant Affairs.

One of the issues that led to the shutdown was Democrats insistence that Republicans include a path to legal status for hundreds of thousands of immigrant youth brought to the country as children in the spending bill.

Obama has threatened to veto the bill because it would block spending on his executive actions on immigration, including an order to stop deporting illegal immigrants brought into the United States as young children.

She says the Democrats are also racially, ethnically, and geographically diverse.And she says most New Yorkers want many measures that the current leadership of Republicans and break away Democrats have been unable to pass, including a higher minimum wage and college aid for children of undocumented immigrants.

Governor Cuomo is seeking a number of progressive items, and Skelos ruled out agreeing to several of them, including public campaign financing, and college aid to children of illegal immigrants.

The use of age - determination tests is currently at issue both in the UK — where the UK Border Agency is contemplating a trial of the wrist technique — and in Australia, following incidents including a 2010 scandal in which three Indonesian child immigrants were illegally jailed as «adults» after wrist X-ray tests.

But in the House, some Democrats are unhappy that the pact does not include protections for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, and some conservative Republicans oppose the additional spending.

«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.