Ohio, District 12

New American Economy Launches 15-State Ad Buy to Push DREAMer Legislation
NEW YORK, NY – In effort to push Congress to quickly arrive at an immigration compromise that secures the fate of nearly 800,000 DACA recipients—and up to an additional one million DREAMers—living in the United States, New American Economy is launching a six-figure ad buy in 15 key states across the… Read More

Alaska Dispatch News: Opinion: Anchorage embraces role as welcoming city
When Anchorage joined the Welcoming Cities network in 2014, we reaffirmed our commitment and connection to each other and to our community. The Welcoming Anchorage initiative honors the values deeply rooted in our city that sits on the traditional homelands of the Dena’ina. “Welcoming Anchorage” highlights Anchorage as… Read More

Rubin: Refugees up, crime down in Southfield, elsewhere
Southfield has embraced 4,478 refugees across a 10-year span, and in that same period, its rates of violent crime and property crime have plummeted. No one is claiming a cause and effect. Across the same decade, from 2006-15, Southfield most likely embraced more cellphones and Netflix memberships, too. What’s interesting… Read More

How USCIS Estimates Application and Petition Processing Times
This fact sheet provides an overview of how USCIS calculates processing times and the concerns over the accuracy of these estimates. Read More

The Contributions of New Americans in Arizona
After decades when states such as California, Florida, and New York attracted the majority of immigrants to the country, Arizona—which shares a 372-mile border with Mexico—has recently emerged as a major destination for New Americans. In 1990, 7.6 percent of Arizona residents were foreign-born. By 2010, that figure had risen… Read More

Small Ohio Town Would be ‘a Dead City’ Without Immigrants, Says Former Council Member
“If it wasn’t for the Latino community,” says Nelson Cintron Jr., “Painesville, Ohio would be a dead city.” Cintron knows the Painesville Hispanic community well. He owns La Nueva Mia 88.3FM WHWN, a noncommercial radio station that broadcasts throughout Lake County and as far as East Cleveland. It’s a news… Read More

Perez Santana v. Holder – First Circuit
The American Immigration Council, working with the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, has repeatedly challenged the “departure bar,” a regulation that precludes noncitizens from filing a motion to reopen or reconsider a removal case after they have left the United States. The departure bar not only precludes reopening or reconsideration based on new evidence or arguments that may affect the outcome of a case, but also deprives immigration judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals of authority to adjudicate motions to remedy deportations wrongfully executed, whether intentionally or inadvertently, by DHS. We argue that the regulation conflicts with the statutory right to pursue reopening and, as interpreted by the government, is an impermissible restriction of congressionally granted authority to adjudicate immigration cases. Read More

Pastor Advocates for Immigration Reform and Asks His Flock: What Does it Mean to Walk in the Shoes of Someone Else?
Rich Nathan, senior pastor of the Vineyard Church — the largest church in Columbus — empathizes with immigrants in this country; like them, he knows what it’s like to feel out of place. He grew up in a Jewish home in Queens and attended religious schools, but he always felt… Read More

Protecting American Bridges, but Still Under Threat of Leaving the Country Due to U.S. Immigration Policy
Born and raised in Venezuela, Andrea Sanchez spent her childhood accompanying her dad, an engineer and university professor, to the lab. Years later, eager to pursue the same career, she entered a doctorate program at the University of South Florida. Studying in the United States was her top choice; Andrea… Read More

Restrictionist Lawyer Reveals Long-Term Assault on Immigrant Children
Today, the head of the legal arm of one of the most notorious restrictionist groups in the nation boldly admitted his work on Alabama’s new anti-immigrant law aims to end public education for the children of immigrants. Michael Hethmon of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), an offshoot of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), made no bones about being the author of the education provision in HB 56—which on its face requires public schools to determine the immigration status of enrolling students and their parents, but in reality chips away at children’s ability to get an education. Read More
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