Sentences with phrase «young immigrants facing»

Congress is careening toward the first shutdown in more than four years, with Republicans and Democrats at a seemingly intractable impasse over government funding and the fates of young immigrants facing deportation.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's protest was designed to draw attention to the plight of the young immigrants facing deportation known as Dreamers.

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This week, the Evangelical Immigration Table launched a new prayer campaign for dreamers — young immigrants now facing deportation because the Trump administration has ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)...

Some of Tenney's opponents said they came away surprised at the color they sometimes flashed — particularly when she spoke in support of the so - called dreamers — young immigrants who face deportation if DACA is rolled back, as the president has proposed — and her work with refugees.

Immigrants expressed fear that more than 800,000 young people who were brought to the United States as children would face deportation if DACA is cancelled.

Meanwhile there are flashbacks of young Louis (C.J. Valleroy) as a poor Italian immigrant growing up in Torrance, Southern California, where he was a juvenile delinquent and faced bigoted taunts from the local kids.

Both films deliver the essential hope we all need right now when faced with everything from climate deniers dismissing record breaking hurricanes to the cruelty of an administration rejecting DACA and threatening to expel thousands of young, productive immigrants, among other daily horrors.

Even qualifying for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — which gives young immigrants relief from deportation and the opportunity to work legally — they still face an uphill battle, said Roberto Gonzales, assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

«Dreamer» Shares Her Drive with Other Immigrant Students Arizona Daily Star, 8/29/15 «Even qualifying for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — which gives young immigrants relief from deportation and the opportunity to work legally — they still face an uphill battle, said Roberto Gonzales, assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

That's the question that millions of young people, new immigrants and people recovering from bankruptcy face as they try to build (or rebuild) their credit history in the hopes of one day qualifying for a rewards credit card, auto loan or mortgage.

Parties abound and the ACLU pairs up with the Standard Hotel for pop - up shop selling products artist - designed products to raise awareness about the deportation threats faced by young immigrants.

Our comparative, multivocal ethnographic study of teachers in five U.S. cities in a number of early childhood settings suggests that immigrant teachers often experience difficulty applying their cultural knowledge to the education and care of young children of immigrants because they face a dilemma between their pedagogical training and their cultural knowledge; between the expectations of their fellow teachers and of parents; and between the goals of being culturally responsive to children, families, and their community and being perceived as professional by their fellow teachers and their superiors.