Sentences with phrase «of immigrants to this country»

Contemporary evidence about the economic cultures of East Asia, of successful ethnic groups in different countries, or of the mobility of immigrants to this country all seems to point in the same direction: self - denial and discipline are virtues that are the condition sine qua non of early capitalist development.

With municipal ID's and driver's licenses, undocumented immigrants today would be able to better provide for their families, contribute more to the economy and fully integrate into the American mainstream, just as generations of immigrants to this country have before them.»

Media coverage of key worker shortages in the NHS and social care may have highlighted the importance of immigrants to this country.

Not exact matches

In the wake of Trump's move to bar immigrants from seven predominately Muslim countries, Starbucks» CEO vowed to hire 10,000 refugees globally.

As of 2012, it's estimated that the number of illegal immigrants in the country has actually declined by over 1 million people to a total of 11 million.

According to the study, authored by Vivek Wadhwa, an Indian - American entrepreneur and academic, who is currently vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University, the proportion of immigrant - founded companies across the country has fallen nearly 4 % in the past seven years.

To be sure, the country still has more than 11 million undocumented immigrants within its borders, as Trump never tires of pointing out.

Canada is a nation of immigrants, and a new report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) suggests that there are plenty of workers in other countries who would like to join in.

Hundreds of thousands of people have flooded the streets in the US and abroad protesting Trump's executive order, dubbed a «Muslim ban» by prominent critics because the order specifically applies to immigrants from seven majority - Muslim countries.

One area in which Petersen breaks with Trump very specifically is the issue of «the wall,» which the president has long promised to build along the entire US - Mexico border to stem the tide of undocumented immigrants and drugs entering the country.

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.»

He continued: «The popularity of #deleteUber only exists because decent people around the country and world — including the unionized cab drivers Uber hates and targets — took to the streets, occupying airports in defense of refugees, immigrants, and Muslims.»

The business world continues to assess the impact of Trump's immigration ban two days after he signed the order prohibiting refugees and other immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S.

The most pressing problem right now is Donald Trump's recent executive order banning the admission of refugees to the US entirely and likewise banning immigrants from seven Muslim - majority countries.

Chief of staff John Kelly phoned Trump from Capitol Hill to advise him against accepting the proposal, and the president summoned conservative Republican negotiators to help build a united front against the plan, which would have provided some border security funding as well as protection from deportation for immigrants brought to the country as children and now here illegally.

President - elect Donald Trump has threatened to bar all Muslims from entering the country, and suggested building a «big, beautiful, powerful wall» across the southern border of the U.S. Recently, he said he would deport millions of undocumented immigrants at once.

A coalition of 17 U.S. states sued the Obama administration on Wednesday saying it acted illegally by issuing an executive order to ease the threat of deportation for millions of immigrants who are in the country without the proper documents.

«Immigrants are essential to the success of our country and addressing the plight of the dreamers is a top priority for this network,» said Brian Hook, co-chairman of the Seminar Network.

Adds Etrit, 28, who was COO of Detroit - based smart building technology company Hepta Systems before leaving recently to co-found Kodelabs, a software development and real estate technology start - up, with Edi: «From an economic standpoint, immigrants only make this country better, because different minds think differently, and that's what makes this country amazing.

A bipartisan group of leading senators unveiled an agreement Monday on the principles for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, including a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants already in this country.

Business organizations like the Chamber of Commerce have called for immigration reform, saying immigrants are good for the economy while advocating a tough but «fair process for undocumented people who are living in our country today to earn a legal status.»

Trump's reported choice of terminology to describe majority - black countries — while suggesting that more immigrants should come to the U.S. from the very - white Norway — sparked international outrage.

Overall arrests of immigrants in the country illegally have increased in recent months, but deportations have declined slightly, according to the most recently available government data.

President Donald Trump strongly defended his move to impose a travel ban on seven largely Muslim countries, saying that that while America was «a proud nation» of immigrants, his order was strictly about national security and not religion.

But I believe that newer immigrants from poorer countries are hardworking and not afraid of doing jobs that people here don't want to do.

«This weekend, Trump closed the country's borders to refugees, immigrants, and even documented residents from around the world based on their country of origin,» the statement reads.

The immigration plan will help undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, and young immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children.

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.

Over the coming decades, Smith expects an influx of immigrants into the north, drawn by a milder climate and jobs in the resource sector, helping to deliver «an unprecedented economic jolt» to countries like Canada, Russia and Scandinavian nations.

The government has arrested thousands of immigrants in the country illegally and threatened to withhold funding from sanctuary jurisdictions, which limit cooperation between local and federal immigration authorities.

But a crackdown would directly affect an array of industries that historically have relied on the labor pool of an estimated 8.1 million undocumented immigrants who work (or look for work) in the U.S. Trump has also threatened to ban Muslim immigration, create a registry of Muslims in the country, surveil mosques, and introduce «extreme vetting» of visa applicants» religious beliefs.

Duterte, whose grandfather was an immigrant from China's Xiamen province, has sought to underscore the closeness of his country and China and the necessity of improved relations with Beijing for Manila.

The vast majority of Mexican immigrants who returned to their home country did so of their own accord.

According to a 2011 study by the National Foundation for American Policy, the most common country of origin for an immigrant founder of a top - 50 venture - backed company was India, followed by Israel, Canada, and then Iran.

Federal appeals courts in the states of Washington and Virginia are set to hear arguments this week on the legality of President Donald Trump's most recent travel ban, which sharply limits visitors and immigrants from eight countries, six of them Muslim - majority.

The so - called MTV Problem has put pressure on the three big cities to integrate a large number of immigrants while denying most other areas of the country the benefits of an expanding pool of labour that immigration can bring.

Trump has focused on an «America first» agenda when it comes to skilled labor and has proposed «extreme vetting» of immigrants from countries that the president says are known for terrorism.

This means he is prepared to be more forgiving in terms of past credit problems, will accept income volatility among the self - employed, and will ease onerous requirements to produce bank records from other countries when it comes to writing mortgage insurance policies for immigrants.

However, I think a lot of non-immigrants don't understand the process entrepreneurs, employees, and even employers have to go through in order for immigrants to work in this country.

Clearly, as a populace we're ready for any idea that might improve the overall economic picture, and the folks at the Kauffmann Foundation think they have one: Getting members of Congress to get off their butts and pass a startup visa to help bring more immigrant entrepreneurs into the country.

It's fitting that the week after the generation's greatest entrepreneur died, business leaders and academics descended on Washington to make the case for relaxing the policies that are cutting the country's richest vein of entrepreneurial talent: skilled immigrants.

In addition, immigrants from countries with which Canada had signed social security agreements would be allowed to aggregate years of residence in Canada and countries of origin in order to satisfy qualifying requirements.

At the time of the change in residence requirements, it was hoped that Canada would enter into social security agreements with countries that were the source of immigration so that partial payments of social security pensions would be received by adult immigrants to Canada.

Dear Mark, i do believe in entrepreneurs as i am one of them.I curently operate a dental laboratory in California, that needs funding.I am in the procces of attracting business from dentists i work with through direct mail and telemarketing.I'm setting up a small offshore office to do the marketing part since the overhead is to expensive here.But the manufacturing of the finished products will be done in the USA creating jobs through production.A lot of manufacturing work is done offshore but through line production i'd like to keep the most in here.As an immigrant to this country i'd like to suport it to get back in shape financialy for the future of my childrens.I am also copying an idea i have seen at a large company i used to work.I'm in the process of setting up 2 other companies that will compete with my existing one but since they will be providing same products at different prices will atract different type of clients (dentists).

I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).

Buffett praised the country for its «economic dynamism,» adding that «Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers.»

Just endless rounds of downsizing, mergers creating economies of scale and less jobs, globalization, importing workers who depress wages due to country of origin standards, or because they don't have full labor rights or any labor rights (all employer sponsored based immigrants).

DACA has protected about 800,000 younger immigrants who were brought to this country as children by their parents, many of them entering illegally and others staying without legal permission.

• Mr. Trump tweeted on Sunday that there would be no deal to protects thousands of young immigrants brought to the country as children and threatened to walk away from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Larger companies employing many H - 1B workers in the United States will pay an extra fee of $ 4,000 for each new H - 1B visa — up from $ 2,000 — and another $ 4,000 to move an H - 1B immigrant who is already in the country to a new employer.