Sentences with phrase «many poor immigrants»

In reality, the marchers were celebrating the right and duty of the native French to insult the religion of poor immigrants.

As I go to court with poor immigrants, visit their children in schools and translate for them in job interviews, I am always stmck by how much social capital I have by simply being able to speak English well and to work as a professional in the community.

He wonders about the sharp, derogatory words in Dylan's mid-1960s song «I Pity the Poor Immigrant.»

Someone like me gets cheap housekeeping and take - out delivery, while poor immigrants get paying jobs.

A day earlier, Cuomo addressed a group of union workers and said he was «raised by poor immigrants from South Jamaica,» a neighborhood in Queens, New York.

I say to them, start with me, Andrew Cuomo, the grandson of Andrea and Immacolata Cuomo, Italian poor immigrants,» he tells a roomful of people who are mostly immigrants.

If Labour need to make a break from New Labour then get rid of Blair because it stinks of his control within Labour at the moment, saying immigration is a Tory problem would make the public laugh out loud, saying we did make some mistakes, to try and get UKIP voters back, will not work, you tried to change the voting pattern by bringing in poor immigrants who did not end up voting.

The idea is to provide a way to help poor immigrant families afford college.

The spot will focus on the Gristedes CEO's upbringing as a poor immigrant and will contain other biographical information to help him connect with outer - borough voters.

The notion that Cuomo «came from» a middle class background is particularly confusing, given that he made this claim a few days after he said he was raised by poor immigrants.

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

East London is home to many poor immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh, and their community suffers high rates of illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes.

Downtown churches were suddenly filled by poor immigrants from Catholic nations (Latin America and the Caribbean) without a tradition of Catholic schools, much less a habit of paying for them.

Wanting to see for himself, Mike visits his local elementary school in Takoma Park, Maryland, where «the children of übereducated whites» are in the same classrooms as poor blacks, black middle - class families» and «poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.»

Piney Branch Elementary serves an incredibly diverse group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, from the children of übereducated white and black middle - class families, to poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, to low - income African American kids.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, a former school teacher of poor immigrants on the outskirts of the American Dream, recognized the awesome power of the federal government to ensure that all students, regardless of socioeconomic status, receive a quality education.

In 2001, he became founding principal of Bronx International High School, a dare - you - to - beat - the - odds school for poor immigrant students, which went on to receive some of the best scores among peer institutions in the city.

The year is 1924, and the remote mines of Appalachia have filled with families like Emma's, poor immigrant laborers building new lives half a world away from the island of Sicily.

Zachary Lazar, author of I Pity the Poor Immigrant

Through short, diary - like chapters she brings us up close and personal with her life and the very real problems of being a poor immigrant living in an effective ghetto, surrounded by poverty, bigotry, racism and misogyny - so we can get some sense of how overwhelming it is to survive in such an environment, let alone to dream of finding a better life.

For this series he worked on the Lower Eastside of New York in a building that for almost two centuries had been a stopping point for poor immigrants.

I would have expected them to have noticed that the fertility rate is rising in America purely among the poor immigrant population, who hail largely from Latin America, have been in the country about 5 minutes and are largely poor.

A pinch of sea level rise, a dash of increased storms (the real thing, not the phoney Xtreme Weather being peddled today) and millions of poor immigrants from the farms and you have a recipe for large scale loss of life and economic hardship for the survivors for decades.

«Several poor immigrants lost their life savings even though the government could not prove that they, or their money, had any connection to drugs.»

Not exact matches

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.

«I grew up very poor with a single mom as Latino immigrants, and saw how hard my mom worked to make healthy choices.

But I believe that newer immigrants from poorer countries are hardworking and not afraid of doing jobs that people here don't want to do.

Called Baba Chinese, they believed in English education, could afford servants, and enjoyed a higher social standing than the poor, often illiterate, recently arrived Chinese immigrants who worked around the city's riverfront docks as lightermen, rickshaw pullers and stevedores.

Because many of these immigrants — especially those who are here illegally — are poor or underemployed, the area provides a fertile recruiting ground for cartel operatives.

I grew up some what poor until the age of 12, my parents where European immigrants that came to Canada with not a penny to their name and worked hard.

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.

Okay, maybe Failing POTUS will pull a Putin and finger some immigrant «bad hombre» who washes dishes in the White House as the source and prosecute the poor soul.

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.

If Jesus were here today, a typical news by Fox report would be, «Jesus is preaching Socialism to the black, asians, immigrants, prisoners and the poor.

98 % of nuns and sisters do wonderful work with the poor, the homeless, the immigrant and broken - heart.

But gaps in the justice and compassion of a society require government intervention to secure the common good, which is not common until it includes the poor, the immigrant, the sick, the disabled, the unborn.

In this last connection, and again with an eye toward immigrants and the poor, the GOP would be wise to strengthen its reputation as the party of community and order.

And far many more benefited as the Church aided the poor, treated the sick and helped assimilate wave uponwave of immigrants... Neighborhoods were anchored by parish churches, and by parochial schools that still serve as models of education.»

But the Bible bears witness to another God, a God who hears the cries of the poor and defends the orphans, widows and immigrants.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

What if we modeled the marriages, the families, care for the poor, and the treatment of the immigrant and the oppressed in a manner that demonstrates the heart of God as early Christians did?

As poor and desolate as they were, these immigrants were able to ignite, not decimate, the economies of their adopted homes and build whole new industries and centers of trade that had not existed and may never have existed had the refugees never arrived.

A Christian can not choose not to speak on behalf of the poor, the immigrants, the elderly, the disabled, and the family.

Our task now is to support the good in Mr. Trump's policies and to resist the bad — and thereby prove to our countrymen that the meaning of «pro-life» begins with the unborn child, but in embracing the poor, the elderly and the immigrant, it never ends there.

The poor, immigrant communities that had reshaped the American population now helped reconfigure American letters.

Perceiving a stark and growing contrast between respectable middle - class families and the «teeming broods» of new immigrants in the urban centers, progressive leaders turned to eugenic science to control what seemed the otherwise uncontrollable plight of the poor.

What many of the immigrants hoped for, as Hannah Arendt has pointed out, is not «to each according to his ability,» nor even «to each according to his need» but that old dream of the poor, «to each according to his desire.»

Or his statements in Matthew 25 about what a Christian would do in regards to the poor, the immigrants, the sick and those in prison and how that would affect their behavior as a President.

«I hope that we can decrease and eliminate abortion, embrace the immigrant and orphans, end the death penalty in the U.S. and see poor people cared for,» Claiborne says.

Would they act like a Christian as Jesus stated or as a Capitalist and reject all of Jesus teaching regarding wealth and the treatment of the poor, the sick the disabled, immigrants and those in prison.