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Weekend Reading: Highlights from this week’s immigration news (Feb 13-Feb 19)
New York becomes the first city in the country to launch a program (NYT) that will offer foreign-born entrepreneurs a cap-exempt H1-B visa, in exchange for their collaboration with professors and students on City University of New York campuses. Americans have been increasingly concerned about immigration in the past two… Read More
South Carolina Primary: Immigrants in the Palmetto State
This Saturday, Republicans in South Carolina will head to the polls to cast their primary votes. The Palmetto State is home to a small, but rapidly growing, foreign-born population. Although just 4.8 percent of the state’s population is foreign-born, this group grew by over 90 percent between 2000 and 2013. Read More
Did You Know That Our Founding Fathers Were All Immigrants?
The hit musical Hamilton explains why. There are plenty of verbal acrobatics in Hamilton, the smash-hit hip-hop musical about the life of America’s first Treasury Secretary, but one simple statement has become a kind of battle cry: “Immigrants, we get the job done!” Sung by Nevis-born Alexander Hamilton and… Read More
Lunar New Year in America and the Growth of the Asian-American Population
Monday, February 8, marked the first day of the Lunar New Year, which is celebrated across East Asia and in Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese communities all over the world as the Spring Festival, Seollal, or T?t. Since the earliest days of Chinese immigration in the 1800s, the Lunar New Year… Read More
How Tech Startup Founders Are Hacking Immigration
Standing under fluorescent lights at a San Francisco hospital, employees of Medisas Inc. were celebrating the debut of their medical records software. It was the product of two years of planning, coding, and countless meetings with hospital administrators, all driven by Gautam Sivakumar, the startup’s founder and chief executive officer. But Sivakumar spent… Read More
‘Biliteracy’ Seal on Student Diplomas Will Recognize and Reward Bilingualism
Ability to speak two languages called important advantage for NJ students as they enter workforce and college New Jersey has joined more than a dozen other states that endorse an official seal on high school graduates’ diplomas and other records that signifies they are proficient in a second language. Known… Read More
Immigrants in Iowa, Host of Thursday’s GOP Debate
Tomorrow evening, the Republican candidates will meet in Des Moines for their final debate (#GopDebate) before next week’s Iowa caucuses. The debate, hosted by Fox News, is the last opportunity for the candidates to present their platforms before voters head to the polls. Iowa is home to a… Read More
An Immigrant Family Behind America’s Pita Craze
In elementary school, Karen Toufayan’s friends never knew what to make of her lunch. While the others munched on Wonder Bread, Karen usually unwrapped a pita. “Nobody knew anything about pita bread,” says Karen. “They couldn’t even pronounce it. People were like, ‘What is that?’” She says it was like… Read More
Iowa Colleges Press for Immigration Reform
For generations, our colleges and universities have served as essential catalysts for stimulating Iowa’s economy. Together we provide the advanced stages of education for our pipeline of human talent, produce basic and applied research, and develop leadership coupled with entrepreneurial spirit. The ultimate measure of our success is found across… Read More
Language Diversity and the Workforce: The Growing Need for Bilingual Workers in New Jersey’s Economy
This week, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie approved a statewide Seal of Biliteracy, an award given by the school system to students who have attained a high level of proficiency in two or more languages by high school graduation. The bill’s passage coincides with the release of a NAE research… Read More
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