Sentences with phrase «recent immigrants to this country»

In addition, compared to some other ethnic groups, many Hispanics also are recent immigrants to this country.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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»).

Finally, consider the militarization of our society's response to recent racialized conflict: From tear - gassed protesters and check points on Ferguson thruways to calls for a militarized response to immigrant children fleeing oppression in neighboring countries.

I assume it's not hoping for Shiites will leave to return to Shiite - controlled countries, because the targets aren't recent immigrants.

Instead of developing policies aimed at making immigration work for the country as a whole, however, the response of the Westminster political class over recent years has been to debate caps on immigration and give credence to the philosophical position that immigrants are a drain on society instead of net contributors.

It would mean adopting what a recent YouGov poll revealed was the favoured solution of about half of Ukip supporters of «encouraging» lawfully settled immigrants (together with their British - born children) to return to their country of origin.

The sanctuary cities debate has surged to the top of the agenda for states and localities across the country since November's presidential election, and it has been amplified in recent weeks amid a perceived crackdown on undocumented immigrants by the Trump administration.

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.

WASHINGTON POST — Mar 8 — Sociologists and demographers are just beginning to study how the children of immigrants who have flowed into the country in recent years will date and marry.

And the model minority stereotype entirely disregards the experiences of recent immigrants who fail to graduate from high school as they falter in an unfamiliar country.

In fact, prior research has shown that refugees, and recent immigrants in general, are more likely to settle in neighborhoods with larger shares of immigrants from their country of origin.

Like many other Western European countries, especially those who are members of the European Union (EU), Britain has been overwhelmed by immigrants in recent years, particularly since 2004 when ten additional countries joined the EU, giving citizens of these countries the right to work anywhere within the EU (see sidebar).

Arriving a mere 160 years too late for the gold rush, Stuart Thomas is the most recent Cornish immigrant to California's gold country.

Her work also appeared in numerous group exhibitions including: Beyond the Border: Art by Recent Immigrants, Bronx Museum; Asia / America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, Asia Society, New York; Olympiad of Art (in conjunction with the 24th Olympics), National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea; 2nd Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan; La Bienal de la Habana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Habana, Cuba; Art for Africa, traveling exhibition to Oslo, Cologne, Algiers, London and Rome; UNESCO: 40 Years, 40 Countries, 40 Artists, traveling exhibition to 15 museums around the world; Filipino Artists Abroad, Metropolitan Museum of Manila; and At Home and Abroad: 21 Contemporary Filipino Artists, traveling exhibition to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, among others.

Perhaps more tellingly, studies of recent immigrants find that the first generation has risks of reproductive health issues similar to those in the country of origin; but in the second generation, the risks approximate the rates in their new home country.

The parties were recent immigrants to Canada from Iraq, possibly refugees, and Justice Pazaratz goes to some length to point out that neither of them had ever worked in Canada or paid taxes in this country.

During the boom many of these workers may have been recent immigrants who have returned to their home countries during the recession and the slow economic recovery.