Sentences with phrase «more young immigrants»

I'd help more young immigrants stay in college.

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The model immigrant is now younger and more fluent, but her CV may be a little shorter.

The new judging criteria for the federal skilled worker program will award more points to younger immigrants and changes the way the government looks at work experience and education.

Combined with women, he said assisting more young people, Indigenous peoples, recent immigrants and Canadians living with disabilities to enter the job market could help the labour force expand by half a million people.

«We spend more than virtually any other country on public investments and job training and skills development, and yet we have unacceptably high levels of unemployment amongst young Canadians, aboriginal Canadians, new immigrants, and persons with disabilities,» he said.

This style of living emerged in the mid-nineteenth century and offered men who were dislocated from family — usually immigrants or young workmen looking for opportunities in a new city — a supportive environment with more than just a room and bed.

Like many urban young people today, they had to endure that scandal, and to make life even more difficult, Joseph and Mary were forced to flee their hometown with their son to a neighboring nation as immigrants to escape persecution and genocide.

Thus the dream of today's young American man, reared in the religion of the gridiron, is not very different from that of the young Roman legionnaire or the young medieval crusader or, more important, of the young European immigrant to the new world, his own ancestor.

Even if some of those issues (like the welfare waiver controversy) are more complicated than Republicans make them out to be, and even if some of the president's actions (like stopping the deportation of young illegal immigrants) are desirable, the ever - increasing power of the executive branch is unsettling.

Our one - of - a-kind energy is what has been attracting innovators, freedom riders, and immigrants from every other place on Earth, what has more than 2.6 million people waking up here every day, what has young scholars selecting our schools, and what has the public and private sectors investing billions of dollars here.

The second bill is likely to be much more narrow that the Goodlatte bill, which addresses a several legal immigration policies in addition to providing for a renewal process for young undocumented immigrants who have temporary relief from deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Congress is careening toward the first shutdown in more than four years, with Republicans and Democrats at a seemingly intractable impasse over government funding and the fates of young immigrants facing deportation.

In a speech to Republican lawmakers, Trump turned up the pressure on Democrats to come to an agreement with Republicans on protections for young, undocumented immigrants, asserting that opposition leaders «talk a good game» but care more about politics than actually resolving the matter.

More than 900 young immigrants applying for a renewal of temporary work permits had their applications rejected because of mail problems, a number far greater than immigration lawyers had thought earlier this month.

The groups noted that for more than 20 years, broken windows enforcement — which targets smaller crimes to stave off larger ones — has disproportionately affected the poor and homeless and minorities, street vendors, subway performers, young people and LGBTQ and immigrant New Yorkers.

Washington (CNN)-- Supporters of the Senate immigration bill's path to citizenship are blasting comments Iowa Rep. Steve King made last week where he said that for every young undocumented immigrant who is a school valedictorian, 100 more are «hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.»

More than 41,000 young immigrants — known as «dreamers» — have applied for permission to stay in New York state through the program.

Immigrants expressed fear that more than 800,000 young people who were brought to the United States as children would face deportation if DACA is cancelled.

The Trump administration on Tuesday officially announced the end of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Obama - era program that helped more than 800,000 young immigrants who entered the country illegally as children avoid deportation.

Expect to Hear More About: Young Kim's story: A first - generation Korean American immigrant, Kim has raised nearly a half - million dollars from her network of supporters in Orange County.

Jews whose great - grandparents were chased from their Russian shtetls; Chinese whose grandparents lived through the ravages of the Cultural Revolution; young immigrants from Africa whose parents survived massacres; adults of every ethnicity who grew up with alcoholic or abusive parents — all carry with them more than just memories.

There were many young and more beautiful ladies who had entered the contest, but Charming Charlie picked me, an over 40s immigrant woman.

December 22, 2014 • More than 22,000 young immigrants are now eligible to apply for a license in Arizona, something they were blocked from doing in 2012, thanks to an executive order by Gov. Jan Brewer.

Brooklyn, adapted by Nick Hornby from the Colm Tóibín novel concerns a young Irish immigrant in New York named Eilis Lacey, who finds that when her old life comes a-calling, there's more to like about her new life than she may have first ex... more

Brooklyn, adapted by Nick Hornby from the Colm Tóibín novel concerns a young Irish immigrant in New York named Eilis Lacey, who finds that when her old life comes a-calling, there's more to like about her new life than she may have first ex...

2 years in, Dreamers still waiting for reform The Arizona Daily Star, 7/3/14 The program has allowed young immigrants to more meaningfully participate in their communities and contribute to the U.S. economy, said [Assistant Professor] Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and one of the authors of the study.

According to Prensky, one of the more radical consequences of this technology - rich environment is a hypothesized change in the brain structure that means young people think, use and process information [2] in different ways compared to older generations, the digital immigrants.

The program has allowed young immigrants to more meaningfully participate in their communities and contribute to the U.S. economy, said Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and one of the authors of the study.

In our region — Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Washington — young people between the ages of 13 and 17 are more than twice as likely to be foreign - born immigrants than children from birth to the age of 12.

More recent examples include proposed changes to DACA (the Obama - era executive order that protects younger immigrants without citizenship from being deported), Title IX (which governs the treatment of sexual assault on campuses), and federal education spending.

In our region — Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Washington — young people between the ages of 13 and 17 are more than twice as likely to be foreign - born immigrants...

We work with undocumented young folks and have started our own list of more diverse Common Core books and want to bring immigrant parents to bilingual workshops about what common core means.

Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder - a first - generation East German immigrant - adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.

Eve soon discovers a dramatically more tragic subculture, where destitute young Asian immigrants live in virtual sexual slavery.

The protagonist, young Vladimir Girshkin, is a Russian immigrant ne'er - do - well with an uncanny ability to get himself into trouble... yet with an even more uncanny ability to stay just barely afloat in the most dire situations!

Greater emphasis on younger immigrants who can gain more Canadian experience and stay in the workforce longer

But when it comes to young men, we tend to label groups of them — particularly those from immigrant backgrounds, often those deeply affected by poverty and lack of opportunity — as something possibly a bit more sinister.

They have a better child care system, more vacation and more free time; they also have a higher rate of unionization, higher unemployment rate (it's particularly dismal for young workers), lower productivity, and a growing discord between the (largely immigrant) poor and the rest of the country.

TOWARD MORE EQUITABLE EARLY CHILDHOOD SYSTEMS FOR IMMIGRANT FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN PowerPoint Presentation

Respondents who have a second child are also more likely to have had their first child at a younger age, to have been partnered at the time of the first child, to have been immigrants, and to have lived in West Germany than in East Germany.

The combination of younger average age, more likely immigrant status, and higher home prices may have contributed to the urban respondents» stronger expressed financial reliance on their family to buy a home.

Not only are the survey's urban respondents younger, they are also more likely to self - identify as new immigrants.

Thanks to strong demand from young, minority, and immigrant households — groups that helped boost first - time buyers to more than 40 percent of sales last year — the housing market was robust even as the broader economy remained sluggish.