Sentences with phrase «most immigrants went»

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Adopting a program of deporting the most current unauthorized immigrants isn't going to work.

Most immigrants - and especially those immigrants who do not have white skin - know in their hearts that this is how it goes.

Most of the cash, which goes towards assisting hundreds of nonprofit groups citywide, is earmarked for progressive causes like bilingual education services, legal services for immigrants and aid for gay, bisexual and transgender persons.

Her journey, a microcosm of the American Dream as seen through the life of an immigrant, is continuously and consistently heartbreaking, full of misunderstandings both cultural and linguistic, that all you want to do is hug her and tell her everything is going to be okay, even if her journey is the most foolish of errands.

And most of these schools are going to be located not where our immigrant community live,» said Lazos.

Anyone looking for more perspective on the Nigerian immigrant path should pick up Adichie's most recent novel, Americanah, which comes out in paperback next month — its heroine, Ifemelu, goes from cash - strapped immigrant student to an acclaimed academic.

The story of the original village of Kai Bae goes that although a few Thai fishermen lived around the island, most of the current population of the island are descended from immigrants who came to Koh Chang by boat from southern China.

For the past ten years the artist Tania Bruguera has been teaching and researching Arte Útil (it roughly translates into English as «useful art» but it goes further suggesting art as a tool or device) through an academy in Havana; the Arte Útil lab at Queens Museum, residencies at Immigrant Movement International, New York and most recently the Museum of Arte Útil, in the Old Building of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

Economic and technological factors may result in a wash; certainly, most unskilled immigrants are not going to become profligate consumers very rapidly.

Now, most of that goes back out in «services», but assuming a selective intake to favour more economically productive immigrants (ie ones that generate more in taxes than they consume in services), we could probably generate an additional $ 5,000 in government revenue from each new immigrant, or $ 5B for every 1 million.