Sentences with phrase «supporting undocumented workers»

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Those who defend the right to life of the weakest among us must be equally visible in support of the quality of life of the powerless among us: the old and the young, the hungry and the homeless, the undocumented immigrant and the unemployed worker... Consistency means we can't have it both ways» (quoted by Mark Shield on CNN.com, May 7).

The Fort Worth lawmaker also faced questions about local Texas issues like water rights and her support of allowing drivers licenses for undocumented workers.

«Access to drivers licenses for undocumented workers and raising the welfare grant above the poverty line are policies that all working people should support because most of us will need public support at some point in our lives,» said Hawkins.

Astorino in Albany on Tuesday said he supported a version of the Dream Fund, which would solicit private donations to provide tuition assistance to the children of undocumented workers.

It was vintage Cuomo, beginning with a mention of his Italian immigrant grandparents and their experience, then covering a variety of state government and political initiatives on education, minimum wage, M / WBE contracting and undocumented worker protections and concluding with a fierce declaration of support for diversity and the integral role of immigrants in seeking and sustaining the «American Dream.»

The filmmakers cunningly reconstitute supporting characters from Twain's novels, so that the slave Jim is now an undocumented worker named Jorge (Daniel Edward Mora), while the fearsome Injun Joe (Stephen Lang, continuing his impressive evolution into this generation's Warren Oates) has become a psycho paleface who assumed Native American attire and nomenclature because he «identifies with the culture and aesthetic.»