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Immigrants and Families Appear in Court
Comprehensive analyses of the government’s own data show that in the vast majority of situations, immigrants placed into removal proceedings appear for all of their court hearings. Read More
An Economic Opportunity: Removing Barriers to Higher Education for Dreamers in Arkansas (Update)
An Economic Opportunity: Removing Barriers to Higher Educations in Arkansas Download the Report This week, Governor Asa Hutchinson signed House Bill 1684 into law, granting DACA recipients access to in-state tuition at Arkansas public colleges and universities. With the unemployment rate at a near record… Read More
Matter of L-A-B-R-
This amicus brief discusses how Sessions’ public statements indicate prejudgment about the use of continuances and explains how Sessions’ use of the referral authority suggests that he is choosing to refer cases to himself to achieve predetermined political and policymaking goals. Read More
ABC Local 10 News: Local Republican lawmakers call on White House to work with Congress on immigration reform: Politicans say immigrants have significant economic impact on South Florida
As the country waits for President Donald Trump to release a revised version of his executive order on immigration, new information is emerging about the economic impact of immigrants in South Florida. “Miami is a successful immigrant story, and we’ve got a lot to brag about,” U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,… Read More
When the Local Steel Mill Closed, This Mexican Immigrant Started a Business and Hired Americans
When Racine Steel Castings laid off its workers in the 1990s, welder Lauro Davalos found himself better prepared than many. Long determined to give his children something he’d never had — a good education — Davalos had already started a business in downtown Racine, the Southeast Wisconsin town… Read More
This Venerated Engineer Says Embracing Skilled Immigrants Will Make America Great
Ram Bhatia was living in Montreal when a U.S. headhunter called him, saying, “We can’t find anyone in the United States.” The headhunter had spent a year looking for an engineer who could help a Wisconsin firm develop linear electrical motors. Bhatia, who is originally from India, had done graduate… Read More
College Dean Worries that Not Enough U.S. Students Pursuing STEM
As a child, Manoj Babu used to say he lived in two different worlds. There was America, where he attended school and had friends in Southeast Texas. And there was India, the culture that saturated life behind the doors of his house. His mother, a nurse, had come… Read More
A Look at Successful Restaurant Owner Who ‘Came Here with Nothing’
Lauro Davalos was 17 and alone when he crossed the border from Mexico. He’d graduated from the first grade only, then had to work. The United States, he’d gleefully tell people on the family farm, offered better, and he was going. After a circuitous route through… Read More
Without Immigration Reform, This Dean Worries Manufacturers Won’t have the Technical Workers they Need
As Indian immigrants growing up in East Texas, Manoj Babu and his sister were encouraged to pursue careers in science and math. Forget sports or music. They attended STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) competitions. In fact, Babu jokes that he may have actually disappointed his father by becoming… Read More
Access to Counsel in Immigration Court
Immigrants in immigration court do not have a right to government-appointed counsel. The lack of legal representation has a profound impact on immigrants’ outcomes in removal proceedings. Read More
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