Sentences with phrase «new immigrants where»

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But, instead of taking to the streets to protest with anger, we got busy by composing several songs that culminated in the release of our new album Home: Where Everyone Is Welcome, which is inspired by immigrants.

But new research shows that the great wave of immigrants that arrived before 1920 permanently raised income levels and lowered poverty rates in the regions where they settled.

The first dinner kicks off Monday in New York City, where ROC and PAUWR hope to create a space for guests to discuss the reality immigrant workers face today.

When Jobe launched New Life Community Church 25 years ago, the Midway neighborhood where his main campus is located was primarily populated by descendants of Polish, Lithuanian and Italian immigrants.

The question is whether churches abroad, such as in the United States, Western Europe, and Australasia — comprised of Orthodox immigrants and converts long established in their new homelands, miles away and cultures apart from the «mother Churches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs in unity.

According to the lawsuit, filed in the San Francisco Superior Court, Spanish - speaking employees would go to places where they know immigrants would be, like construction sites and a 7 - Eleven, and would take them to a branch, have them open up a new account and would often pay the person $ 10 for opening the account.

Their ships buffeted by a tremendous storm at sea, the Trojan company has made it to shore on the coast of North Africa, where the new colony of Carthage is being founded by a group of immigrants from Tyre and their queen, Dido.

For Sachs, Bangladeshi workers are akin to the immigrants who once worked on New York's Lower East Side, «where their migration to toil in garment factories was a step on the path to a future of urban affluence in succeeding generations.»

In the 1880s Walter Rauschenbusch was a Baptist pastor in the Hell's Kitchen district of New York City, where he served a poor, hurting, immigrant congregation and where he converted to the social gospel.

«Senator Ball seems not to be aware that municipal IDs have been used for years in cities from New Haven, Connecticut, to San Francisco, California, where they have greatly improved cooperation between immigrant communities and law enforcement.»

«Major League Baseball's 2011 All - Star Game will be hosted in Arizona, where a harsh new immigration law requires police to detain anyone they «suspect» might be an undocumented immigrant unless they can prove their legal status on the spot.»

The bill, which would essentially make New York a sanctuary state for undocumented immigrants, faces little chance of passing in the Republican - controlled Senate, where Majority Leader John Flangan questioned the legality of proposal.

«Many immigrants who are already terrified of being deported and targeted under this administration, will simply choose not to participate, out of fear that the information they provide is being used to target them,» said Meng during a press conference at the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), where lawmakers and advocates warned that lack of immigrant participation would lead to inaccurate census data and could jeopardize New York's share of federal funding and Congressional seats.

Before being elected DA, Thompson served as a federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York, where he was a member of the team that successfully prosecuted former NYPD Officer Justin Volpe in the 1997 beating and torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.

The Council has funded attorneys for unaccompanied minor immigrants who have flooded New York City's federal courts, passed the municipal identification card program dubbed IDNYC, and has kicked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers off of Rikers Island, where they had frequently issued detainer orders for undocumented immigrants who had served time accused of nonviolent crimes.

City Hall has clashed repeatedly with the new administration over New York's «sanctuary city» laws, which bar the NYPD and the Department of Corrections from detaining and turning over people without paperwork to federal immigration authorities — except in cases where those immigrants have committed one of 173 violent offensnew administration over New York's «sanctuary city» laws, which bar the NYPD and the Department of Corrections from detaining and turning over people without paperwork to federal immigration authorities — except in cases where those immigrants have committed one of 173 violent offensNew York's «sanctuary city» laws, which bar the NYPD and the Department of Corrections from detaining and turning over people without paperwork to federal immigration authorities — except in cases where those immigrants have committed one of 173 violent offenses.

To help our new neighbors achieve their full promise, we created the New Americans Advisory Committee to more fully integrate our immigrant population into Erie County life; thereby strengthening the fabric of the communities where they resinew neighbors achieve their full promise, we created the New Americans Advisory Committee to more fully integrate our immigrant population into Erie County life; thereby strengthening the fabric of the communities where they resiNew Americans Advisory Committee to more fully integrate our immigrant population into Erie County life; thereby strengthening the fabric of the communities where they reside.

But it's one one example of where the governor can put his money where his mouth and make sure that he's investing in the future of New York and immigrants.»

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio launched the $ 7.9 million ActionNYC program, which will create community hubs across the five boroughs where immigrant New Yorkers can receive information and legal support and get help preparing applications.

The entrepreneur's death sent shock waves through the Caribbean community in New York, where he was seen as an immigrant success story, and in Jamaica.

The Bangladeshi immigrant accused of setting off a pipe bomb in the New York subway system had his first court appearance today via video from the hospital room where he is recovering from burns sustained in the blast.

The deadly shooting of two immigrants from India in Kansas, which is being investigated as a possible hate crime, has raised new alarms about a climate of hostility toward foreigners in the U.S., where Trump has made clamping down on immigration a central plank of his «America first» agenda.

«We commend the Governor for standing up against the Trump deportation machine to protect immigrant New Yorkers at state facilities, but we need to stop ICE where they frequently use their dragnet, thus chilling public safety for all,» Steven Choi, the executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, said in a statement.

MONTPELIER - Immigrants seeking asylum in Canada have been traveling in large numbers to an unmanned border crossing in Champlain, New York, where they are arrested by Canadian police for illegal entry, WCAX reported July 31.

«In New York, where would be without our immigrant communities?

«With President Trump's relentless attacks on immigrant communities, it is more important than ever before to make it clear that New York is a state which welcomes immigrants, and a state where immigrant families can succeed,» Moya said.

Quinn has ties to Inwood, where she said her Irish immigrant grandparents settled when they arrived in New York.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement on Thursday that he supported the legislation, which he called «thoughtful and progressive,» adding that it affirmed New York's status as «a city of immigrants, where dignity and an individual's right to due process will be protected.»

At a time when Italian immigrants faced discrimination, Il Progresso, an Italian language newspaper, raised funds to erect the marble artwork as a gift to New York City where Italians found opportunity.

«The last thing New York needs is a multimillionaire, Republican real estate executive from Westchester county who can't or won't say where he stands on stop - and - frisk, our schools, President Trump, or protecting immigrant families,» Dan Levitan, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign, said.

Once again Senator Klein and the IDC have put their votes where their mouths are and will fight for much needed increases in funding for legal services to protect our immigrant relatives, neighbors, friends and fellow New Yorkers and we proudly applaud and support these efforts!»

«But New York's ideals are ones of diversity: an immigrant city, welcome to everyone, where everyone gets a fair shot to do their best.

«By ending the collusion of local law enforcement and jails with federal immigration authorities, New York City will be a safe place where our immigrants no longer fear deportation by interacting with police.

The North Side neighborhood that once housed mostly German and Italian immigrants is now home to a new group of immigrants where 20 percent of families speak a language other than English at home, according to U.S. Census data.

«If we are seeing this amount of variation in Texas, imagine what we would see in a state where the population is newer and educators have less experience serving immigrants and English learners,» said Madeline Mavrogordato, assistant professor of K - 12 educational administration and lead author.

First, legal immigrants that do not have health insurance will be able to sign up for coverage through the new exchanges, online marketplaces where people can shop for a health plan.

He was led to hospital records at the New York Hospital where he pored through past case histories until he found something interesting: the case of a patient named Stein, a German immigrant who had been treated with surgery for a cancer very similar to Bessie's.

Minus a well - received excursion in the field of «adult» puppet shows (Greg the Bunny, 2002 and 2005), Sean Baker's work was centred on marginalised populations in the New York / New Jersey area (where he was born): disenfranchised suburban youth in Four Letter Words (2000), illegal Chinese immigrants (Take Out, 2004, co-directed with Shih - Ching Tsou) and African street hustlers (Prince of Broadway, 2008).

An immigrant magician in 1920s New York (Eddie Redmayne) doesn't heed the advice of a wizarding detective (Katherine Waterston) in «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.»

But those efforts can appear tiny in situations where students are immigrants whose parents moved them to a new country or come from low - income families and feel they have little power to confront multiple economic and social challenges.

Throughout Los Angeles and the surrounding county, where an estimated 40 percent of the nation's illegal immigrants live, only about 15,000 new students enrolled for this school year.

Prior to her work in the city, Kate worked with one of CPD's network members, Make the Road New York, where she helped to connect under and unemployed immigrant New Yorkers to quality training programs and sustainable jobs.

Manning teaches English to newly arrived immigrants and refugees at Joel E. Ferris High School, where she uses experiential projects like map - making to help her students process trauma, celebrate their home countries and culture, and learn about their new community.

For fans of Daniel Handler, David Sedaris or A.M. Homes, this fish - out - of - water tale occurs in 1995, when 18 - year - old Selin, the New Jersey - born daughter of Turkish immigrants, begins her first year at Harvard, where she hopes to study linguistics.

Over the years, these ethnoburbs have overtaken more urban ethnic neighborhoods especially in instances where the makeup of the new immigrants are mostly professionals working in suburban satellite belts of large cities.

And while, eleven years later, new immigrants to Canada continue to be a fundamental part of our economic progress and success as a country, especially concerning major cities like Toronto or Vancouver where they're interwoven into the very fabric of society, it's also become quite difficult for newcomers to the country to establish a life for themselves here.

At the Whitney, she will show new large - scale paintings, including one of a Latino runner's club and another of the women's cabinet to the New York City mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, where she was part of the 2015 fellowship progrnew large - scale paintings, including one of a Latino runner's club and another of the women's cabinet to the New York City mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, where she was part of the 2015 fellowship progrNew York City mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, where she was part of the 2015 fellowship program.

She has since had her passport returned and is back on U.S. shores, where she's currently in the midst of an artist residency with New York City Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs.

Five percent of her staff members are DACA recipients, or Dreamers, as they are known, and the museum is operating in a borough where about 91,000 undocumented immigrants are eligible for DACA, the highest of New York City's five boroughs.

Prerana Reddy is the Director of Public Events at the Queens Museum, where she oversees the Museum's community engagement and public art initiatives working with a full - time community organizer to combine arts and culture with social development goals in nearby neighborhoods predominately comprised of new immigrants.