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Miami Businesswoman Wants Immigrants to Have Access to Same Opportunities She Had

Miami Businesswoman Wants Immigrants to Have Access to Same Opportunities She Had

Maria Fischer Millet says business is in her blood. Her father ran a PR agency for more than 25 years in his native Nicaragua before he moved to the United States. So it was only a matter of time before Millet would rise to prominence in the business… Read More

Miami Businesswoman Wants Immigrants to Have Access to Same Opportunities She Had

Miami Businesswoman Wants Immigrants to Have Access to Same Opportunities She Had

Maria Fischer Millet says business is in her blood. Her father ran a PR agency for more than 25 years in his native Nicaragua before he moved to the United States. So it was only a matter of time before Millet would rise to prominence in the business world. “My… Read More

Indian Entrepreneur Creates a Better Hospital Call Button

Indian Entrepreneur Creates a Better Hospital Call Button

Hospitalized and experiencing pain, Srinath Vaddepally did what millions of patients do: He reached for the hospital call button to summon a nurse. Then he did something one in seven patients in hospitals do: he fell. The 20 agonizing minutes he spent on the floor were enough to realize there… Read More

Fourth-Generation Farmer Says Labor Shortages have led to Crop Loss

Fourth-Generation Farmer Says Labor Shortages have led to Crop Loss

A fourth-generation farmer, Craig Underwood has been working and running Underwood Ranches (and Underwood Family Farms) for 45 years. But labor shortages are forcing him to turn to mechanized crops, and he has lost faith that the government will repair the H2-A visa program so farmers like… Read More

Former Hotel Executive Says his Chain Couldn’t Have Thrived without the Contributions of Refugee Workers

Former Hotel Executive Says his Chain Couldn’t Have Thrived without the Contributions of Refugee Workers

Tom Negri has worked in hotels his entire life. After graduating from high school, he moved to Colombia for school and work. At the Hotel Irotama in Colombia, he met his future wife. By age 21, while attending the New York Hotel School, Negri was married and working six days… Read More

Mexican Entrepreneur Comes to Learn English, Stays To Launch $2 Billion U.S. Company

Mexican Entrepreneur Comes to Learn English, Stays To Launch $2 Billion U.S. Company

Mexican-born entrepreneur Isaac Torres came to the United States to learn English and wound up staying to found InterCambio Express, a money transfer service that now processes around $2 billion a year in transfers to countries across Latin America. Torres employs about 250 people — half in the United States,… Read More

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President: Christians Should be at “Forefront of Calling for Immigration Reform”

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President: Christians Should be at “Forefront of Calling for Immigration Reform”

The Economist calls Dr. Albert Mohler “one of America’s most influential Evangelicals.” As chief executive officer and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) in Louisville, Kentucky—the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world—he oversees an… Read More

Columbus, OH Evangelical Pastor Shares his Reason for Reform

Columbus, OH Evangelical Pastor Shares his Reason for Reform

Rich Nathan, senior pastor of the Vineyard Church in Columbus, OH, knows what it’s like to feel out of place. He grew up in a Jewish home in Queens, NY, and attended religious schools, but he always felt somewhat disconnected from the faith of his parents and teachers. For many… Read More

Student: U.S. Can Harness Billions of Dollars From Immigrants

Student: U.S. Can Harness Billions of Dollars From Immigrants

Adrian Arreola is the child of immigrants and has witnessed firsthand the fight for success in the United States. “What my dad accomplished with his drive and determination, especially coming from nothing, is amazing,” says Arreola. “I tell him he’s my idol every day.” Indeed, his father was an undocumented… Read More

For This Immigrant & Policy Scholar, Immigration and Education Go Hand in Hand

For This Immigrant & Policy Scholar, Immigration and Education Go Hand in Hand

The distinguished career of Dr. Vichet Chhuon, a thought leader in U.S. education policy, is a direct result of his own multicultural background and his family’s experiences as Cambodian refugees. As an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Chhuon’s work focuses on multicultural education and the experiences of underserved… Read More

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