Successful Tech CEO Wants to Hire American Workers, but U.S. Immigration Won’t Let Him Stay in the Country

Successful Tech CEO Wants to Hire American Workers, but U.S. Immigration Won’t Let Him Stay in the Country

Peteris Krumins has been fascinated by computers for as long as he can remember. “As a child, I would spend literally all my time tinkering with hardware and software,” he says. By the time he was 15, he’d already been hired as a professional computer programmer in his native Latvia. Read More

Immigration Policy Nearly Drives Entrepreneur’s $20 Million Company From America

Immigration Policy Nearly Drives Entrepreneur’s $20 Million Company From America

Brian Wong is redefining mobile advertising. The Canadian co-founder and CEO of Kiip — a company that offers rewards to players who reach new levels on mobile games or apps — has raised more than $20 million in venture capital and counts Coke, Kellogg’s, and Unilever among his customers. And… Read More

Bank CEO’s Immigration Story Has Shaped His Success Here in America

Bank CEO’s Immigration Story Has Shaped His Success Here in America

Suku Radia, CEO of Bankers Trust,has made diversity and inclusion integral to the ethos of the company he leads. Nineteen percent of his workforce is non-white, and his team speaks roughly 30 different languages. They are also highly enterprising and have grown Bankers Trust into Iowa’s largest bank. Radia literally… Read More

National Wave of Complaints Highlights Rampant Abuse by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Dire Need for Reform

National Wave of Complaints Highlights Rampant Abuse by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Dire Need for Reform

Washington, D.C. – Over the past week, an alliance of immigration groups, private attorneys and a law school clinic joined forces in filing complaints targeting abuses by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) across the country. Ten damages cases have been filed alleging unlawful CBP conduct in northern and southern… Read More

Why Pope Francis is Right on Immigration

Why Pope Francis is Right on Immigration

This Sunday, March 13, marks the third anniversary of Pope Francis’ appointment. Often known as the “People’s Pope” and “Pope of the Poor”, the pontiff has won many accolades for his humble style and focus on service for the disadvantaged. The Argentine native is both the first non-European pontiff… Read More

Weekend Reading: Highlights from this week’s immigration news (March 7 – March 11)

Weekend Reading: Highlights from this week’s immigration news (March 7 – March 11)

This week, Democratic and Republican debates took place in Florida, a state where immigrants play a critical role in the local economy. In this CNN piece, Ione Molinares profiles multiple Hispanic leaders in Central Florida, including Karina Oyola, who owns a tax preparation business based in Plaza del Sol. Read More

Richard Estrada Wants Immigration Reform So Latinos Like His American-Born Son Aren’t Racially Profiled

Richard Estrada Wants Immigration Reform So Latinos Like His American-Born Son Aren’t Racially Profiled

Border tensions are an inescapable fact of life in Tucson, the city where Richard Estrada grew up and has spent most of his life. “We are a foot away from Mexico,” Estrada says. Everything about life in Tucson is shaped by the negative “us versus them” rhetoric around immigration—even in… Read More

Tanzanian-Born Entrepreneur: Immigrants Aren’t Just “Giving Back to the Country, We Are Very Much a Part of the Country”

Tanzanian-Born Entrepreneur: Immigrants Aren’t Just “Giving Back to the Country, We Are Very Much a Part of the Country”

Abbas Bandali and his younger brother lived nearly parallel lives: They were both born and raised in Tanzania and attended school in England. But afterwards, Bandali’s younger brother returned to Tanzania, and Bandali ventured into an unknown future in America. “I can very easily compare and contrast my life and… Read More

Prep for Florida’s Dem and GOP Debates: Immigrants in the Sunshine State

Prep for Florida’s Dem and GOP Debates: Immigrants in the Sunshine State

Results are in from yesterday’s primaries in Idaho, Hawaii, Michigan, and Mississippi, and today the presidential hopefuls head south to the Sunshine State for more debating. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders square off tonight at Miami Dade College (#DemDebate), while the remaining Republican candidates will face each other… Read More

New U.S. Rule Extends Stay for Some Foreign Graduates

New U.S. Rule Extends Stay for Some Foreign Graduates

Shruthi Aramandla’s education and her job are geared to New York City’s skyline. She did not want to go back to her native India and start all over again. Ms. Aramandla, 24, who has a master’s degree from the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University, has been waiting… Read More

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