Sentences with phrase «of immigrant kids»

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Yes, many are the children of illegal immigrants (as are two out of three of the country's foreign - born Hispanic kids.)

This is for everyone who stayed home from church yesterday — for every mom of a special needs kid, every survivor of sexual assault, every black or brown body in a predominantly white community, every son or daughter of an immigrant, every defender of the marginalized who just couldn't bring yourself to stand and sing «Great Is Thy Faithfulness» alongside the people you feel sold you out this week, the Christians who supported Donald Trump.

Illegal immigrants came from Bangladesh and Pakistan into India and each of the family has at least 7 - 8 kids and no food to provide for.

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

The son of Belarusian immigrants, Dlagnev clashed with his family as a kid and became a Christian in high school.

As the granddaughter of Austro - Hungarian immigrants, I ate an awful lot of Hungarian food as a kid.

be it england german or france, cause the citizens of the famous european countries do nt have as much fire or will to fight as the immigrant of war countries / financially «handicapped» sub-countries like sanchez put it rightly, these spoiled kids of the rich countries have bee too long in their comfort zones, while the secondos are had to fight for a lot of things while a lot of the citizens helped them another side of the citizens (people like you) confronted them with racial views and ridicule..

The treatment of the Windrush kids is one of those rare moments when there is a broad political consensus on defending immigrants.

In hopes of breaking the logjam, Cuomo tied the tax credit to passage of a state DREAM Act that would allow for state tuition assistance money to go to the college kids of undocumented immigrants.

* DREAMers: College affordability plan does not offer state tuition assistance to the college kids of undocumented immigrants.

Besides reviewing the kids» cases, the lawyers have held 100 - plus bilingual «Know Your Rights» orientations, where immigrants are encouraged to take advantage of another of Ms. Mark - VIverito's signature initiatives: the IDNYC municipal identification, which allows any person — regardless of legal status — to make use of nearly all city agencies and organizations.

«Both are publicly toxic to the taxpayers of New York state,» said one Republican senator, suggesting there was no way legislators were going to stiff immigrant kids and then allow the same type of program for convicts serving time.

Had it passed, New York would have become the fifth state to enact the DREAM Act, which would have allowed state financial aid programs to cover the college kids of undocumented immigrants.

As a way to show a strong exception to intractable prevalence of the phenomenon in Kano state, Governor Ganduje alleged that most almajiri kids were not only from neighbouring states but were immigrants from some countries in West Africa.

Such legislation includes a bill to make it easier for child sex abuse victims to seek justice as adults, creation of a state DREAM Act to provide state tuition assistance to the college kids of undocumented immigrants and measures to strengthen the state's abortion laws, the Cuomo aide said.

The IDC resolution also supports the creation of a state DREAM Act that would give the college kids of undocumented immigrants access to state tuition assistance programs, funding for teacher centers, and Cuomo's push to spend up to $ 1 million on a memorial in New York City honoring «all victims of hate, intolerance, and violence» in the wake of a club shooting in Orlando last year.

Senate Co-Leader Dean Skelos (R - Long Island) and Sen. Martin Golden (R - Brooklyn) said they would not support expanding a proposed education investment tax credit to help fund scholarships for the college kids of illegal immigrants — a plan some saw as a compromise to the DREAM Act that was voted down in the Senate last week.

«An Italian Catholic kid from Queens, born to immigrant parents, Mario paired his faith in God and faith in America to live a life of public service — and we are all better for it.

Senate Republicans, while opposing the DREAM Act, which would allow taxpayer - funded state tuition assistance programs to be used on the colege kids of illegal immigrants, support the education tax credit that would provide a benefit for those who donate to private and public schools.

And he renewed his call for passage of a state DREAM Act that would provide state tuition assistance to the college kids of undocumented immigrants.

«Any immigrant who is a citizen of this state should be appalled by the DREAM Act,» Malliotakis told National Review in 2014, «because while they're taking out debt... and while they're working multiple jobs to put their kids through school, those who do not follow the rules are set to get a benefit that should be reserved for citizens.»

Meanwhile there are flashbacks of young Louis (C.J. Valleroy) as a poor Italian immigrant growing up in Torrance, Southern California, where he was a juvenile delinquent and faced bigoted taunts from the local kids.

As a young kid Leonardo Dicaprio's sees his dad killed by Daniel Day - Lewis in a street squabble between immigrants of all feathers and the natives.

Up in the flak - filled clouds, Louis (English actor Jack O'Connell) flashes back to his childhood in the 1920s, as a scrappy immigrant kid (played by C. J. Valleroy) in Torrance, Calif., heading for a life of violence and petty crime.

What a Forgotten Kids» Book Reveals About U.S. Publishing — Pooja Makhijani examines the poignant children's novel Gay Neck, which was written by an Indian immigrant who became the first person of color to win the Newbery Medal.

Nonetheless, director George Tillman, Jr. has crafted a very absorbing, cradle to the grave bio-pic which does vividly recount exactly how a latchkey kid being raised by an immigrant single - mom (Angela Bassett) in the slums of Bed - Stuy could have overcome the odds only to be slain at the height of his fame in a seemingly senseless drive - by shooting in Hollywood.

Unmade Beds — This film by Alexis Dos Santos comes dangerously close to obnoxiousness, following as it does a pair of hipster immigrant kids as they try to sort out and get going with their lives.

Amazon also presents the Australian mini-series Picnic at Hanging Rock, a new take on the real - life Australian mystery starring Natalie Dormer, and launches the original immigrant drama Diablo Guardian with Mexican star Paulina Gaitain and a revival of the animated kids show Rocky & Bullwinkle in May.

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

«A lot of caring is expanding the concern that kids have for their family and friends to other people who are outside that circle — the friendless kid on the playground, the immigrant at school, the bus driver, the school secretary,» [Senior Lecturer Richard] Weissbourd said.

Piney Branch Elementary serves an incredibly diverse group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, from the children of übereducated white and black middle - class families, to poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, to low - income African American kids.

A group of black, Latino, and immigrant kids might have concerns related to the social environments they live in.

Just as he changed the narrative of the labor movement that too often «forgot» to advocate for Latinos, immigrants, the poorest of the poor and people of color, he saw that in education, educational outcomes for kids were not always part of the debate nor were they a priority.

It isn't new at all: The Poor - Kids - Can't - Learn argument dates as far back as the Progressive Era of the last century, when another generation of educators declared that blacks and immigrants were also incapable of learning; it gave us the ability tracking and the comprehensive high school model that has helped foster the nation's education crisis.

In an essay for Education Votes, Palacios, the daughter of immigrants, wrote: «When I meet with parents, they recognize I'm one of them and not just because we speak the same language but because I believe in their kids.»

Anyone who supports the rights of immigrants should speak up and demand that school districts do more to preserve the right of all kids to a full education in our public schools.

In fact, in 1996, a group of Latino immigrant parents in Los Angeles protested against their local elementary schools for ignoring their requests to teach their kids in only English.

Whether that's being an immigrant kid or something else, I think that all children can relate to that idea of having multiple parts that need to be reconciled so you can come into your own strength.

Still, even that little bit of «fame» was a lot for an anonymous immigrant kid from central Jersey who'd worked his way through school.

Part of it is the job market and the other is immigrant parents» push for their kids to attend post-secondary school and achieve more than they were able to in their countries of origin.

Working with low - income, minority, and immigrant children, Christian taught game design and Lego robotics in an effort to keep kids out of gangs, off of drugs, and on a path towards better opportunities.

• Denver Art Museum architect Daniel Libeskind shares at No. 97, a hawthorn, about how as an immigrant kid, the trees reminded him of Poland.

Laura will intern with the King County Bar Association's Pro Bono Services Family Law Program assisting children in immigration matters in collaboration with Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP).

She also represents immigrant and refugee children in deportation proceedings through the organization Kids in Need of Defense (KIND).

Through this initiative, Equal Justice Works is partnering with Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), Kids In Need of Defense (KIND), and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) to place 55 legal professionals — lawyers and paralegals — in 14 cities across the United States.

The bulk of the Justice Department grant — $ 1.2 million — Stern's organization will share with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc.; Kids in Need of Defense; and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.

Equal Justice Works, in partnership with Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), will receive $ 1.2 million — more than half of the total funding — to deploy 55 full - time Members (45 lawyers and 10 paralegals) to provide legal representation to unaccompanied children, build pro bono capacity to support that population, and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of immigration courts in the locations in which members will serve.

Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) KIND, like the Unaccompanied Minors Project, is an organization that assists unaccompanied immigrant children in need of legal counsel in the United States.

(Laughs) Actually, my dad had always done them when I was a kid, and he learned from an immigrant from Austria years ago, so I'm sort of a third - generation silhouette artist.