Oklahoma, District 4

Oklahoma, District 4

Demanding ICE Provide Essential Data

Demanding ICE Provide Essential Data

The Council submitted an amicus brief explaining why ICE should release usable immigration data. The amicus brief was filed in a case where the ACLU is seeking information about how individuals are impacted by ICE enforcement practices. Read More

Coalition Letter on Continued Issues in Immigration Courts During COVID-19 Pandemic

Coalition Letter on Continued Issues in Immigration Courts During COVID-19 Pandemic

The American Immigration Council urged the Biden administration to address the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigration courts that continue to place everyone's health at risk during what has become the greatest period of community spread of COVID-19. Read More

Overcoming the Odds: The Contributions of DACA-Eligible Immigrants and TPS Holders to the U.S. Economy

Overcoming the Odds: The Contributions of DACA-Eligible Immigrants and TPS Holders to the U.S. Economy

Overcoming the Odds: The Contributions of DACA-Eligible Immigrants and TPS Holders to the U.S. Economy Download the Brief In many ways, Saba Nafees is a textbook example of the type of worker businesses in Texas report they need. As the Texas House Select Committee on… Read More

New Data: Tennessee In-State Tuition Bill Would Raise Spending Power Statewide by $19 Million, Add $5.5 Million to State and Federal Tax Revenue

New Data: Tennessee In-State Tuition Bill Would Raise Spending Power Statewide by $19 Million, Add $5.5 Million to State and Federal Tax Revenue

NASHVILLE, TN – As Senate Bill 2263 is considered by the Tennessee Senate Education Committee tomorrow, New American Economy (NAE) has released new research highlighting the economic benefits Tennessee would see if the state allows undocumented high school graduates to qualify for in-state tuition. The bill… Read More

WHO TV: The Insiders: November 26th Edition, Immigration, Border Security, and Unemployment

WHO TV: The Insiders: November 26th Edition, Immigration, Border Security, and Unemployment

Much like health care reform, immigration reform has not happened yet for the Republicans who currently control Congress and the White House. Various groups are pushing various ideas on the best ways to change how and when we allow people to move into our country and how and when we… Read More

DACA Recipient Fears Losing Ability to Support Her Younger Siblings

DACA Recipient Fears Losing Ability to Support Her Younger Siblings

When Blanca Carrillo Salmeron, an undocumented immigrant in Norman, Oklahoma, received protection from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) order in 2013, a year after it was signed, the whole family breathed a sigh of relief. Carrillo Salmeron’s parents were also undocumented, and they had four other… Read More

Immigrants Start Businesses, Don’t Want Hand-Outs

Immigrants Start Businesses, Don’t Want Hand-Outs

Elizabeth Cervantes is co-founder of the Southwest Suburban Immigrant Project (SSIP), a nonprofit that advocates for immigrant rights. Based in Bolingbrook, Illinois, the organization caters to the fast-growing immigrant population in the suburbs of Chicago. “About 54 percent of undocumented immigrants in Illinois live in suburban Cook county and collar… Read More

Canadian Software Engineer Says U.S. Turns Away the Very Tech Talent it Needs

Canadian Software Engineer Says U.S. Turns Away the Very Tech Talent it Needs

Helen Fu fell in the love with the Bay Area tech world when she participated in summer internships at Facebook and Palantir. When Palantir offered her a job after college, Fu, a Canadian student, entered the visa lottery that allows skilled workers to fill jobs in specialty occupations. She did… Read More

Paver Says his Company's Growth Is Stifled Without the Ability to Hire More Immigrant Workers

Paver Says his Company’s Growth Is Stifled Without the Ability to Hire More Immigrant Workers

When Craig Parker started at Silver Star Construction in 1992, the company focused on earthworks, or moving dirt around. Today it’s the largest commercial paving contractor in greater Oklahoma City, with annual revenues approaching $70 million and a staff of close to 200. The company maintains the roads for Moore… Read More

Without Immigrants ‘Almost Every Service Industry Would Collapse,’ Says Former Cop and Community Leader

Without Immigrants ‘Almost Every Service Industry Would Collapse,’ Says Former Cop and Community Leader

Hector Flores, National Immigration Committee Chair for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), was raised by his Mexican-American grandparents in South Texas. He spent summers doing migrant work, traveling north to Indiana to pick cherries then south to West Texas to tend to the cotton crop. When he’d… Read More

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