Alabama, District 3

Alabama, District 3

Covid-19: The Role of Immigrants in America’s Biomedical Industry

Covid-19: The Role of Immigrants in America’s Biomedical Industry

As the public eagerly awaits a cure for Covid-19, hundreds of thousands of immigrants are working side-by-side with their fellow scientists, engineers, medical production workers, and pharmacists to develop the medicines and deliver the supplies that healthcare practitioners and patients need. The latest data from the… Read More

The Silent Shortage: How Immigration Can Help Address the Large and Growing Psychiatrist Shortage in the United States

The Silent Shortage: How Immigration Can Help Address the Large and Growing Psychiatrist Shortage in the United States

Nearly a third of all psychiatrist positions in 2015 were filled by doctors who graduated from a foreign medical school, according to this NAE study using data from the American Medical Association. Roughly 60 percent of all counties lack a single psychiatrist. The study suggests that immigrant psychiatrists represent an… Read More

Demand for Bilingual Workers More than Doubled in 5 years, New Report Shows

Demand for Bilingual Workers More than Doubled in 5 years, New Report Shows

New York, NY –  Today, New American Economy (NAE) released a report on the growing demand for bilingual talent in major industries in the United States. The research looks at online job posting data acquired by Burning Glass Technologies, a leading labor market analytics firm that searches 40,000 job… Read More

Auburn English Language Educator Sees Immigration Reform as a Way to Help Students Succeed

Auburn English Language Educator Sees Immigration Reform as a Way to Help Students Succeed

As an assistant professor of ESOL Education at Auburn University, Jamie Harrison can attest to the growing demand for teachers who specialize in educating young English language learners. One ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) teacher whom Harrison knows travels to 13 different schools every week, so that students… Read More

Purdue Professor Says Our Economy Suffers When Talented International STEM Grads Are Forced to Leave

Purdue Professor Says Our Economy Suffers When Talented International STEM Grads Are Forced to Leave

Professor Gerhard Klimeck is a master of the Conte, a huge supercomputer based in Indiana. Rippling with copper wire, Conte is capable of running the sort of design simulations that are responsible for our smaller and sleeker iPhones. Klimeck works in the cutting-edge field of nanotechnology, but he grew… Read More

Immigrants in North Carolina

Immigrants in North Carolina

Eight percent of North Carolina residents are immigrants, while 7 percent of residents are native-born U.S. citizens with at least one immigrant parent. Read More

Fatally Flawed: FAIR Blames Immigrants and Children for Maryland’s Financial Problems

Fatally Flawed: FAIR Blames Immigrants and Children for Maryland’s Financial Problems

In a case of very creative accounting, the nativist Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is blaming immigrants and children for Maryland’s fiscal woes. In a new report, FAIR lumps together unauthorized K-12 immigrant students with U.S.-born students who have unauthorized parents and claims that they are all costing Maryland taxpayers astronomical sums in educational expenditures. However, the report, entitled The Cost of Illegal Immigration to Marylanders, suffers from several fatal flaws. Read More

Court Strikes Down Provision of Fremont's Immigration Ordinance, Impact on Community Continues

Court Strikes Down Provision of Fremont’s Immigration Ordinance, Impact on Community Continues

BY DARCY TROMANHAUSER, PROGRAM DIRECTOR AT NEBRASKA APPLESEED. A federal court’s recent decision to strike down the core of Fremont’s immigration enforcement ordinance (Ordinance No. 5165)—which requires businesses to verify employees’ immigration status and renters to apply for an occupancy license—is no surprise. Across the country, every immigration ordinance with a rental component has been found unconstitutional—but not before creating great cost, division, and a sense of loss in the local community. Although Fremont’s immigration measure has not yet gone into effect, its passage is having a devastating impact on the community. Read More

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