Sentences with phrase «own immigrant parents»

Cocreators Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang won for writing the episode «Parents,» an episode that focused on the two's immigrant parents.

Les Wexner, born to immigrant parents from Russia, grew up working at the general merchandise store they operated in Columbus, Ohio.

Maybe it's thanks to the spirit of his Italian immigrant parents, Cesare and Rosa, who landed in Minnesota (of all places) back in 1907 and struggled to make ends meet.

Growing up disadvantaged in Braintree, Mass., the daughter of Chinese - Vietnamese immigrant parents who fled their native country in refugee boats, your mom viewed school as a means of bettering herself.

Born in Palo Alto, to Israeli immigrant parents, she had a front - row seat to the rise of the tech boom.

But candidate and MP Michael Chong, whose stump speech begins with a story about being the child of immigrant parents, could shift easily into the space vacated by Kenney's departure.

Ross Douthat declared it a defect that the movie requires Kumail, its Pakistan - born protagonist, to choose between his immigrant parents» religious faith and the American girl he loves.

The President's plan would broaden the eligibility requirements of a current policy that grants deferred action to immigrants who came into the country illegally as children (expanding it to reach about 300,000 new individuals), and, most significantly, would also give the same protection to immigrant parents who have children born in the U.S..

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.

It's territory they know well: Each of the of members is either a first generation immigrant, or the children of immigrant parents.

Finding the right balance between religion - based norms and the demands of adjusting to a society based on quite different norms would be difficult enough, especially given the students» awareness that their immigrant parents bring both Muslim and ethnic sensibilities that need to be disentangled from each other.

But my world was different from that of my immigrant parents, let alone the first - century world Jesus had lived in 2,000 years earlier.

Raised by Chinese immigrant parents who taught her the art of simple, healthy, home - style Cantonese food, Sharon Wong, MEd, focuses her blog on «allergy aware Asian fare.»

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.

Infantino, the Swiss - born son of Italian immigrant parents, took over the scandal - battered world body from disgraced president Sepp Blatter in February 2016.

I struggle so much with this, and struggled with not fitting in (immigrant parents!

I kept telling Laurel, «We're just going to have to work harder» and it made me think of my immigrant parents, who share the story of so many immigrants in America.

Still, she points out that most of the immigrant parents she meets are struggling to pay their bills.

How does unemployment or underemployment status of some immigrant parents effect their parenting styles?

This is a panel of diverse experts discussing the role home cultures play in the way immigrant parents raise their children.

In this country, 63 % of infants and toddlers (under age 3) with immigrant parents — 1.3 million — live in low - income families.

She has a compelling biography with immigrant parents, support from the left and has a base in the suburbs.

She was born in Queens of Colombian immigrant parents, speaks fluent Spanish, and will fight for immigrants» rights in the face of growing hostility from Washington.

The nation's leaders know that our future is tied to the success of young people — including those born of immigrant parents.

Born in University College Hospital in Fitzrovia, London, Miliband is the younger son of immigrant parents.

He was born to American immigrant parents with Hungarian Jew ancestry, and is unreservedly outspoken on matters to which he feels he can contribute.

We can increase ESL classes throughout the state, hire interpertors so that immigrant parents can easily communicate with their American citizen children's teachers, increase funding for immigration advocacy and citizenship application programs.

So his father — whose own immigrant parents ran a corner grocery store — felt a kind of organic connection to Buffalo, Cuomo said, a «natural association» enshrined in Mario's landmark speech about American principles at the 1984 Democratic convention in San Francisco.

Mario dwelled on the role played by his own immigrant parents in his son's political education.

A child of immigrant parents, the district's Councilmember Margaret Chin, recalled her family's own experience with a language barrier.

Born in the Bronx to Jamaican immigrant parents, Blake relocated to Illinois at age 18 to attend Northwestern University.

There was his burning passion, the quality that pushed Cuomo from his first - generation Italian immigrants parents» grocery store in Queens to law school to mediating an ugly dispute over low - income housing.

Mario Cuomo, born to immigrant parents who ran a grocery store in Queens, almost became a major league baseball player, before entering law school and turning to politics.

Born in the Bronx to Jamaican immigrant parents, Blake moved to Illinois at age 18 to attend Northwestern University.

«In the process, we have created a county that works for all of its residents, from a newborn born to immigrant parents on the West Side of Buffalo to the fourth generation of family farmer nearing retirement in Marilla.»

Born in Staten Island to Greek immigrant parents, Maragos moved to Long Island City five years ago while attending Cooper Union.

«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.

BDS submits written testimony to the NYC Council Committee on Immigration Oversight Hearing on NYC Support for Immigrant Parents of Children Ages 0 - 5 Years.

«Maine, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois have been particularly successful in enrolling eligible children with immigrant parents in insurance programs, and are models for the rest of the country,» Dr Seiber notes.

Each year's data included over 40,000 children living in immigrant families: those who had either immigrated themselves or had at least one immigrant parent.

While previous studies have shown that children living in immigrant families are more likely to be uninsured, less is known about what percentage of uninsured children who are immigrants or have immigrant parents.

«Having an immigrant parent is a defining characteristic of uninsured children,» Dr Seiber writes.

More than two - thirds of uninsured children with immigrant parents are US citizens, according to an analysis of nationwide survey data by Eric E. Seiber, PhD, of The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Columbus.

When immigrant parents live in neighborhoods with a high concentration of people from their same ethnic background, their babies weigh less than those of Canadian - born parents.

An additional 10 % had at least one immigrant parent.

However when I left the comforts of military life and moved to NYC as a teen I learned that interracial dating was a different situation when dealing with the 2 Asian immigrant parent household dichotomy.

Wary and tight - lipped, David is the only child of immigrant parents who have settled in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles, where they run a failing grocery store and attend church.

Peter's immigrant parents left him alone in America in the late - 1800s when they were denied entry.

«Mambo Italiano» (Samuel Goldwyn Films) Italian immigrant parents are thrown for a loop when their only son, the writer they dream of marrying off to a nice Canadian Italian girl, comes out of the closet.

'» jokes Troche, the child of immigrant parents who grew up hiding her minority identity on multiple levels in a tough Chicago neighborhood during the 1960s and»70s.