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Worcester Business Journal: Worcester officials push for immigrant protections
State and local organizations and institutions are calling for protections to thousands of young undocumented immigrants who were previously safe from deportation thanks to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. According to business leaders and advocacy groups, repealing the law, which would take effect in March, would hurt the local economy. Read More
Bowling Green Daily News: City selected for study on integrating new Americans
The city of Bowling Green was recently selected to receive services to analyze how the city’s foreign-born population can be better integrated into the local workforce. Earlier this year, the city applied for a grant specifically to fund a study to help determine the best ways the area’s foreign-born population… Read More
U.S. News & World Report: The Privilege of U.S. Citizenship
In 1991, the summer I turned 16, my family and I came to the United States seeking political asylum from the Soviet Union. We had about $600 among the five of us. Less than a month later, as we began to settle in Chicago, the USSR disintegrated and we found… Read More
KPBS: San Diego Wants To Be An Even More Welcoming City To Newcomers
When Samuel Tsoi first emigrated from Hong Kong, the then-8-year-old focused on learning English to assimilate into his new country. “And yet, I wasn’t given an opportunity to retain my Chinese language, so I had to learn that later on,” Tsoi said. Because in today’s globalized world, he said, bilingualism… Read More
CNN: The big decision on Dreamers: What Congress should do
One outcome of President Trump’s surprise budget deal with Democrats is a potential December showdown over the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and its hundreds of thousands of young beneficiaries. All eyes will turn to Congress — where, admittedly, a major immigration deal has eluded… Read More
The San Diego Union-Tribune: San Diego wins grant to welcome immigrants
San Diego received $25,000 to make a strategic plan for the city to welcome and integrate immigrants and refugees. The San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. and the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce will work with several local nonprofits to research needs in immigrant and refugee communities over the… Read More
Post Independent: Editorial: The smart, American thing to do: Protect Dreamers
First, we offer thanks and praise to Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet, Colorado’s U.S. senators, for signing on as co-sponsors of the latest version of the Dream Act. The bill, backed by four Republican and six Democratic senators, would establish permanent residency and a path… Read More
Capital Gazette: Our say: Better to found a candle company than curse the economy
A typically American success story came to a crossroads last week when it was announced that a global consumer goods company had agreed to pay $75 million for Chesapeake Bay Candle. The story began in the basement of an Annapolis home in 1994 when Chinese immigrants — one of them… Read More
Press Herald: Letter to the editor: Leadership of immigrants helped build U.S. economy
Before Congress throws out the baby with the bathwater, I’d like to remind nativists (those who approve of President Trump’s immigration policies) of the consequences of restricting immigration. Republicans’ protest that they are only interested in reducing “illegal” immigration doesn’t wash. The reform bill introduced this year (sponsored by Sens. Tom Cotton… Read More
Washington Post: White House claims ‘dreamers’ take jobs away from blacks and Hispanics. Here’s the truth.
It’s a long-running talking point spouted by Trump administration members and the president himself: Undocumented immigrants are taking jobs away from black and Hispanic Americans. Hours after President Trump dismantled an Obama-era program that had granted 800,000 young undocumented immigrants permission to live and work in the United States, White House Press… Read More
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