Ohio, District 4
Expedited Removal Explainer
Expedited removal is a process by which low-level immigration officers can quickly deport certain noncitizens who are undocumented or have committed fraud or misrepresentation. Read More
Quantifying the Impact of the Trump Administration on Immigration
Table of Contents: Naturalizations Permanent Residency H-1Bs International Students DACA Temporary Status Protected Given the upheaval of the past year since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been difficult to take full stock of the Trump Administration’s impact on immigration in… Read More
Assessing Language Barriers for Immigrant Entrepreneurs
As job creators for local communities, many immigrant entrepreneurs face significant language barriers to access financial aid and other assistance as they struggle to recover from the recession caused by COVID-19. Our analysis of data from the American Community Survey shows that more than one in five… Read More
Immigrant Workers in the Hardest-Hit Industries
This post was updated on August 20, 2020 to reflect new job loss data from the Department of Labor While across the board, workers and families of all kinds saw tremendous job losses unseen since the Great Depression, data from the Department of Labor for March and April 2020… Read More
Immigrant Entrepreneur from Mexico Pays it Forward in Urbana, IL
Mauricio Salinas grew up poor in Puebla, Mexico. In 1986, as a 19-year-old fresh out of high school, he came to the United States looking for a better life. He worked in landscaping and as a food server, and managed to get an education at Parkland College in Champaign. Still,… Read More
Dreamer Wants to Give Back to U.S. — To Do So Needs DACA
Ana Ramirez grew up in north-central Washington, studying hard, earning good grades, and believing she had the same opportunities as her peers. It wasn’t until she was a freshman in high school that she learned the truth. After being accepted into a European summer study program, she ran home to… Read More
Growing Produce: Opinion: If We Want American Farm Workers, We Have to Offer Even More
Nationwide, the number of full-time equivalent farm workers declined by almost 22% from 2002 to 2014, according to the Partnership for a New American Economy, which wrote an in-depth analysis of government data on agriculture. The loss in labor was considerably higher in some regions of the U.S, including the Southeast… Read More
KRON: Immigrants make up more than one-third of San Francisco population, with $7.1 billion in spending power
Immigrants make up more than a third of San Francisco’s population and make a large contribution to the local economy, according to a new report released Tuesday. Immigrants in San Francisco have around $7.1 billion in spending power and pay more than $2.5 billion in total taxes each year, $1.7… Read More
New Americans in Los Angeles
Immigrants have a positive impact on the Los Angeles economy through their high rates of workforce participation, large tax contributions, and spending power, according to a New American Economy (NAE) report. The report, New Americans in Los Angeles, finds: In 2014, foreign-born residents in Los Angeles County contributed $232.9 billion to the… Read More
Cherry Farm’s Ad for American Workers Fails to Get a Single Reply
In the 19th century, Steve Bardenhagen’s great-great-grandfather emigrated from Germany, fought in the Civil War, and was rewarded with the land in northern Michigan that his descendants still farm today. Bardenhagen Berries is now a thriving 180-acre cherry and strawberry farm, with revenues of around $400,000 a year—but Bardenhagen, who… Read More
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