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No other group of Americans has had to act like immigrants in order to be recognized as citizens.
And this non-profit group had a big welcoming lunch for all the new immigrants to Canada.
As recent immigrants, we lived in the attic of a home that cared for adults with mental disabilities.
I wrote about Maricela Guzman, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, who joined the military so she could afford college.
Whether footballers or not, immigrants in the US play on endangered ground.
Imagine that you are a 15-year-old kid from Honduras now living in Harlem, or you're a 13-year-old girl born in DC to two Nigerian immigrants.
I want to be able to connect the joy of the game to the ever-moving footballer, to connect that moving footballer to immigrants who also moved in sight of a better position.
We settled in Footscray, a working-class suburb whose demographic is layers of immigrants.
These archives in Jerusalem, they maintain a card index file of the earliest immigrants and applicants for immigration to Palestine, and later Israel, from 1919 to 1965.
But this also signifies what often is missing in the global debate over refugees, migrants and immigrants, voices of the disenfranchised.
Both of my parents are immigrants.
I grew up in New York, which is home to the largest number of immigrants anywhere in the United States.
Adults don't know who immigrants are.
Nine out of 10 people tell me it's Latinos, but it's actually African immigrants.
A lot of people presume it to be Asians, but it's actually African immigrants.
So on these issues of education and policy and religion, a lot of things we presume about immigrants are incorrect.
The goal of Enodi is to highlight first-generation immigrants just like me who carry this kinship for the countries we grew up in, for the countries of origin and for this concept called "blackness."
Colin Powell, former Attorney General Eric Holder, former President of the United States, Barack Obama, are all the children of African or Caribbean immigrants.
So, engage us in conversation; discover who immigrants actually are, and see us apart from characterizations or limited media narratives or even who we might appear to be.
One particular thing we might look at, in terms of long-term flows of people, is what percentage of the world's population is accounted for by first-generation immigrants?
When you ask people in France what percentage of the French population is immigrants, the answer is about 24 percent.
And upon arrival, we were immigrants who had lost everything, so we had to work really hard to rebuild our lives.
You see, my siblings and I are the first generation to go to university, so for a family of immigrants, this was kind of a big deal.
They had expectations for all of the cousins and the extended family of immigrants that lived in the South Bronx, but they had more than just expectations for us.
We are a nation of immigrants.
Meanwhile, we have illegal immigrants doing all the work, but we don't have any robots.
My crew once pulled our van up to a really poor Miami neighborhood and we found out that our couchsurfing host for the night was an 18-year-old girl, still living at home, and her family were all undocumented immigrants from Honduras.
And here's an idea: Why not have the first truly European citizens by giving our immigrants, not Greek or German or Swedish citizenship, but a European citizenship?
Jini's parents are Korean immigrants.
Then our neighbor pops her head in, and she turns red with rage when she realizes that those immigrants from downstairs have somehow gotten their hands on her pizza.
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