Sentences with phrase «large immigrant populations»

While these are two notable examples, many other lenders — especially those in areas with large immigrant populations — provide mortgages to undocumented immigrants.

Educators from schools and districts with large immigrant populations have been the most likely to take some sort of position regarding the changes in immigration policy.

Some European countries with large immigrant populations — such as Switzerland and Lichtenstein — are more successful than the United States in educating immigrant students, particularly in the second generation.

Schools have employed several strategies to increase parental involvement in school, ranging from extensive promotion of events such as «back to school» nights, to school - based cultural events in areas with large immigrant populations.

Schneiderman warned the question could lead to an undercount in states like New York with large immigrant populations, thus hurting the state's representation in Washington and lessening the federal aid the state would be due.

The AG filed on behalf of 16 other state attorneys general, six cities and the US Conference of Mayors, who say the question would result in an undercount that would jeopardize federal funding for states with large immigrant populations.

There lies the concern for many states with large immigrant populations like New York.

Large urban areas have large immigrant populations spanning a range from very low income to very high income professionals and are vital to large urban economies.

Looking ahead: The Trump administration's decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census could hurt states with large immigrant populations — including Florida.

In the country that has the world's largest immigrant population, American presidential administrations have tried tightening security along the border for around a century.

Thankfully we still have a large immigrant population who still chase the American dream and work their butts off to become the doctors, inventors, and scientists we will need to continue to make this country (and, by extension, our world) a better place.

Due to the large immigrant population, some ethnic grocery stores sell 2 - liter bottles of kvass, but it is not the same as the stuff sold at street stands that I remember (that tasted more like something between beer and hard cider, and the bottled stuff tastes like... sweet, bready soda).

I live in an neighborhood with a large immigrant population.

The inherent diversity of any large immigrant population makes some degree of integration almost inevitable, as large and diverse groups can't maintain overall ethnic unity outside the mainstream of the host country's society.

In Manhattan on Sunday, Cuomo, a Democrat, spoke out against policies targeting immigrants, touting the state's large immigrant population and vowing to help protect their rights.

«New York State, as America's gateway to immigrants, and home to the nation's second - largest immigrant population, must reclaim a leadership role in protecting immigrants from the relentless and cruel attacks from the Trump administration.»

For his part, Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said he supports the bill both as the representative of a district with a large immigrant population and as someone who was an immigrant himself.

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.

But when the people who did it are found, they turn out to be neo-Nazis who targeted the neighborhood because of its large immigrant population.

Chicago, which has a large immigrant population from Morocco, has been involved with a Sister School in Casablanca, Morocco since 1982.

Florida enjoys a large immigrant population that fled from Cuba in the years following the establishment of Castro's communist regime.

But a Florida grand jury recently found that the state's formula that funds new school construction doesn't recognize the county's unique needs created by its large immigrant population.

We have a large immigrant population in my school.

Schools with the largest immigrant populations, in fact, have been among the hardest hit.

One of the widest enrollment disparities exists in Boston, even though the city boasts one of the largest immigrant populations in the state.

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.

For example, Miami has a large immigrant population.

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.

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.

Knowing another language is may be required in neighborhoods with a large immigrant population, for example.

The county also serves a large immigrant population of Hmong, Vietnamese, Mexican, Khmer, Somali, and Russian origins.

The counties in the Rio Grande Valley (Hidalgo / Willacy) have a large immigrant population from Mexico and Latin America, some of whom are undocumented, which presented a challenge in connecting those families to resources.

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That is, it is a benefit that doesn't affect a huge share of the immigrant population at large.

Second, the Chicago metro area has a large Hispanic immigrant population, making it easy for Mexican cartel operatives to blend in.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

Immigrants older than 25 are more likely to have college degrees or graduate / professional degrees than the rest of the population at large.

On the domestic political front, meanwhile, Canada is a country of immigrants with multiple large diaspora populations.

Chang eventually emigrated to the United States on a student visa and became a minister, co-founding a ministry for Korean immigrants at Wiltshire United Method Church in Los Angeles, home to the nation's largest Korean - American population.

Church attendance is decreasing, though, and a larger share of the population is made of recent immigrants and their children who have no history of center - right political activism.

Many immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere also stem from predominantly Christian countries outside of Europe, such as the Philippines, ancestral home to the second - largest Asian American population, and Ghana, one of sub-Saharan Africa's several rapidly Christianizing nations; Many also come from Christian sectors of such religiously mixed countries as Korea, Vietnam, India and Lebanon.

The Dakota Territory had absorbed a large wave of immigrant homesteaders, a population vulnerable to economic exploitation and political domination by the native born Americans who also flooded into the territory.

But the town enjoyed a large Catholic population, descendants of immigrants who had come in the 19th century to work in the mills, and they filled two large and thriving churches.

In a larger country with a smaller population, Canadian evangelicals are more likely to support sharing resources and welcoming immigrants and refugees; they are less likely to feel a sense of «manifest destiny» or to see their country as a Christian nation, according to Brian Stiller, the Ontario - based global ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance.

As immigrants and subsequent generations born in America become a larger segment of the population, they have worked hard to become part of the melting pot while also holding onto the aspects of their cultural heritage they hold dear.

Melinda's growth is being propelled in large part by four key factors: the increasing popularity of spicy foods; America's rapidly expanding population of Central, South American and Caribbean immigrants; the widely recognized health benefits of chile peppers; and the growing purchasing power of Millennials who are more apt to experiment with new spices and flavor profiles.

She noted both she and Ryan represent districts that cover the city of Buffalo with large immigrant and refugee populations.

«As of 2015, the five counties with the largest foreign - born populations (Los Angeles County, Calif.; Miami - Dade County, Fla.; Cook County, Ill.; Harris County, Texas and Queens County, N.Y) account for 19 % of the national immigrant population in the U.S.» Source (citizen and non-citizen alike).

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).

At one time home mostly to Italian and Jewish immigrants, the neighborhood now boasts a large West Indian population.