Sentences with phrase «poor immigrants»

Someone like me gets cheap housekeeping and take - out delivery, while poor immigrants get paying jobs.

Early in the century, poor immigrants in New York City could buy or lease a shop with a fair chance of prospering.

The idea is to provide a way to help poor immigrant families afford college.

She dedicated her life to helping poor immigrant children.

As I go to court with poor immigrants, visit their children in schools and translate for them in job interviews, I am always stmck by how much social capital I have by simply being able to speak English well and to work as a professional in the community.

In 2001, he became founding principal of Bronx International High School, a dare - you - to - beat - the - odds school for poor immigrant students, which went on to receive some of the best scores among peer institutions in the city.

«They were just poor immigrants, facing a language barrier and living a marginal life.

I say to them, start with me, Andrew Cuomo, the grandson of Andrea and Immacolata Cuomo, Italian poor immigrants,» he tells a roomful of people who are mostly immigrants.

If Labour need to make a break from New Labour then get rid of Blair because it stinks of his control within Labour at the moment, saying immigration is a Tory problem would make the public laugh out loud, saying we did make some mistakes, to try and get UKIP voters back, will not work, you tried to change the voting pattern by bringing in poor immigrants who did not end up voting.

East London is home to many poor immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh, and their community suffers high rates of illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, a former school teacher of poor immigrants on the outskirts of the American Dream, recognized the awesome power of the federal government to ensure that all students, regardless of socioeconomic status, receive a quality education.

The year is 1924, and the remote mines of Appalachia have filled with families like Emma's, poor immigrant laborers building new lives half a world away from the island of Sicily.

«Several poor immigrants lost their life savings even though the government could not prove that they, or their money, had any connection to drugs.»

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

Wanting to see for himself, Mike visits his local elementary school in Takoma Park, Maryland, where «the children of übereducated whites» are in the same classrooms as poor blacks, black middle - class families» and «poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.»

In reality, the marchers were celebrating the right and duty of the native French to insult the religion of poor immigrants.

Downtown churches were suddenly filled by poor immigrants from Catholic nations (Latin America and the Caribbean) without a tradition of Catholic schools, much less a habit of paying for them.

For this series he worked on the Lower Eastside of New York in a building that for almost two centuries had been a stopping point for poor immigrants.

I tell myself that as long as I am nice to the waitress who messed up my order, as long as I smile at the poor immigrant shopping at the thrift store, as long as I share encouraging words the single mom, as long as I show up to the wedding shower with a $ 25 gift, as long as I am polite to the needy friend and tolerant of the drama queen friend, as long as I roll my eyes in private and keep my judgments to myself — then I am following Christ's command to love my neighbor.

This ingrained bias was perpetuated by class prejudice against the waves of poor immigrants — first the Irish, Italian, German, Polish, Hungarian, and Mexican, and later the Filipino, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Vietnamese, Haitian, and Central American poor who came to the U.S. in search of a better life.

He wonders about the sharp, derogatory words in Dylan's mid-1960s song «I Pity the Poor Immigrant.»

The spot will focus on the Gristedes CEO's upbringing as a poor immigrant and will contain other biographical information to help him connect with outer - borough voters.

The 1996 made - for - television movie Titanic tells the story of how this disaster came to befall the great ship, and what happened to the passengers on board — both the wealthy socialites in first class and the poor immigrants in steerage.

There's hope for this film, even if it only lasts about ten minutes — Jeremy, especially, is sketched as an experience glutton, hoarding appetizers and shoving wedding cake into his mouth like my poor immigrant grandmother at the all - you - can - eat buffet.

Ephraim Katz writes of Garfield (born Julius Garfinkle, the son of a poor immigrant Jewish tailor): «[His] screen character was... not much at variance with his own personality — that of a cynical, defiant young man from the other side of the tracks, a resilient rebel with a chip on his shoulder who desperately tries to charm and muscle his way onward and upward.

Their first stop, at a tiny supply depot, turns unexpectedly violent when a poor immigrant family attempts to hold the general store up to steal money.

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.

Zachary Lazar, author of I Pity the Poor Immigrant

Through short, diary - like chapters she brings us up close and personal with her life and the very real problems of being a poor immigrant living in an effective ghetto, surrounded by poverty, bigotry, racism and misogyny - so we can get some sense of how overwhelming it is to survive in such an environment, let alone to dream of finding a better life.

While living openly as a gay man on the Lower East Side, then a poor immigrant neighborhood with a large Latino population, he quickly became part of a burgeoning arts scene.

I would have expected them to have noticed that the fertility rate is rising in America purely among the poor immigrant population, who hail largely from Latin America, have been in the country about 5 minutes and are largely poor.

Their contention is that the country's open immigration policies are hurting the environment by bringing in poor immigrants and making them richer, thus increasing their environmental impact.