Sentences with phrase «years as an immigrant»

I live from 3 years as an immigrant in montreal and search a relation because I did not give with me any familly.

«The reason I want to buy milk from a cow,» you explain, «is because I am trying to recapture the simple times of my childhood, particularly after the intricate dance that I have undertaken for the last twenty years as an immigrant in America.»

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Last year, Greenblatt's network was one of several major companies to officially cut ties with Trump in the wake of the offensive remarks Trump made as he first announced his candidacy, when he called Mexican immigrants «rapists.»

Under the Obama - era program undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as minors can apply for a renewable two - year work permit that would protect them from deportation.

For the last seven years he has served full - time as president of Cristo Rey Brooklyn HS, which educates minority students, mostly immigrants or first - generation Americans of modest means.

«We are a nation of immigrants whose diverse backgrounds, ideas and points of view have helped us build and invent as a nation for over 240 years.»

As a 14 - year - old immigrant, Sol Orwell turned to the Internet as an outleAs a 14 - year - old immigrant, Sol Orwell turned to the Internet as an outleas an outlet.

Eight years ago Texas saw undocumented immigrants as a positive for its state economy.

In recent years, immigrant rights protests shrank as groups diverged and shifted their focus on voter registration and lobbying.

Our report recommends that Canada consider raising its target to as many as 400,000 immigrants a year.

This coveted award recognizes and celebrates the untold stories of Canadian immigrants who have made a significant contribution to Canada - all the more poignant this year as we celebrate Canada 150.

The 2017 awards will be extra special this year as winners will be announced in time to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, a momentous occasion in the history of a nation built by immigrants...

Kwanhyun Park, the 18 - year - old son of Korean immigrants, spent four years at Beverly Hills High School earning the straight As... Seguir leyendo >

Celebrating its 10th anniversary today as well, TRIEC has long championed innovative solutions to immigrant employment in the GTA, the type of solutions highlighted by this year's IS Award winners.

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.

Alabama's immigration law, still unsettled, «makes it illegal for a Catholic priest to baptize, hear the confession of, celebrate the anointing of the sick with, or preach the word of God to, an undocumented immigrant,» as the Archbishop of Mobile, Thomas Rodi, said last year when he joined a suit against the law.

The conceit that law is not a business, or only incidentally so, seems connected with the efforts of elite lawyers in the early years of this century to distance themselves from the buccaneer - founders of their own firms and from «hustling» immigrant lawyers, as well as to assert their independence from their own clients.

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.

In his new autobiography, An American Son, available Tuesday, the Florida Republican candidly discusses the three years he spent as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints and lauds the Utah - based faith for helping his Cuban - immigrant mother and him when they moved from Miami to Las Vegas when he was a grade - schooler.

The moral theology that I was taught and that for some years I myself taught reflected the immigrant Catholic community Kennedy described as well as the ecclesiology that nourished it.

Alabama's immigration law, still unsettled, «makes it illegal for a Catholic priest to baptise, hear the confession of, celebrate the anointing of the sick with, or preach the word of God to, an undocumented immigrant,» as the Archbishop of Mobile, Thomas Rodi, said last year when he joined a suit against the law.

For example, for the first hundred years or so Orthodox immigrants to America took the presence of pews and organs in churches as significant cultural clues.

Years later, when I started teaching American history, I would use Frankenmuth to indicate to my students that the then - prevalent image of America as a melting pot did not capture the whole truth of the nation's immigrant experience.

The first year and a half after the Hijrah were entirely devoted to purely pacific and constructive activities, to the development of religious and social institutions such as fasting, almsgiving, fraternization of the immigrants with the original inhabitants, agreements between tribes, and the like.

The year before BFW persuaded Congress to make food stamps available to 270,000 young, disabled and elderly immigrants who, for no good reason, were among almost 1 million legal immigrants who lost food stamps as a result of the dramatic «96 changes in the welfare laws.

TELL THAT TO AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT... SINCE OBAMA HAS DEPORTED TWICE AS MANY ILLEGALS IN THREE YEARS AS BUSH DID IN EIGHT!

«We've been setting our sights on how to get to the second generation buyer, children of immigrants who over the past couple of years have been going to retailers such as Safeway, Kroger's and Whole Foods.

Anything DMV related generally serves as a flashpoint for the GOP, but in this case, the Republicans might do well to recall that their NYC mayoral candidate, Joe Lhota, not only endorsed the IDs - for - immigrants idea during the campaign last year, but also said he supported the concept of letting them get driver's licenses — though he didn't plan to push that in Albany, should he have managed to get elected.

For that reason, and because of the multitude of community projects that I have been responsible for, such as: construction of low - income housing; repair of train stations; re-pavement of streets; Implementation of charter schools; services for senior citizens, immigrants, non-medallion taxi car drivers, and many more initiatives, I believe that the residents of the 32nd Senatorial District in Bronx County have been well represented during the past 15 years,» he said.

«New York, like many states, has served as home to millions of immigrants who over the years have shaped our State's and our nation's economy, culture and strength.

Section 203, as amended by sections 111 and 121 of this Act, is further amended by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection: «(c) DIVERSITY IMMIGRANTS - «(1) IN GENERAL - Except as provided in paragraph (2), aliens subject to the worldwide level specified in section 201 (e) for diversity immigrants shall be allotted visas each fiscal year as fIMMIGRANTS - «(1) IN GENERAL - Except as provided in paragraph (2), aliens subject to the worldwide level specified in section 201 (e) for diversity immigrants shall be allotted visas each fiscal year as fimmigrants shall be allotted visas each fiscal year as follows:...

A 1953 United Nations recommendation referred to the definition of «permanent immigrants» as non-residents (both nationals and aliens) arriving with the intention to remain for a period exceeding a year and of «permanent emigrants» as residents (nationals and aliens) intending to remain abroad for a period exceeding one year (United Nations, 1953).

Representative Nancy Pelosi, the 77 - year - old House Democratic leader, took the House floor at 10:04 a.m. yesterday, intent on speaking about the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers.

I do find it completely bizarre that, since I was born as a citizen here in 1974, a national newspaper is proposing that my children, born here in the last 5 years, are «immigrants» and somehow less British than their friends.

Khojasteh, who was born in Iran, and moved to the U.S. with his parents after the Islamic Revolution and during the early years of the Iran - Iraq War, says he and his wife, Anjella, also a child of immigrants from Iran, «are blessed to be products of that long - talked - about «American Dream» — raised by parents with nothing more than hard work, determination and a dream to provide their children as much possibility as possible.»

«New York, like many states, has served as home to millions of immigrants who over the years have shaped our state's and our nation's economy, culture and strength,» Paterson said.

A Portuguese immigrant, the 53 - year - old Carvalho has served as the superindendent of Miami - Dade, the nation's fourth - largest school system, since 2008.

Some years ago, Étienne Balibar wrote of immigrants as «today's proletariat» (2004: 50).

Today, President Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program instituted by President Obama, which gave illegal immigrants who came to America as children two - year work...

Instead of developing policies aimed at making immigration work for the country as a whole, however, the response of the Westminster political class over recent years has been to debate caps on immigration and give credence to the philosophical position that immigrants are a drain on society instead of net contributors.

The political defiance that made Joe Arpaio popular and seemingly untouchable as metro Phoenix's sheriff of 24 years ultimately led to his downfall yesterday as he was convicted of a crime for ignoring a U.S. court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants.

The 63 - year - old also has been a longtime critic of President Donald Trump, and had been part of several efforts to push back against some of his actions in the White House, like the rescinding of protection for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

KCS» senior centers and homebound meals programs were initiated many years ago from seed funding that was given through the Queens Borough President's Office, and we are always so humbled and honored by generous donations such as this that remind us how important our immigrant communities are to this City and Borough.

The IDC had made a college affordability plan that covered undocumented immigrants a top priority this year, but didn't deliver as the Senate GOP refused to budget in its opposition.

It was just two years ago that, as a prospective appointee to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, Kirsten Gillibrand essentially had to audition for liberal interest groups wary of her for her opposition to strict gun control and amnesty for illegal immigrants, the very positions that had made her so popular in her conservative House district upstate.

Me too as well, (now unemployed for 6 years actively and seeking work for 4 with severely disabled wife,) I'm not an immigrant but, «withholding in - work and out - of - work benefits from migrants for two years, until they have paid into the system,» what a complete load of Tory Bollocks.

President Obama chose confrontation over conciliation as he asserted the powers of the Oval Office to reshape the nation's immigration system and all but dared members of next year's Republican - controlled Congress to reverse his actions on behalf of millions of immigrants.

At 9 a.m., immigrant communities, elected officials, and community supporters and allies will gather to stand in support of Riaz Talukder, a Bangladeshi immigrant who was brought to this country as a minor and has lived and worked here for 36 years, and now faces deportation, 26 Federal Plaza, Federal Building steps, Lafayette Street side, Manhattan.

Trump said he is open to a path to citizenship after 10 to 12 years for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, days after rejecting a bipartisan plan with that as its centerpiece.

«One hundred years ago, when Irish immigrants were coming to America, my grandmother among them, they were too often characterized as «drunks.»