Sentence examples for communities immigration from inspiring English sources
Under a program called Secure Communities, immigration agents can ask local jails to hold immigrants here illegally until federal agents can pick them up.
A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.
Dr. Waldinger has conducted studies showing that in many communities, immigration affects income levels and the gap between rich and poor.
With Secure Communities, immigration agencies automatically learn the identity of any non-citizen in the custody of local police and can initiate deportation.
WASHINGTON -- A group tasked with suggesting fixes for the Secure Communities immigration enforcement program released its report on Thursday as five committee members resigned in disagreement, including all three union members and a retired police chief.
WASHINGTON -- Activists are outraged over a Friday announcement from the Department of Homeland Security that it will move ahead with its controversial Secure Communities immigration enforcement program, even if states do not agree to participate.
The conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart will join Univision's "Al Punto" this week to discuss the Hispanic community, immigration and whether the Tea Party is making strides to appeal to Hispanic voters.
When she votes these days, Parker focuses on social issues, which seem more tangible to her she can imagine how a candidate's position on human rights matters, the LGBTQ community, immigration and the like might affect her friends and family.
But as anyone with a black or brown face knows, our nationality is regularly questioned, even when we're born here: we are spoken about in phrases such as "immigrant communities", and immigration stories carried in the media are commonly accompanied by images of black or Asian people, implicitly assuming they arrived from overseas.
It is important to note that the healthy immigrant effect largely affects those communities whose immigration is planned, since populations who relocate as refugees or asylum seekers are found to have compromised health status, with women often having been traumatized by war, rape and the transgression of their human rights [ 11].
One conflict is over Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program that shares fingerprints taken by local police with immigration authorities.
