Sentences with phrase «number of immigrants from»

They are a real cultural mix; there are Lebanese, Mayan, Creole, Hispanics, East Indian, some Garifuna and Chinese, and a good number of immigrants from almost everywhere.
The population of black people in Scotland has grown in recent years, mainly due to immigration from sub-Saharan Africa.Cities such as Edinburgh and Aberdeen have seen a surge in the number of immigrants from countries like Nigeria.
Ukraine's population downsized from 52 million in 1991 to 42 million at present Russia hosts the highest number of immigrants from Ukraine — ...
But some experts predict a large number of immigrants from Eastern Europe, which Labour has warned could put pressure on British jobs and wages.
The twentieth century has seen the coming together of the major Protestant churches into the United Church of Australia while the membership of the Roman Catholic church has increased steadily, partly because of the growing number of immigrants from southern Europe.
As shown in the graph below, the number of immigrants from the Asia Pacific region is fairly large compared to other regions.
In addition to showing the estimated total population change in those areas between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017, the Census Bureau also included a breakdown of the components of that change, including net international migration, or the number of immigrants from other countries moving into a county minus the number of people leaving that county for another country.
As it shows, the 19th and early 20th century saw large numbers of immigrants from anocracies, some from democracies, and few from autocracies.
Concerned that large numbers of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, especially Jewish immigrants, were «polluting» the nation, anti-immigrant spokesmen like attorney Madison Grant asserted the whiteness of Jesus to justify calls for exclusionary legislation.
Still, faced with large numbers of immigrants from poorer countries, immigration officials in richer nations have increasingly been turning to X-rays as a «scientific» way to resolve age disputes.
Countries such as Canada that receive large numbers of immigrants from areas with a high incidence of TB should also consider increased investment in international TB prevention and management.

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Last week, a study published by the Kauffman Foundation using census data from the past 50 years, revealed some eye - opening statistics about the number of immigrant - led companies in America.
In essence, the plan would make the pool of immigrants more homogeneous and dramatically smaller in number, mirroring the misguided origin - based restrictions from the 1920s.
In those last two time periods, the number of Mexican immigrants who returned to Mexico exceeded those entering the U.S. — 1.39 million from 2005 to 2010, and 1 million from 2009 to 2014.
At the same time, increased enforcement in the U.S. has led to an increase in the number of Mexican immigrants who have been deported from the U.S. since 2005 (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2014).
Polis hopes to increase the number of EB - 5 Regional Center Program visas — for foreign investors or entrepreneurs that create at least five jobs for U.S. citizens or legal immigrants — to 10,000 from 3,000; and create a new class of eligibility called Startup Visas.
In 2014 alone, 133,255 immigrants from the Asia Pacific arrived in Canada, or 52 per cent of the total number of immigrants that year.
From 2004 to 2014, the number of Asia Pacific immigrants was on a steady rise along with immigrants from Africa and the Middle EFrom 2004 to 2014, the number of Asia Pacific immigrants was on a steady rise along with immigrants from Africa and the Middle Efrom Africa and the Middle East.
Fresh Expressions of Church and large numbers of immigrant Christians have helped to slow the decline in British churchgoing, according to figures from... More
Surely, while that which Scaperlanda could quote was interesting and helped make his point, the American economy and the number of immigrants, legal and otherwise, is much different from the 1997 analysis from the National Research Council.
Fresh Expressions of Church and large numbers of immigrant Christians have helped to slow the decline in British churchgoing, according to figures from statistician Dr Peter Brierley.
To quote from the Pew research,» The many people who have left the Catholic Church over the years have been replaced, to a great extent, by the large number of Catholic immigrants coming to the U.S.» This should be no surprise given the large number of Hispanic immigrants pouring into the US.
Since Election Day, I have fielded an incredible number of phone calls and received countless emails from sports parents reporting incidents of discrimination and bullying against immigrants, African - Americans, Jews, and LGBT youth by teammates and coaches.
The number of immigrants removed from the US with one of these tools has gone from 120,000 in 2001 to 395,000 in 2011.
Steve Choi, president of the New York Immigration Coalition, a prominent immigrant advocacy group that has hosted a number of actions in response to Trump's immigration policies such as the executive orders targeting people from Muslim - majority countries, said that as a state legislator, Schneiderman was an early supporter of driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
Mr. Schneiderman said in a press release issued Wednesday that his office has received «a number of reports» about fake agents claiming to be with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and demanding money from immigrants.
A new plan from the de Blasio administration, called Direct Access, is intended to expand health care to New Yorkers who do not have it and diminish the mounting number of undocumented immigrants without insurance.
They are vehemently Eurosceptic, calling for withdrawal from both the EU and the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), oppose foreign aid, want to limit the number of EU immigrants coming to the UK and agree that immigrants should have to wait at least five years before receiving state benefits.
No one can ignore the chorus of voices expressing alarm about the number of new labour immigrants coming to the UK from central and eastern Europe.
Many believe the accurate number is even higher because of the presence of undocumented immigrants from Latin America.
Hassell said the media coverage aspect alone is interesting because fewer illegal immigrants have come from Mexico in the past 10 years, yet the number of news articles is increasing.
Chaffetz won bipartisan support in the House more than a year ago for a more limited bill that would shorten the wait for visas for immigrants from countries with the highest number of applications.
Dr. Ray undertook this study because of the large number of immigrants in Ontario from East Africa, particularly Ethiopia and Eritrea, who are known to metabolize codeine into morphine faster than people from some other parts of the world.
A number of differences, of course, distinguish today's science graduate students from the «huddled masses» of largely ill - educated immigrants of yesteryear.
The «nonlocal» individuals appear to come from regions far from the river, and the number of immigrants jumps over time.
An important factor in that increase: over the same time period, the number of immigrant scientists and engineers went from 3.4 million to 5.2 million.
Dating within your own race has been happening historically, but with the steady flow of immigrants from other part of the world, the number of interracial dating in the United States and many countries has increased.
Olcott's «The Lad From Old Ireland» — which played especially well to the growing number of Irish immigrants in the U.S. at the time — is one of the first known examples of an American studio shooting a movie in a foreign location.
Delving into the complex and timely issue of illegal immigration to the United States from South America, and the large number of missing - presumed - dead immigrants who never make it either home or away, this film takes an interesting approach in combining investigative documentary and dramatic retelling.
In the major cities of the Northeast, where Catholic immigrants from Europe had settled in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the reduction in the number of Catholic schools was similar.
In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.
Perhaps our problem is the number of students, compared with those in Europe, who come from immigrant and non-English-speaking homes and the number who come from minority groups still suffering the consequences of various kinds of deprivation.
Due in large part to the influx of immigrant families from a wide variety of nations, rural education is a rapid - growth industry, even as student numbers in urban and suburban schools are declining.
According to analysis conducted by School Dash, schools with a large number of caucasian immigrant children from the European Union outperform those without.
Adjusted means that the approach 1) uses data from the GED Testing Service to count the number of GED recipients and to subtract this number from the total number of individuals who report that they completed high school, and 2) excludes from the calculation recent immigrants, in particular, those who came to the U.S. after age 11 and therefore were educated primarily in non-U.S. schools.
Some might try to comfort themselves by saying the problem is limited to large numbers of students from immigrant families, or to African American students and others who have suffered from discrimination.
Eighteen - year - old Sahmina Rahman, the U.S. - born daughter of immigrants from Bangladesh, is one of a small number of South Asian high school students here who have joined protests against federal proposals to crack down on illegal immigration.
According to the organizations's latest numbers, 70 percent of incoming teachers in the metro LA area, which includes LA Unified and other surrounding districts, identify as non-white; nearly half received federal Pell Grants, which are given to low income students; half are the first in their families to graduate from college, and 10 of the new teachers are recent immigrants who earned federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, which means they are eligible for employment.
Besides covering major holidays, the encyclopedia excels in highlighting numerous lesser - known festivals from countries with increasing numbers of immigrants living in the U.S.
Apart from American Indians, and later a number of nonwhite immigrants such as Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Chinese and Japanese, United States society has been divided into two major racial castes — Negroes and whites.
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