Sentences with phrase «large immigrant community»

The Bahamas has a large immigrant community that adds diversity to its culinary offerings.

[23] Shepparton has a large immigrant community, with people from places such as India, Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq, Greece, Italy, Sudan, Macedonia, China as well as many other places.

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And immigrants are drawn to areas were there are already large numbers of their own community, which is what makes Toronto and other big cities so attractive.

ICE officials and Sessions had laid into Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for warning the local immigrant community about the impending raid, claiming that the tip - off helped lead to «864 criminal aliens and public safety threats» remaining at large.

In most American cities, the Buddhist community is not large, although it has grown with the influx of immigrants from Southeast Asia.

as an immigrant of color who has large numbers of undocumented economic refugees in her district she will be helpful to communities of color and immigrant, refugee communities esp.

«For immigrant communities, communities of color, and New Yorkers at large, a convention carries far more risks than potential benefits.

The case had potentially larger implications for New York City's undocumented immigrant community.

«With the largest Asian immigrant community living in Queens, this day celebrates the diversity of our borough and the contributions our communities have made throughout New York City.»

This budget sends a clear message that our immigrant communities matter and they don't have to live in fear thanks to our important initiative to protect immigrant communities with the largest funding for immigrant defense in the state's history,» Senator Marisol Alcantara (D - Manhattan).

Kelechian said she lives on Syracuse's North Side, a section of the city with large immigrant and refugee communities.

«In reality, many of these so - called service providers leave immigrant communities with nothing at all, while helping themselves to large fees.

Tenney, a longtime advocate for refugees who has ties to the large Bosnian refugee community in the Utica area, said she believes immigrants have helped make Central New York and the Mohawk Valley a better place.

The hearing drew a large audience outside of the usual good government advocates, including tenant and community preservation groups, immigrant advocacy organizations, NYCHA residents, current City Council candidates, and women's groups.

Menchaca, in an interview with Gay City News last month, emphasized that his work as a councilmember is focused on empowering a poor community with a large immigrant population, both Latino and Asian, that has long been neglected by the powers that be.

A Ciambra is intimate and documentary - like, approaching and then backing away from larger issues of marginalized and immigrant communities, showing rather than preaching, and most importantly, prioritizing Pio's adolescent face and the way his eyes scrutinize his surroundings as they constantly look for opportunity, weak spots to break through.

The links between undocumented status and present and future outcomes are irrefutably and overwhelmingly negative for immigrant families and the community at large.

He is little known outside the state but is liked by labor, particularly public employees, and, as the son of Taiwanese immigrants, has appeal to the state's large Asian communities.

*** Christine Rodriguez is a Youth Power Project member of Make the Road New York, the largest grassroots community organization in New York offering services and organizing the immigrant community, and a member of the Mayor's Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline.

What's more, the U.S. already has a large immigrant population, and history teaches us that strong public schools are a key avenue for all members of our communities to be able to attain higher levels of education and go on to work in well - compensated and satisfying jobs.

The town where she grew up has a large Irish immigrant community, and although Greta and Michael's story is in no way autobiographical, it is this community that inspired certain aspects of The Walking People.

But in Queens, where 165 different languages are spoken, Ms. Raicovich seems to be charting her own community - focused path, with an emphasis on making the museum a safe haven for the borough's large immigrant population.

New York City, where Guyanese immigrants are the 5th largest foreign - born population, is affectionately known as «Little Guyana» home to the most significant Guyanese community in the diaspora.

Lê was selected by juror, Marshall N. Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, for his series that «provides a framework for understanding how immigrant communities are part of the larger fabric of this country, yet can remain relatively invisible to the greater public.»

Indeed, federal research finds that human - induced climate change «will have the largest health impact on vulnerable populations including... some communities of color, limited English proficiency and immigrant groups, Indigenous peoples,» and others.

Carl Hernandez talks about the immigration clinic at Brigham Young University, which is managed mainly by students and meets a great need in the Utah community which has a large immigrant population.

Serving the Underserved: BYU's Immigration Clinic Carl Hernandez talks about the immigration clinic at Brigham Young University, which is managed mainly by students and meets a great need in the Utah community which has a large immigrant population.

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If criteria are not culturally sensitive, then a child who is reinforced to behave in X-manner by his or her immigrant parents, when X is viewed, within the larger cultural community as inappropriate or reflective of abnormality, all manner of difficulty may arise.

AAPI are projected to more than double their population by 2050, and China and India have replaced Mexico as the largest source of immigrants to the U.S. Because of this, many AAPI advocacy groups feel it's time to begin disaggregating AAPI data so policymakers, business leaders and academics have the information needed to understand the issues affecting this dynamic community.