Sentences with phrase «thousands of immigrants in»

«This is a strike against the thousands of immigrants in California currently incarcerated in often deplorable conditions, in one of the state's 10 immigration jails.

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.

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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.

In a tweet Friday morning, Trump said he was «considering a VETO» because the proposal did not extend protections for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants or fully fund his proposed border wall.

Ruby Polanco, the Honduras - born founder of Ruby Makeup Academy, based in Temple City, California, came to America like hundreds of thousands of other immigrants — she was brought here as a child.

Since 1990, foreign investors from China, Canada and the Middle East have invested more than $ 6.8 billion in American businesses, been awarded 29,000 U.S. Visas, and created thousands of American jobs through the EB - 5 Immigrant Investor Program.

During the «Day without Latinxs & Immigrants,» thousands of workers struck and thousands of students were absent from school Over 100 businesses closed during the march (partial list here) Photos here Video here Over ten thousand people marched in Waukesha today as part of a Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants statewide general strike.

He was often recognized as an outstanding local hero in the first stop for thousands of Cuban refugees, an area that is now home to thousands of Central American immigrants who also seek a better life in the United States.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

Erected in 1906, it commemorates the thousand lives lost, most of them women and children from German immigrant families on an early - summer outing, when the steamer General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River.

Or maybe simply ask how the huge tribes of the descendants of Hebrew immigrants supposedly built giant cities, lived in them for a thousand years, yet managed to leave not a single scrap of archaeological evidence behind?

Several of those players spent their formative years in Les Ulis, an isolated project of mid-20th Century tower blocks, without its own train station, where thousands of immigrant families from Africa and Arabia arrived in the»50s,»60s and»70s.

2001 — 2002 FRAC and anti-hunger and immigrant allies obtain further restoration of benefits for hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants, significantly improved access to benefits for working families, and other important improvements in the Food Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2002.

The government should allow hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants living in the UK to become British citizens, Boris Johnson has insisted, as he launched a stinging attack on the government's immigration and asylum policies.

Citing President Trump's «racially charged language,» a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled that a lawsuit seeking to preserve a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation could continue.

Housing, hundreds of thousands of Americans are homeless by foreclosure, and immigrants are buying up the foreclosures in America, say something about it.

«Thousands of immigrants who had their trust abused and their money stolen by these organizations deserve to receive compensation, and now they can,» New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a press release.

The committee began its work in 2016 as an advisory group to facilitate better communications between our immigrant communities and Erie County government, and has helped our community to lead the way for the resettlement of thousands of refugees to WNY.

The two Democrats say ending the program allowing hundreds of thousands of immigrants to remain in the United States is cruel and unwarranted.

«Thousands of immigrants who had their trust abused and their money stolen by these organizations deserve to receive compensation, and now they can,» Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a press release.

At 5 a.m., Make the Road New York, immigrant youth and families from New York and Long Island depart for Washington, DC, to joint thousands from across the country in calling for the passage of» «a clean Dream Act.»

Cuomo warned congressional Democrats to «exercise extreme caution» in negotiating a deal with Trump aimed at restoring an Obama - era program that has shielded thousands of immigrant students and young adults in the U.S. without documentation from deportation.

Hector Figueroa, president of 32BJ SEIU — which represents thousands of immigrant workers — said that Schneiderman is proving that New York «welcomes DREAMers,» and also praised Cuomo for his role in the effort.

In 2012, taking advantage of new district lines that had extended the district beyond Rangel's native Harlem and into the Bronx, and an influx of immigrants and gentrifiers into what was once the capital of black America, Adriano Espaillat, a hard - charging Dominican state lawmaker, came within a thousand votes of beating Rangel in the Democratic primarIn 2012, taking advantage of new district lines that had extended the district beyond Rangel's native Harlem and into the Bronx, and an influx of immigrants and gentrifiers into what was once the capital of black America, Adriano Espaillat, a hard - charging Dominican state lawmaker, came within a thousand votes of beating Rangel in the Democratic primarin the Democratic primary.

Republicans and Democrats have been trying to reach a budget agreement that saves DACA, the Obama - era initiative that provides protected legal status to thousands of young immigrants living in the country illegally.

The Trump administration is planning an increase in federal immigration jails across the country for the thousands of additional undocumented immigrants its agents are arresting.

Samuel Pierre, a Brooklyn state Senate candidate who pleaded guilty to swindling immigrants out of thousands of dollars, claims in campaign literature that he's the victim because his case left him «shaken.»

De Blasio said that the DACA repeal means hundreds of thousands of immigrants nationwide, and more than 30,000 in New York City «now have their lives in limbo.»

That policy position «puts thousands of immigrants needlessly in the crosshairs of ICE,» Menchaca said.

To do this, it sounds like he had good Whitehall source, who was able to provide him with true information about the employment of thousands of illegal immigrants in Whitehall and one in parliament, an internal ministerial letter about the dangers of rising crime caused by the recession and a list of potential Labour rebel MPs over the anti terror laws.

When the BBC's Nick Robinson asked the Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry on the Marr Show «Are you saying that you don't want to see checks when people arrive in hospital for treatment that might cost tens of thousands of pounds — you don't want to see whether they're in fact illegal immigrants?»

A pair of Staten Island GOP lawmakers have lodged a lawsuit against Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration to prevent him from purging the records of his municipal identification program at the end of the year — records believed to contain the information of thousands of undocumented immigrants, and which advocates fear could wind up in the hands of President - elect Donald Trump.

One of the issues that led to the shutdown was Democrats insistence that Republicans include a path to legal status for hundreds of thousands of immigrant youth brought to the country as children in the spending bill.

But in the House, some Democrats are unhappy that the pact does not include protections for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, and some conservative Republicans oppose the additional spending.

NIH is funding researchers to look at risk behavior in many communities: Hispanic immigrant men who live thousands of miles from their wives, teens who cruise the Internet for pornography, Thai and Vietnamese women who work in San Francisco brothels.

The amount of money that the AND receives from the food industry is fairly insignificant in terms of the AND's overall budget, but the work that thousands of registered dietitians are doing in under - served communities, with children and families, with the elderly, with immigrants in helping improve health is worth billions of dollars in terms of health care savings.

Local school officials in the handful of states where most of the immigrants have settled are trying to set up adult - education classes for thousands more than they coped with last year, and have waiting lists of thousands more.

Chartering empowers thousands of African American families to create a vibrant new public - school sector in Harlem; it liberates a group of Minnesota teachers to start and run their own schools; and it provides a Teach for America alum the freedom to start a network of college - prep charters serving Mexican immigrants in Texas.

Tens of thousands of Latino students helped fuel rallies across the country last week against federal proposals to crack down on immigrants who are in the United States illegally.

If immigrants are targeted, children whose parents are immigrants or who are immigrants themselves will live in fear of deportation.36 If Medicaid is cut, not only will it increase the number of uninsured children without access to needed medical care, but it will also put the jobs of thousands of school nurses, psychologists, and physical therapists at risk.37 This would hurt health outcomes for many children, especially those with disabilities.

CCSA will continue to advocate for the tens of thousands of immigrant families in our charter school community.

Environmental Charter Schools is deeply disappointed in this action, which places hundreds of thousands of immigrant students benefiting from our public education system in jeopardy.

At the time, marginalized American farmers «westering» for cheap land in the Northwest, religious zealots, and just dreamers in search of adventure were flooding across the Kansas frontier, and in peak years as many as fifty thousand covered wagon immigrants spent the summer crossing the Oregon Trail and its two main tributaries, the California and Mormon trails.

It is an epic journey, one thousands of immigrant children make each year to find their mothers in the United States.

[63] The Pederson (Pedersen) family, who donated the farmland in Thousand Oaks, were among many Scandinavian immigrants populating the hills of Thousand Oaks.

This lighthouse has been in use since 1848 and was a signal for thousands of immigrants at sea that land was near after many months at sea.

Exploring two diverse locales, this duo of exhibitions investigates contrasting everyday experiences Horesh's (b. 1975) work records the reality of life in Neve Sha'anan, a neighbourhood in Israel home to thousands of immigrants and refugees, whilst Bush's (b. 1987) series explores notions of identity in the west, using pop culture and Americana to reconstruct established tropes.

Thousands of immigrants and supporters join the Defend DACA March in Los Angeles in September to oppose the President Trump's ordered end to DACA protections.

Having adjudicated tens of thousands of visas as a consular officer in Beijing and Buenos Aires, Russell can also advise clients on issues such as non-immigrant and immigrant visas, investor visas and employment petitions.

Each year, they provide advice and legal services to thousands of LGBTQ and HIV - positive immigrants seeking refuge, fair treatment, and freedom in the United States with a remarkable 99 % success rate.