Showing posts with label Immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Immigration. Show all posts

18 March 2019

A Bar for Spain’s Radical Right, Run by a Chinese Immigrant



MADRID — Step into Bar Oliva, a cafe in a southern suburb of Madrid, and you step back 44 years. Gen.

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25 April 2018

British Citizen One Day, Illegal Immigrant the Next



LONDON — Renford McIntyre was just a child when he left Jamaica to join his parents in Britain. He spent the next 50 years here, working various jobs and paying taxes.

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09 March 2017

It Takes Something Seismic to Get This Group Protesting



Give the current administration credit. It's managed to energize American politics in the most unlikely places.

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17 May 2016

‘Brexit’ Vote Worries European Up-and-Comers Lured to Britain



LONDON — Silvia Luis, from Portugal, is thinking of attending university in Scotland. Sandra Martinsone, a Latvian, said she might apply for citizenship or buy property. Julie Miquerol, from France, has sped up her plans to open a start-up company in Spain. They, like some 1.

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16 February 2016

For NYC Firefighters Learning Mandarin, Service Starts With 'Ni Hao'



On Thursday nights near the Brooklyn, N.Y., waterfront, an old firehouse turns into a schoolhouse, where the drills are in Chinese. The students are some of New York's bravest.

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04 February 2016

Why are Americans so angry?



Americans are generally known for having a positive outlook on life, but with the countdown for November's presidential election now well under way, polls show voters are angry. This may explain the success of non-mainstream candidates such as Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders.

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20 January 2016

The Great Republican Revolt



The angriest and most pessimistic people in America aren’t the hipster protesters who flitted in and out of Occupy Wall Street. They aren’t the hashtavists of #BlackLivesMatter.

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09 December 2015

For Immigrants, America Is Still More Welcoming Than Europe



The United States has some of the most hostile policies toward an immigrant population found in the developed world.

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24 November 2014

Obama Has Issued Fewer Executive Orders Than Any President In Past 100 Years





In response to President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration Thursday, Republican lawmakers have threatened to sue the president or block his judicial nominees on grounds that the president overstepped his constitutional powers.



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29 October 2013

Immigration in USA 80s Style

"Which of us does not think of other grandfathers and grandmothers, from so many places around the globe, for whom this statue was the first glimpse of America?”    
    -Ronald Reagan