Immigrants in sentence

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I grew up as the daughter of Indian immigrants visiting my cousins in India every summer, and because I had no immunity to the local malarias, I was made to sleep under this hot, sweaty mosquito net every night while my cousins, they were allowed to sleep out on the terrace and have this nice, cool night breeze wafting over them.

So someone who says they hate immigrants, I try to imagine how scared they must be that their community is changing from what they've always known.

So I've been interested as an artist in the measuring, the observation, of many of the trans-border informal flows across this border: in one direction, from south to north, the flow of immigrants into the United States, and from north to south the flow of waste from southern California into Tijuana.

I'm referring to how immigrants, when they come to these neighborhoods, they begin to alter the one-dimensionality of parcels and properties into more socially and economically complex systems, as they begin to plug an informal economy into a garage, or as they build an illegal granny flat to support an extended family.

And this applies not just to people who have been living in the USA for many generations, but also to immigrants and refugees, who, for most immigrant and refugee groups, arrive in the USA metabolically healthy, and then within a few years, they become just as high-risk for obesity and diabetes as other Americans.

Now, you know that New York does place a high value on attracting immigrants, so we were excited about the prospect of growth, but honestly, where were we going to grow in a city that was already built out to its edges and surrounded by water?

Well — (Applause) — I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world, seeking new opportunities.

Migrant workers from Rome to Los Angeles and many cities between are now organizing to stage strikes to remind the people who live in their cities what a day without immigrants would look like.

And like many immigrants at the time, they arrived on the Lower East Side in New York City and they encountered a crazy melting pot.

They emerged over the years when immigrants from the countryside came to the cities looking for work, like cities within the cities, known for problems like crime, poverty, and the violent drug war between police and the drug gangs.

Born in Ohio to Indian immigrants, I settled on the ultimate rebellion against my parents, moving to the country they had worked so damn hard to get out of.

As an HIV social worker in San Francisco, I had met many gay immigrants.

Don't we deserve a hero to remind everyone that our country was build on the struggles of immigrants?" "And what about the struggles of Native Americans who were nearly wiped out and forced into reservations and whose descendants still suffer from poverty and discrimination?

In 2014, the pollster Ipsos MORI published a survey on attitudes to immigration, and it showed that as numbers of immigrants increase, so public concern with immigration also increases, although it obviously didn't unpack causality, because this could equally be to do not so much with numbers but the political and media narrative around it.

One of the things that stands out for me very strikingly, looking at immigration attitudes in the United Kingdom, is that ironically, the regions of my country that are the most tolerant of immigrants have the highest numbers of immigrants.

So for instance, London and the Southeast have the highest numbers of immigrants, and they are also by far the most tolerant areas.

During the 19th century, immigrants and urban political machines helped fuel this culture of voting.

All across this country right now, immigrants, young people, veterans, people of all different backgrounds are coming together to create this kind of passionate, joyful activity around elections, in red and blue states, in urban and rural communities, people of every political background.

You see, I'm one of the 84 million Americans who are immigrants or children of immigrants.

My revised dream led me to the work I do today: training immigrants to run for public office and leading a movement for inclusive democracy.

In that work, I became and advocate for South Asians and other immigrants.

And then in December of 2000, I joined hundreds of other immigrants in a hall in Brooklyn where we pledged our loyalty to a country that we had long considered home.

First, well-meaning New Yorkers who were in city government holding government positions had no idea how scared immigrants were of law enforcement.

But the third most untapped resource in American democracy is the vantage point that immigrants bring.

Immigrants' votes, voices and vantage points are what we all need to work to include in American democracy.

So my optimism never wavers, because I know that there are millions of immigrants just like me, in front of me, behind me and all around me.

Here in the US, we have presidential candidates like Donald Trump, casually calling to register American Muslims, and ban Muslim immigrants and refugees from entering this country.

OT: What inspires me these days are immigrants.

Immigrants all over the world who are doing the best that they can to make a living, to survive and also to thrive.

And some of these people who are immigrants are also undocumented.

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