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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Local officials, clergy challenge the narrative of Trump’s immigration policies”
On a day when the Trump administration unveiled new policies to intensify the hunt for and deportation of immigrants without legal status, numerous Pittsburgh-area voices mobilized to send a different narrative. Civic, religious and immigrant-community leaders released statistics asserting that immigrants have brought more than $2 billion in annual spending… Read More
WSVN: South Florida politicians express concern over Trump’s immigration order
South Florida politicians express concern over Trump’s immigration order Members of South Florida’s congressional delegation and community leaders expressed fears, Tuesday, that President Trump’s new immigration order could affect the legal immigrant community. During a press conference Tuesday, the White House Press Secretary said that Trump’s order is not mass… Read More
CBS Local Miami: ‘Even If They’ve Been Good, They’ll Be Sent Back’: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen On Trump Immigration Agenda
Local leaders and business owners gathered Tuesday to celebrate Miami’s many immigrants and what they bring to South Florida’s table. At Venture Hive, a firm that helps entrepreneurs start up companies, a half a dozen young immigrant business owners were rolled out, like Dominican Jorge Estrella. “We actually have a… Read More
Impact Alpha: Bloomberg recruits Republicans to stake out a different immigration policy
Media mogul and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg has recruited Republicans as well as Democrats to help highlight the contributions of immigrants in all 435 congressional districts. The more than 100 roundtables and other events during this week’s congressional recess comes as the Trump administration rolls out plans to speed up… Read More
The Miami Herald: “Miami Republicans worry about Trump deportations: ‘You’re going to catch a lot of good people’”
Two Miami Republicans in Congress questioned on Tuesday the Trump administration’s new policy exposing to deportation nearly all immigrants illegally in the country. U.S. Reps. Carlos Curbelo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen were speaking at an event highlighting the contribution of immigrants to Miami’s fledgling tech industry when the Department of Homeland… Read More
Entrepreneur: Entrepreneurs Are Being Deported — And They Might Be At The Center of America’s Coming Immigration Fight
On a recent Thursday morning in Cambridge, Mass., Alessandro Babini straps his company’s palm-size wearable device onto his arm. He’s the cofounder of a startup called Humon, which makes a next-generation fitness gadget. It monitors how well a user’s muscles are processing oxygen and then relays that information to an… Read More
Newsmax: Michael Bloomberg Launches Immigration Reform Advocacy Group
Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a bipartisan immigration advocacy group powered in part by President Donald Trump supporters, Politico reported. The Partnership for a New American Economy, the purpose of which is to rally public support for immigration reform, has tapped two Trump supporters… Read More
WKSU News Radio: “Immigrants in Cleveland are Vital to the Local Economy and Entrepreneurship, Study Finds”
A bi-partisan group has created an interactive map showing the economic impact of immigrants in all 50 states. The map comes from a study produced by the group New American Economy. According to the study, in Cleveland, immigrants have over $3 billion in spending power and contribute over $1 billion in taxes. It… Read More
The Columbus Dispatch: “Immigrants Crucial to Ohio economy, Report says”
Omar D’Angelo and his family moved to Columbus in 2000 to escape a crippling financial collapse that devastated the middle class in their native Argentina. Shortly after arriving here, he started helping his parents bake cakes and other South American confections for family members and friends. At the same time,… Read More
The Jamestown Sun: Study: Immigrants make up growing part of workforce, tax base of ND, Minnesota
A new analysis is shedding some light on the growing economic impact of immigrants who live and work in North Dakota and Minnesota as questions of immigration policy, especially for refugees, continue to split opinions locally and nationally. Newly compiled data released Tuesday, Feb. 21, morning by national organization New… Read More
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