Sentences with phrase «to be immigrants»

My students are immigrants from over 40 different countries.

Her most recent projects have included diverse populations of families who are immigrants or are limited English proficient.

When I went back and thought that through, I started to realize that's the strength of being an immigrant family and an immigrant child.

My parents were immigrants who didn't graduate from high school, and my local neighborhood school was low performing.

Being an immigrant with little resources became the driving force in my life, particularly my career.

If students are immigrants or English - language learners, what can they teach their American - born classmates about other cultures?

The vast majority of Success students are black or Latino, many are immigrants, and some are undocumented.

About 50 percent are immigrants or children of immigrants.

They can become citizens and then they stop being immigrants.

With 6.8 million foreign - born, about one in five residents are immigrants.

An immigrant to one member of a common travel area is an immigrant to all of them.

His mother and two of his three wives were immigrants.

In addition, nearly half are immigrants or children of immigrants.

On a broader level, though, being an immigrant daughter meant feeling perpetually alien.

Once 51 % of the voting population are immigrants or the children of immigrants, one can only imagine that political pressure to increase immigration will increase.

She estimated that 70 % of the restaurant's entire staff are immigrants.

Like many tech giants, a large proportion of its employees are immigrants.

The tide of immigration increased, and more of the poor are immigrants «passing through» poverty, soon to be poor no longer.

There is no evidence the attacker was an immigrant, but even if he was, there is no way to stop these sorts of events short of stopping all immigration.

The only other group to receive such a vicious press are immigrants.

Despite the drawbacks of being an immigrant scientific worker, there are still many reasons to consider taking a scientific position abroad.

At first, I thought this was going to be an immigrant novel, and it kind of is, but that's more of a background element.

Both the husband and wife in this case are immigrants.

Are you an immigrant job seeker struggling to land a job in your new country, or from a distance?

One in five early childhood educators are immigrants; threatening their security undermines the nation's child care system.

Permanent migrants are immigrants who have acquired permanent residency rights.

My parents were immigrants who had nothing but believed in hard work and integrity and their example has set me up for life.

And they live in diverse urban environments, so they tend to know people who are immigrants or international travelers.

About a quarter of these students were low - income, and seven percent were immigrants.

If Audiard had wanted, Dheepan could have been a much softer, more directly emotive drama about the difficulties of being an immigrant in an inhospitable, unfamiliar world.

In a move that seems both narratively practical and winkingly pointed, Fantastic Beasts is an immigrant story from its first scene, as British - born - and - bred Scamander arrives at 1926 Ellis Island and amusingly makes it through customs without declaring to the Muggle there what he's really packing.

So, what Baker et al. are suggesting is that predation by cats may be extensive enough to deplete populations of certain bird species at their study site, such that at least some of the birds observed there were immigrants from nearby habitat.

As an emerging curator, Xavier questions, how do artists react through art to their background whether being an immigrant, a person of color, queer, woman... part of a marginalized group of people?

It was another story Politifact said was false, as only one of her grandparents was an immigrant.

No more are immigrants coming by only boats!

In her latest book, Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship, Rachel Buff explores m Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship, Today in Milwaukee

«My mother and father in law were immigrants here directly from Ireland back in 1966,» said Sen. Terrence Murphy, a Republican.

Asian Americans are the immigrants or their descendants from nations in the Far East, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.

Her father was an immigrant from Russia who operated a local grocery and liquor store.

Duterte, whose grandfather was an immigrant from China's Xiamen province, has sought to underscore the closeness of his country and China and the necessity of improved relations with Beijing for Manila.

In Hong Kong, he helped manage a massive flow of would - be immigrants hoping to make it to Canada before the territory was handed back to the Chinese.

Over half of New Yorkers are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and the city hosts many thriving immigrant churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic, but Bishop Rimbo's focus — at least in this profile — is on the white middle class, the traditional constituency for mainline churches.

Part of it is the job market and the other is immigrant parents» push for their kids to attend post-secondary school and achieve more than they were able to in their countries of origin.

It seems that the people who most appreciate living in Canada are immigrants, especially immigrants from totalitarian regimes wherein individual rights and freedoms are submerged by all - knowing elites who are floated into power and maintained there by military / police might.

Surely at no other time have so many key artists been New York natives, and many more were immigrants or the children of immigrants.