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New Americans in Asheville
Report: New Americans in Asheville Download the Report New research from New American Economy shows that Asheville’s immigrant households earned $489 million and contributed more than $113 million in taxes in 2016. The report, New Americans in Asheville, was produced in partnership… Read More
The Washington Post: ‘A bad dream’: Pro-immigration group headed by Michael Bloomberg targets 14 senators over fate of ‘dreamers’
A pro-immigration group headed by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is targeting 14 senators in a new television advertisement and phone campaign this fall over the fate of young undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers.” In a six-figure ad buy launching Wednesday, the group, New American Economy, describes the… Read More
Highlights from the iMarch
Watch the recap from December’s iMarch kickoff below. Learn more and get involved at iMarch.us. Read More
Conservative Pastor and Ex-Army Analyst Says Making America Stronger Means Treating Immigrants ‘Better’
Fred Otto, who preaches at the staunchly conservative Church of the Nazarene in Bisbee, Arizona, says that according to the Bible we are all immigrants — all aliens — on this earth. “There’s a lot of language in the Bible about remembering the aliens and remembering the sojourner,” he says. Read More
The Contributions of New Americans in Louisiana
While today only 4 percent of Louisiana’s population is made up of immigrants, the state’s immigrant population has been growing in recent decades. In 1990, Louisiana was home to roughly 87,000 immigrants, a group that made up 2.1 percent of the state’s population overall. By 2010, that share had almost… Read More
Weekend Reading: Highlights from this week’s immigration news (June 6-10)
This week, we feature another outstanding 2016 graduate, Larissa Martinez, a hard-working valedictorian in Texas who is headed to Yale University in the fall. As the New York Post reports in this uplifting video of her speech, she used the podium “to announce her status as an ‘undocumented’… Read More
Declaration from Julia Baker
In one case, the asylum officer made a negative credible fear finding where a woman claimed that the man who murdered the father of her [children] had threatened to murder her children. The woman did not reveal all the details of the threats because the boys were in the room… Read More
Declaration from Andrea Guttin
In one case, an asylum officer told a woman that the domestic violence she suffered several years ago was irrelevant to her claim, even though she was fleeing continued persecution on the part of her abuser…. Some of the immigration judges conducting negative [credible fear interview] review hearings via tele-video… Read More
Dr. Miriam Perez: Cleveland Clinic Depends on Immigrants to be World Leader in Medicine
Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Miriam Perez moved from her native Colombia to the United States to study neurosurgery. Then, 29 weeks after getting pregnant, she went into premature labor. “At that time, survival without real complications was unheard of,” she says. But after two months in intensive care, her son… Read More
Why One Professor Is Teaching Her Students About the Need for Immigration Reform
Anna Ochoa O’Leary, assistant professor of Mexican-American Studies at the University of Arizona, teaches her students about how migration is changing American communities. Her syllabi always include a disclaimer that the class will discuss hot-button topics like race and undocumented immigrants. “I’m not blind to the fact that immigration is… Read More
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