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Impressive Stats About Foreign-Born Innovators
Free Enterprise July 2, 2012 A Partnership for a New American Economy study finds that foreign-born scientists and engineers are doing a lot to help the U.S. innovate and stay globally competitive. The report looked at the role that foreign-born scholars, faculty, and students play at the top ten… Read More
Georgia Labor Commissioner: Immigration System Needs an Overhaul
Global Atlanta July 2, 2012 Growing up in the country, Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler learned just when to pluck fruit from the tree or put the sickle to a stalk. “I’ve picked corn, I’ve picked tomatoes, I’ve picked apples, pears, watermelons, canteloupes, I mean you name it. I… Read More
Universities Seek US Residency for Foreign Grad Students
WRAL June 29, 2012 More than 100 university presidents nationwide have asked President Barack Obama and Congress for legislation that would allow foreign-born students to remain in the U.S. after graduation. Duke University President Richard Brodhead, who signed the appeal along with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill… Read More
Green Card Waits Grow Worse for Skilled Immigrants
India West June 29, 2012 Skilled foreign nationals have seen no improvement in their prospects of obtaining Green Cards and wait times will likely increase in employment-based immigration categories, according to a report by the Arlington, Va.-based National Foundation for American Policy, a policy research group. An October 2011… Read More
Immigrants and Small Business
New York Times June 30, 2012 Immigrants are known as entrepreneurial people, for obvious reasons: those with the ambition and energy to uproot themselves and build new lives in a distant land are well equipped to build businesses and the economy, too. That is the common wisdom, anyway, which… Read More
Ohio’s Immigrant Workforce Lags U.S.
Dayton Daily News July 1, 2012 In the last 20 years in Ohio, the number of immigrant workers has more than doubled and the number of immigrant small business owners increased by more than 60 percent, according to a new report. But an analysis by the Dayton Daily News… Read More
Another Thing Immigrants Do for the Economy: Invent Cool Things
Bloomberg BusinessWeek July 1, 2012 Each year the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awards about 200,000 patents to inventors. Last year a Stanford student built a camera that lets users change what’s in focus after snapping a shot; Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers invented a tiny, foldable car; and… Read More
Roberts: Staple Those Green Cards
MetroWest Daily News July 1, 2012 In a recent speech to Latino leaders, Mitt Romney said: “If you get an advanced degree, we want you to stay here. So I’d staple a green card to the diploma of someone who gets an advanced degree in America.” A year ago,… Read More
Dennis Nixon and Rafael Anchia: Take the Chance to Align Immigration Policy with Economic Needs
The Dallas Morning News July 1, 2012 In delivering the decision on United States vs. Arizona, the Supreme Court has opened the door of opportunity to fixing our broken federal immigration system. The ruling also proved that state-based reforms might make people feel better, but they won’t solve the… Read More
US Desperately Needs a Strategy to Attract the Right Skilled Immigrants
City Watch June 28, 2012 President Obama’s recent “do it myself” immigration reform plan, predictably dissed by conservatives and nativists, reveals just how clueless the nation’s leaders are about demographics. Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on Arizona’s immigration crackdown also broke down along predictable lines, with both parties claiming ideological… Read More
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