Alabama, District 6

Alabama, District 6

The Daily Orange: Drop in refugee resettlement could affect Syracuse economy

The Daily Orange: Drop in refugee resettlement could affect Syracuse economy

The number of new refugees resettling in Syracuse dropped 72 percent between 2016 to 2017, according to recently published data from New York state. This large drop could have wide-ranging economic effects on the area, experts say. Onondaga County has become home to 9,954 refugees in the last 11 years,… 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

An Immigrant Helps Entrepreneurs, They Help the Economy

An Immigrant Helps Entrepreneurs, They Help the Economy

For Karla Boldery, a Mexican immigrant and business coach, how to make business development easier for immigrants is the million-dollar question. How to improve immigration reform, she says, is “the twenty-million-dollar question.” For the past seven years, Boldery has worked in innovation and technology business development. She received a… Read More

Local Tech Companies Say Trump's Immigration Order Is Bad For Business

Local Tech Companies Say Trump’s Immigration Order Is Bad For Business

As the legal battle over President Trump’s executive order on immigration moves forward in California, more than 100 tech companies — including a few in Massachusetts — have signed a legal brief opposing the travel ban. Fuze, TripAdvisor and Brightcove have all signed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court… 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

Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant Policies Have Hurt American Construction Companies—and the State’s Economy

Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant Policies Have Hurt American Construction Companies—and the State’s Economy

Bill Caton, chief operating officer of the Alabama AGC—a non-residential construction association of more than 800 contractors, construction managers, and suppliers—says the state’s anti-immigration policies have created major problems for his industry—one that has a $10 billion annual economic impact on the state. “Until the state passed laws that made… Read More

Pastor Advocates for Immigration Reform and Asks His Flock: What Does it Mean to Walk in the Shoes of Someone Else?

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

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

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