Tax Day: Tax Contributions of Immigrants in the United States
Today is Tax Day—the widely dreaded annual deadline for filing federal income taxes. This year, it falls on the same day that the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the U.S. v Texas immigration case about President Obama’s executive actions to expand Deferred Action for… Read More
The American Immigration Council Welcomes Bi-Partisan Senate Immigration Bill
Washington D.C. – The American Immigration Council applauds the “Gang of Eight” Senators who have introduced the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act.” The Senators and their staff have been working tirelessly, for months, to create a bi-partisan solution that attempts to fix our broken… Read More
Meet the Chinese Researcher Who Helped Wisconsin Ward Off Swine Flu Pandemic
Jie He, an infectious disease researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is no stranger to accomplishment. In 2006, He, a Chinese native, immigrated to the United States to do a postdoctoral fellowship in infectious disease. After years of making headway researching viruses that cause respiratory tract infections in the… Read More
Weekend Reading: Highlights from this week’s immigration news (April 11 – 15)
This week, Florida Governor Rick Scott approved a statewide Seal of Biliteracy. Senator Anitere Flores, a Republican from Miami, supported the legislation on WFSU-FM, pointing out: “While it might not sound so much to us who are further removed from high school, when you’re a high school student applying to… Read More
Backward Immigration Policies Force America To “Compete With Our Own University Graduates,” Says CEO
Ramiro Cavazos is a seventh-generation Texan, born to a family that originally moved to America from Spain in the late 1600s and settled in the Rio Grande Valley as ranchers and farmers. Cavezos takes great pride in his family’s heritage and their many contributions to Texas. But as the CEO… Read More
Engineer Bears Witness to the U.S. Losing Many Talented STEM Workers Because of Immigration Policy
According to Jack O’Toole, the founder of a Dartmouth College-based company called FreshAir Sensor LLC, much of the product’s success is owed to Kwame Ohene-Adu, a Ghanaian immigrant. Ohene-Adu, came to the United States for college and earned two Dartmouth degrees in just five years: a bachelor’s degree in engineering… Read More
This Undocumented Student Wants Immigration Reform so She Can Contribute Even More to her Community
Barbara, a healthcare worker in Fayetteville, Arkansas, always did well in school. In kindergarten, she quickly learned English with the help of a friend. In second grade, she found confidence in small math competitions. And when she got to ninth grade, she began her involvement with student council. She managed… Read More
Despite Legal Status, Fear of Forced Return to Mexico for a Dedicated Austin Teacher
When Areli Zarate crossed the border from Mexico at the age of eight, she was with her three brothers, the oldest of whom was nine. They didn’t have any adults with them—their parents were already in the United States—but the four knew that their lives were changing forever. Sixteen years… Read More
For One Young Woman, It Took Becoming a Crime Victim to Get a Green Card
Alina Luna had the grades and the drive to attend college right after high school, but she didn’t have a Social Security Number. As an undocumented immigrant who came to Atlanta from Mexico at the age of 12, she wasn’t allowed to apply for federal financial aid without it. Luna… Read More
Arizona City Council Member: “America Needs the Passion, Skills, and Experience of DREAMers”
Today, Lorenzo Sierra is a city council representative of Avondale, Arizona, a diverse city of 80,000 people. He also works with the next generation of underprivileged Hispanic kids to help them achieve. It’s a mission that stems from his background: Sierra grew up in a poor Tucson neighborhood… Read More
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