Sentences with phrase «with poor immigrants»

As I go to court with poor immigrants, visit their children in schools and translate for them in job interviews, I am always stmck by how much social capital I have by simply being able to speak English well and to work as a professional in the community.

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«I grew up very poor with a single mom as Latino immigrants, and saw how hard my mom worked to make healthy choices.

I grew up some what poor until the age of 12, my parents where European immigrants that came to Canada with not a penny to their name and worked hard.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

98 % of nuns and sisters do wonderful work with the poor, the homeless, the immigrant and broken - heart.

In this last connection, and again with an eye toward immigrants and the poor, the GOP would be wise to strengthen its reputation as the party of community and order.

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.

Our task now is to support the good in Mr. Trump's policies and to resist the bad — and thereby prove to our countrymen that the meaning of «pro-life» begins with the unborn child, but in embracing the poor, the elderly and the immigrant, it never ends there.

After all, she was a poor girl in an immigrant family with a great deal of financial and medical troubles, for all their pre-Raphaelite pretensions.

So I hope that as he flies home on September 27, the Holy Father will understand that American Catholics share every ounce of his passion for Christian service and human dignity — beginning with the unborn child, but not ending there; including the poor and the immigrant, but reaching from conception to natural death... and confirming that the «joy of the Gospel» comes from a Gospel of Life.

Curious if as an immigrant from a country rife with poverty, poor education, environmental and land management issues she sees the irony?

As Christopher Caldwell outlines in a Weekly Standard essay («The Migrants of Calais,» March 7, 2016), the winners in the global economy share economic interests with immigrants from the poor world.

Leon said that, with God's blessing, we can see that all of us - «whether brown, black or white, male or female, first generation immigrant American or Daughter of the American Revolution, gay or straight, rich or poor» - are made in God's image.

I live in a poor and working class neighborhood with many new immigrants, and never run into this attitude.

The so - called «racist vans», which drove around poor, mixed areas of London with some pretty ugly Children of Men - style demands for illegal immigrants to «go home», recently forced Twitter into a spasm of liberal outrage.

I say to them, start with me, Andrew Cuomo, the grandson of Andrea and Immacolata Cuomo, Italian poor immigrants,» he tells a roomful of people who are mostly immigrants.

But for many women - as well as people of color, immigrants, the working poor, other marginalized communities, and anyone with work & personal responsibilities - it's still nearly impossible to get to the polls.

The spot will focus on the Gristedes CEO's upbringing as a poor immigrant and will contain other biographical information to help him connect with outer - borough voters.

Menchaca, in an interview with Gay City News last month, emphasized that his work as a councilmember is focused on empowering a poor community with a large immigrant population, both Latino and Asian, that has long been neglected by the powers that be.

Still, faced with large numbers of immigrants from poorer countries, immigration officials in richer nations have increasingly been turning to X-rays as a «scientific» way to resolve age disputes.

Poor performance by immigrants on IQ tests had nothing to do with ethnicity and everything to do with poverty.

Undocumented immigrants tend to live in areas with poor quality housing, intermittent garbage pickup and impure water, creating havens for infections.

In the shadow of the attacks, the inscription at her base no longer seems to address immigrants but rather speaks directly to New Yorkers who now find themselves disenfranchised and suffocating with disease: «Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.»

The story of Alias Grace follows Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), a poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James McDermott (Kerr Logan), was convicted of the brutal murders of their employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery (Anna Paquin), in 1843.

Based on the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name, Alias Grace follows Grace Marks, a poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James

Making matters worse for immigrant children is the fact that many enter poor school districts with insufficient English language learner courses and certified teachers.

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

But the district, one of the largest in the country, has seen explosive growth in the number of poor and immigrant student it serves, and passage rates for students with limited English proficiency slipped.

But with millions of Catholics today firmly rooted in the middle class and above, it's also easy to forget that 50, 75, and 100 years ago, America's urban poor were often recent Catholic immigrants facing many of the same obstacles as today's impoverished inner - city families.

Our leaders seek to solve the problem of the poor by blaming the teachers and schools that seek to serve them, calling the deepening levels of poverty an «excuse,» rewarding schools that keep out and push out the highest need students, and threatening those who work with new immigrant students still learning English and the growing number of those who are homeless, without health care and without food.

What would happen if I had two middle schools in my suburban town and one had a lottery — and one didn't and the one with the lottery ended up with the students who are less poor, face less language issues, don't come from immigrant, have fewer special education students....

Originally the parishes and schools were created to serve poor, largely immigrant communities from Europe, and they continue to do the same type of work with poor communities, though these look different demographically today, and may not even be Catholic.

Many argue that poor students, immigrants, or students with disabilities will suffer under high - stakes testing environments (McNeil, 2000; Meier, 2002; Reyes and Rorrer, 2001; Stecher and Hamilton, 2002).

Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis David Bezmozgis» Natasha: and Other Stories, seven stories about growing up a poor Russian Jewish immigrant in Toronto are so Russian in tone they should be read with a glass of tea at hand and a cube of sugar between one's teeth.

David Bezmozgis» Natasha: and Other Stories, seven stories about growing up a poor Russian Jewish immigrant in Toronto, are so Russian in tone they should be read with a glass of tea at hand and a cube of sugar between one's teeth.

The year is 1924, and the remote mines of Appalachia have filled with families like Emma's, poor immigrant laborers building new lives half a world away from the island of Sicily.

Through short, diary - like chapters she brings us up close and personal with her life and the very real problems of being a poor immigrant living in an effective ghetto, surrounded by poverty, bigotry, racism and misogyny - so we can get some sense of how overwhelming it is to survive in such an environment, let alone to dream of finding a better life.

I also grew up in a poor valley region in California where we have a lot agriculture and huge Hmong immigrant population so I went to school with a lot of Hmong people (little known by Americans - as there are mostly Chinese, Thai, Korean people in the bigger cities) and got to go to a few food / culture festivals and see their beautiful embroidery -

The relative ease with which the gallery has greenlit this «futile gesture» and the tone deafness with which the artist creates his poor facsimile belie a deep ignorance of what's at stake in immigrant communities of color and our efforts to cement humane, sustainable living conditions.

58 Consequently, many of them come to law school saddled with a proclivity to demand quick answers and instant gratification.59 In fact, a good deal of research supports the idea that the Internet is making all of us not just poor researchers, but shallow thinkers and cursory readers as well.60 This is true not only of the technology «natives,» but also of the immigrants.61

students worked with The Woman's Fund of Miami - Dade County, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of local women and girls; the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a community organization championing the rights of Florida migrant farm workers; the ACLU of Florida; Legal Services of Greater Miami, which provides civil legal services for the poor in Miami - Dade and Monroe County; the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization comprised of community lawyers who collaborate with community organizers and low - income communities of color; Catholic Charities Legal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-profit.

Many worry that by allowing great amounts of immigrants from poor and war - torn countries, we are «harbouring» terrorists or providing them with a safe place to plan their attacks.

Speaking of race, writes Imani Perry in Race and Rioting: «Yesterday was the first time that I heard race or immigrant status mentioned on broadcast television with respect to the recent uprisings and protests occurring in poor and working class suburbs across France.

Avvy Go, Clinic Director of the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic, Shalini Konanur, Clinic Director of the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario, and Debbie Douglas, Executive Director of the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants, released an opinion editorial in the Toronto Star speaking to the importance of saving Bill 164, which proposes to extend of human rights protection in Ontario to the poor, people with precarious immigration status, and people with police records.

In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant families27 and families with low socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant parents in parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a high dropout rate of immigrant parents are associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born parents in Sweden showed that Somali parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their parenting behaviours.

Drawing from the studies on international immigrants, we hypothesise that the IM children would also have poor health access, and their service utilisation is positively associated with their parents» acculturation.