Yesterday's shooting which killed 17 children was done not by a Muslim, not by ISIS, not by MS - 13,
Not by immigrants, not by Antifa, but by a man who was a member of a white supremacist group called Republic of Florida.
In these pages I argued that the real problem of «aliens» among us is represented
not by immigrants but by the urban underclass and the intellectual overclass, both of whom are profoundly alienated from the rights and responsibilities of the American experience (see «The Aliens Among Us,» The Public Square, August / September 1993).
Not exact matches
Apple CEO Tim Cook weighed in as well, writing in his own memo to his workforce that the company — founded
by Steve Jobs, the son of an
immigrant from Syria, one of the impacted countries — «would
not exist without immigration, let alone thrive and innovate the way we do.»
«The next president of the United States will pass meaningful immigration reform so that it will be solved, and
not by executive order,» Bush said, referring to President Obama's executive order from November, which legalized the status of 5 million undocumented
immigrants.
Apparently it doesn't matter to Donald Trump that many businesses and citizens are outraged
by his views about illegal
immigrants.
While Goldin was
not asked
by employees to step down from her role with NACIE, she felt a responsibility to stand up for her diverse workforce that includes
immigrants, Muslims and LGBTQ people.
Forty percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded
by immigrants or the children of
immigrants and H - 1B workers fulfill highly paid roles where existing demand can
not be met
by domestic candidates, he said.
A 2014 study
by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a group that promotes tougher immigration laws, concluded that in New Hampshire the vast majority of job creation went to
immigrants and
not to native residents.
Stopgap measures, executive actions, and partisan standoffs don't cut it anymore as policy for a country that was literally built
by immigrants.
Unlike the nationalism of more culturally monolithic nations that tends to exclude foreign - born citizens, in Canada it's
immigrants like Abdul - Rahiim and Tura — people who live here
by choice,
not happenstance — who tend to be the biggest patriots.
The plan, reported
by BuzzFeed, is notable partly because it permits the government to amass information
not only about recent
immigrants, but also on green card holders and naturalized Americans as well.
Suggesting that we can build an endless wall along our borders, and blame our challenges on
immigrants — that doesn't just run counter to our history as the world's melting pot; it contradicts the evidence that our growth and our innovation and our dynamism has always been spurred
by our ability to attract strivers from every corner of the globe.
«He had been a huge climate leader, huge labor champion, a real nationwide leader in terms of
immigrants» rights and we just felt like, in addition to everything else, we felt he wasn't getting a fair shot
by the establishment,» Steyer said.
She said she doesn't want any groups of students or young workers unintentionally left behind
by whatever changes the Liberals ultimately decide upon, but suggested that future changes would look to target vulnerable populations like indigenous youth and new
immigrants, who have a harder time accessing the job market.
Lobby groups — representing Canadian businesses with relationships with Chinese communist state firms, as well as associations largely composed of recent
immigrants from the PRC — predicted dire consequences for Canadian interests in China if our PM showed «disrespect»
by not attending APEC in Beijing.
One official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said that Mr. Trump was sympathetic to the plight of the young
immigrants, known as Dreamers — many have known life only in the United States and have few connections to the countries of their birth — but had been told
by Justice Department lawyers that his predecessor's program would
not survive a court challenge.
In an industry dominated
by white, glad - handing alpha males, Pandit is a bookish Indian
immigrant known for his financial acumen but
not his...
[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data),
immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters
by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated
by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.
TV ad after Russian complaints Complaints
by Russian - speaking
immigrants prompted an ultra-Orthodox party in Israel to pull a TV commercial plugging their election campaign which shows a man recoiling in horror at discovering his bride is
not Jewish.
The parish in question, located in Doha and largely attended
by immigrant and guest workers from a variety of Orthodox cultures, is
not really the subject of a «turf war» between Antioch and Jerusalem, though it might seem that way from the outside.
Relationships with
immigrants and refugees don't always need to be brokered
by a charitable organization.
One
immigrant tells of how exhilaration «was soon replaced
by anger and disbelief when he discovered that a local synagogue in Washington Heights denied him admission to its Yom Kippur services because he had
not purchased a ticket, even though he explained that he had only recently been liberated from a concentration camp.
But now those are already there at yours maybe if you prepare them right as to education and training for finally deputing them to return to their own countries with the needful backup and authority they will be useful tools for the advancement and prosperity of their nations then you will have no one wanting to immigrate leaving behind their own families and friends... in addition to that you will see those who immigrated towards your country start moving back to their own countries and this is the only solution to resolve the issue of illegal immigration and to find peace... otherwise if things go on as it is today surely slowly slowly you will find that your own countries become inherited
by piling up
immigrants who might get starved due negligence turn on against the Host country... that has contributed in the destructions of their countries but
not towards and advancements or developments of their countries and nations to find peace and make a living..!?
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 fou
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 fou
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.
Those who defend the right to life of the weakest among us must be equally visible in support of the quality of life of the powerless among us: the old and the young, the hungry and the homeless, the undocumented
immigrant and the unemployed worker... Consistency means we can't have it both ways» (quoted
by Mark Shield on CNN.com, May 7).
Currently european and north american nations are being de-Christinized,
not only
by attacks from science and the arts, but also
by the plantation of
immigrants with other faiths, most notably Muslim and Hindu beliefs.
However, are
not the people (or at least most of them) putting together this center & mosque also Americans, or
immigrants wishing to become citizens, and therefore covered
by the same right of freedom of religion that you and I enjoy?
They are
not voluntary
immigrants, but exiles forced from Cuba
by the rise of a brutal autocrat.
44, No. 3, 1974, that the fuel for the melting pot was
not only hope but also shame, and that was indeed inflicted on the
immigrants by the majority population.
While the principal function of the
immigrant churches was to preserve the ethnic and cultural identity of the
immigrants, the main purpose of the mission churches, resulting from agreements negotiated
by and with churches in the United States, was
not to serve communities of U.S. citizens in the region, but to plant churches among the local inhabitants.
You want to preach about how they should play
by our rules, why
not play
by the rules of the native americans, they were here first, or how about
by the rules of the Irish
immigrants they came here before the polish ones, or how about remembering where this country came from, who we were, and what we stood for, and then getting out of our own way to allow our country to be restored to the glory that it once was.
The Rubio aide asserted that American workers «can't cut it» and needed to be replaced
by immigrants.
Yet their minister, in making a pastoral call, had the gall to inquire about her silence, failing to see that this Dutch
immigrant mother was a latter - day Rachel, refusing to be comforted
by anyone but God — and perhaps
not even
by him.
«The interpretation of whether or
not a crime is considered «particularly serious» is dictated
by the type of relief an applicant is seeking, and can also involve some subjectivity on the part of a judge,» said Courtney Tudi, director of
immigrant legal services at World Relief.
That movie featured
not one but two excellent fight scenes soundtracked
by Led Zeppelin's «
Immigrant Song,» which is very cool.
Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost,
by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed
by the image of a crumbling, old,
immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»
The single paragraph devoted to Christian
Immigrants by Eck in her much - noticed book A New Religious America obscures the fact that the new immigration is bringing about
not so much a new diversity among American religions as diversity within America's majority religion.
That didn't come to much: the Chippewa were resettled
by the government shortly afterwards, and, in any case, it is difficult to imagine those theologically rigorous Lutheran
immigrants» insistent at all times that the distinction between law and gospel be strictly maintained» having much success in proselytizing efforts among a people to whom the simplest expressions of Christian doctrine would have seemed quite esoteric.
Like
immigrant Protestants, Catholics, and Jews before them, Muslim
immigrant families are seeking to find their place in American society on the basis of their distinctive religious identity,
not by renouncing it.
I do
not see giving in to greed and corruption, or any form of facism (
by the RR) as a possibility, and I do
not see giving our country away to illegal
immigrants as a requirement.
Yes, but the
immigrants assimilated into the larger American society
by adopting our founding principles - life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness -
not by insisting society adapt to the cultures they came from.
We can't call ourselves Catholic, and then simply stand
by while
immigrants get mistreated, or the poor get robbed, or unborn children get killed.
The isolationist party, best known
by the name of America First, was in fact a jumble of people with a whole variety of agendas: there were those who believed that the United States should have no truck with Europe and its wars, there were socialists who found nothing to choose among the imperialists on both sides, and there were those who believed that Germany's was
not necessarily the wrong side to be on, this latter group itself being a kind of odd amalgam of Anglophobes, anti-Semites who said that the war against Hitler was merely a Jewish war, and
immigrant German patriots.
We also oppose provisions of the bill that expand the immigration detention system and erode the basic rights afforded to
immigrants, including the provisions that allow for the indefinite detention of individuals who can
not be deported to their home countries; that expedite removal proceedings or automatically imprison
immigrants without providing them access to attorneys or judges; that increase detention capacity
by an additional 20,000 beds to house
immigrants awaiting their day in court; and that diminish the checks and balances of judicial review over immigration decisions.
It is a melting pot of all nations, cultures and religions that is why everyone likes to come here... America is built
by immigrants... even ur ancestors came from somewhere so don't act like ur own America... Muslim Americans have as much rights here in America anyone else.
The conference — cohosted
by the ERLC and Focus on the Family — features more than 50 speakers addressing
not only abortion but such issues as adoption, end - of - life care, ministry to those with special needs, human trafficking, service to
immigrants and refugees, and the development of a pro-life worldview.
And while this educational gap was perhaps understandable in a church dominated until the very recent past
by immigrants and their children, it is nonetheless a formidable problem today, for, in Cicero's words, «
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.»
But giving your mom a speech about how you are morally superior to her for
not eating animals is false logic, considering the slave labor used to produce your fruits, vegetables, nuts, and other delicious animal - free ingredients (coffee, sugar, bananas, mangos, berries, peaches, and cashews are just a few examples of foods imported from the third world where workers are severely mistreated and underpaid, or farmed
by underpaid Mexican
immigrants in the US).
By the time Heineman was succeeded by Pete Ricketts in January, Nebraska was the only U.S. state where so - called Dreamers — undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. before they were 16 — couldn't apply for a driver's license, student aid or a work permi
By the time Heineman was succeeded
by Pete Ricketts in January, Nebraska was the only U.S. state where so - called Dreamers — undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. before they were 16 — couldn't apply for a driver's license, student aid or a work permi
by Pete Ricketts in January, Nebraska was the only U.S. state where so - called Dreamers — undocumented
immigrants who entered the U.S. before they were 16 — couldn't apply for a driver's license, student aid or a work permit.
But
by the end of the 1990s the stockyards had closed, and today many of the families of the South High soccer players — with
immigrant parents from
not only Mexico but also Central America, Southeast Asia and Africa — live in the housing stock abandoned
by those Europeans and work in the lone meatpacking plant, a few blocks from the school.