New York, District 7

New York, District 7

KERA News: How Immigrants Benefit The Local Economy

KERA News: How Immigrants Benefit The Local Economy

The top local stories this morning from KERA News: A new report from the group New American Economy looked at the economic contributions of immigrants in the city of Dallas. This comes as the U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to take up the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or… Read More

Without DACA, Gifted Linguist Faces Deportation Instead of Law School

Without DACA, Gifted Linguist Faces Deportation Instead of Law School

When Santiago Tobar Potes was brought to the United States at age 3, he spoke only Spanish. Now 20 and a student at Columbia University, he has become a gifted linguist, teaching himself English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Haitian Creole, and Chinese, and now working on Arabic and Russian. He wants… Read More

A Multigenerational Path of Migration Leads to Jobs in Florida

A Multigenerational Path of Migration Leads to Jobs in Florida

Bombay native Sarvar Demehri arrived in the United States in 1981 alongside her husband, an electrical engineer who worked for a NASA subcontractor. She was just 21, and fresh out of college. A few years later, the pair opened their own business in Florida, a company dedicated to home security… Read More

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