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Congress’s Top 9 Excuses For Not Fixing Immigration System
The U.S. has a broken immigration system that slows our economic growth, jeopardizes our security, and has resulted in 11 million people living here illegally with no path to legal status. There is broad support across the political spectrum for reform, but Congress has repeatedly failed to act, citing a… Read More
10 Reasons Farmers Won’t Be Able to Feed You without Immigration Reform
72% of farm workers are foreign-born. According to a 2010 survey, 47% of agricultural employers are not satisfied with the H-2A visa program, the only visa program in the US designed to bring in temporary agricultural workers, and 42% will not use it because it… Read More
Nashville opens office for immigrant ‘new Americans’
Immigrants in Nashville have found a vocal ally in Mayor Karl Dean in recent years, and on Monday he announced the creation of a new Metro office focused exclusively on helping them. By executive order, Dean created the Mayor’s Office of New Americans, or MONA, a city office tasked with… Read More
10 Reasons the Tech Industry Will Break Down without Immigration Reform
America will face a shortage of more than 220,000 workers with STEM degrees by 2018. More than a quarter of science and engineering firms already report difficulty hiring. In recent years, more than half of the post doctorates in science and engineering at U.S. Read More
Reed: Atlanta Will Welcome Immigrants
Immigrants are welcome in Atlanta. That’s the message Mayor Kasim Reed sent Wednesday when he announced the recommendations of the Welcoming Atlanta Working Group he appointed in April. Standing in front of the Center for Civil and Human Rights downtown, Mayor Reed said the group submitted … Read More
Atlanta mayor announces plans for welcoming new arrivals
Mayor Kasim Reed on Wednesday announced his administration will create an office of multicultural affairs as part of Atlanta’s efforts to create a welcoming environment for everyone regardless of race, ethnicity or native country. The mayor also disclosed the Atlanta Police Department will create… Read More
Immigration and Atlanta
Between 2000 and 2012 immigrants accounted for nearly two thirds of the city of Atlanta’s population growth. The city’s foreign-born population grew by nearly 22 percent, from 27,352 to 33,358, while the native-born population grew by less than 1 percent. Find out more about the contributions of “New Americans in Atlanta” and… Read More
10 Indicators That Immigrants Initiate Job Creation
40% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children. Immigrants are more than twice as likely as the native-born to start a business. Immigrants are 13% of the US pop but started 28% of US companies founded in 2011. Immigrants… Read More
10 Reasons Your Wallet Should Want Immigration Reform
Immigration reform would increase real GDP by 5.4% over the next 20 years. A 5.4% increase in GDP would add $1.4 trillion to the U.S. economy. Immigration reform would also decrease federal deficits by $1.2 trillion over the next 20 years. Read More
British Entrepreneur Moves to U.S. to Found Successful Audiovisual Equipment Company
After transferring his already successful audiovisual company from Europe to the United States, Mark Wilkins founded Stampede, a large distributor of audiovisual equipment, here in the United States, based in upstate New York. When Mark Wilkins, the CEO of Stampede, moved to the United… Read More
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