Sentences with phrase «when immigrant communities»

The four candidates now being backed by MRA, in statements accompanying the announcement, noted the importance of MRA's advocacy at a time when immigrant communities face a volatile political climate at the national level.

When immigrant communities are undercounted, we lose out significantly on federal funding for our schools, roads, health care services, housing and as we did in the 2010 Census, we lose elected representation in congress.

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He said having shelters in Massachusetts would have no impact on town budgets and when an immigrant child moves into a community, he said, «it's just as if your cousin moved to town.»

Although many immigrant entrepreneurs choose to cater to a community they are familiar with, «I think success comes when you try to go out of your comfort zone,» Jain says.

When Jobe launched New Life Community Church 25 years ago, the Midway neighborhood where his main campus is located was primarily populated by descendants of Polish, Lithuanian and Italian immigrants.

He receives support from the immigrant community he had sought to avoid when he embarked for London, wishing to conquer the heights of British culture.

«At a time when President Trump is declaring a war on women, the LGBT communities and our immigrant communities, it is imperative that we unite around issues that will protect New Yorkers and their rights,» the letter signed by all eight members of the IDC and delivered to Felder's office.

This offers some support to Hopkins» politicised places hypothesis, which says that in communities which are undergoing demographic changes at the time when salient national rhetoric politicizes immigration, immigrants can quickly become the targets of local political hostility.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been saying all the right worlds when it comes to standing up to President Trump's recent immigration - related executive orders, but one advocate for New York's immigrant community says he would like to see a little less talk and a little more action.

«This is a false economy, not just in terms of integrating immigrant communities but also when providing translation and other official services.»

Mutual benefit societies have been particularly important in immigrant communities in the United States at times when the governmental social safety net was weak.

(«The overwhelming sentiment in my district is that we should not use taxpayer resources to fund higher education for undocumented immigrants at a time when our state's universities and community colleges are already woefully underfunded,» O'Brien explained in a statement after the vote.)

«Rescinding a program that has done so much for so many young people is really disgusting, when you think about what this administration has said and done toward various immigrant communities since January,» said Carlene Pinto, an advocate with the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC).

«At a time when some are proposing mass deportations and building walls, our immigrant communities have been living in fear.

The most recent nod came early Friday, when Make the Road Action — a grass - roots immigrant rights group that receives ample funding from labor — said it would back Ms. Nixon because of «her strong progressive platform and her commitment to passing and implementing the full protections and supports that our communities need and deserve.»

The plaza has become home to a variety of festivals and cultural events throughout the year and it serves as a central gathering point for immigrant communities when disaster strikes in their home countries.

«At a time when New York's immigrants are under attack, this funding will go a long way to supporting projects that will protect, defend and empower our communities across the state,» said Steven Choi, executive director, New York Immigration Coalition.

When a half - Chechen, half - Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg's Islamic community, laying claim to his father's ill gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true identity — oppressed victim or destruction - bent extremist?

When a half - Chechen, half - Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg's Islamic community, laying claim to his father's ill gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true identity - oppressed victim or destruction - bent extremist?

When I was in the classroom, I taught in an immigrant community with many undocumented students, and I developed a passion for working with them and a desire for helping to enact change on their behalf.

When an immigrant family is harassed in the community, Red is motivated to act.

When she moved from Greenwich Village to Spanish Harlem in 1938, she turned her attention to the local immigrant community, many of whom lived on the margins of society and were afflicted by the poverty of the Depression years.

There was a time when New York's Lower East Side was synonymous with crime, drug - fueled desperation, and a clashing mosaic of put - upon immigrant communities — a heady climate that provided the fodder for author Richard Price's novel «Lush Life.»

For example, when the artist began living with five undocumented immigrants in Corona, Queens, she became deeply concerned with the obstacles facing New York's immigrant communities.

At a moment when South Asian communities, women, and immigrant neighborhoods like the Lower East Side are being targeted by an evidence - averse administration, this exhibition reflects on the complex global and personal histories that shape conflicting views of our contemporary moment.

She has co-authored «Representing Survivors of Human Trafficking: A Promising Practices Handbook,» 1st edition published in 2010 and 2nd edition in 2014 by Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), and has authored a Georgetown Immigration Law Journal article titled «Increasing Law Students Effectiveness When Representing Traumatized Clients: A Case Study of the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center.»

The effectiveness of this model of sustained nurse home visiting for families from immigrant communities, the impact of nurse home visiting when delivered as a component within a comprehensive child and family health and development service system, 10 11 and the efficacy for older, multiparous compared with teenage first - time mothers, remains largely unexplored.

If criteria are not culturally sensitive, then a child who is reinforced to behave in X-manner by his or her immigrant parents, when X is viewed, within the larger cultural community as inappropriate or reflective of abnormality, all manner of difficulty may arise.