How Arizona, Texas, and other solidly red states could soon turn purple

How Arizona, Texas, and other solidly red states could soon turn purple

Some of the country’s most traditionally conservative states are at a greater risk of turning purple than the GOP might realize. More than 25 million new Hispanic and Asian voters could join the electorate by 2020, according to a new study by the Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE), an… Read More

Research Shows U.S. Electorate Could Gain as Many as 25.6 Million New Hispanic and Asian Voters by 2020

Research Shows U.S. Electorate Could Gain as Many as 25.6 Million New Hispanic and Asian Voters by 2020

  CONTACT Ryan Williams, New American Economy, [email protected] U.S. has 13.2 million unregistered Hispanic and Asian eligible voters New York, NY — New American Economy today released new data showing how an increasing number of Hispanic and Asian voters could shift the electorate in 18 key states… Read More

Nashville’s Hispanic community is vibrant, successful

Nashville’s Hispanic community is vibrant, successful

Hispanic Heritage Month, which started on Sept. 15, is coming to an end, and while it celebrates the contributions that Hispanic Americans have made to this country’s economy and culture, millions live in the shadows, unable to fully work and live freely and independently here in the U.S., because of… Read More

Loss of high-skilled immigrants hurts growth, wages

Loss of high-skilled immigrants hurts growth, wages

Deepthi Valli is weighing choices she’d rather not have to make: Return to India or enroll in graduate school. It doesn’t appear she can keep working at Cerner Corp. Valli, 26, is one of thousands of highly skilled foreign-born employees whose U.S. employers can’t get the work visas needed to… Read More

To thrive, immigration reform is a must

To thrive, immigration reform is a must

There were nearly $2 billion worth of crops left to rot in U.S. fields last year — crops that farmers depend on seasonal immigrant workers to pick. Immigrants who are providing labor in a field with an abundance of work to do and a shortage of domestic help to do… Read More

10 Polls Proving Public Support for Immigration Reform

10 Polls Proving Public Support for Immigration Reform

86% of Republicans believe Congress should take action to fix the immigration system – Harper Polling, June 2014 78% of GOP primary voters support a step-by-step approach to immigration reform – North Star Opinion Research, June 2014 71% of voters back sweeping change to immigration… Read More

Letter: Immigration policy reform necessary

Letter: Immigration policy reform necessary

Our American colleges and universities have a proud tradition of educating the world’s best and brightest. Parents from all over the world send their kids here for their education. Guess what happens after they graduate? Our broken immigration system gives them six months to get out of our country. Many… Read More

Labor shortage looms: Record crops coming and Mid-Columbia farmers not ready

Labor shortage looms: Record crops coming and Mid-Columbia farmers not ready

Columbia Basin and Yakima Valley farmers are looking for skilled workers to hand pick apples, harvest wine grapes, sort newly harvested onions and weed rows of blueberry bushes. They need them now, but finding enough workers is tough because of localized shortages of seasonal, skilled farmworkers and a tight labor… Read More

Congress's Top 9 Excuses For Not Fixing Immigration System

Congress’s Top 9 Excuses For Not Fixing Immigration System

The U.S. has a broken immigration system that slows our economic growth, jeopardizes our security, and has resulted in 11 million people living here illegally with no path to legal status. There is broad support across the political spectrum for reform, but Congress has repeatedly failed to act, citing a… Read More

10 Reasons Farmers Won’t Be Able to Feed You without Immigration Reform

10 Reasons Farmers Won’t Be Able to Feed You without Immigration Reform

72% of farm workers are foreign-born. According to a 2010 survey, 47% of agricultural employers are not satisfied with the H-2A visa program, the only visa program in the US designed to bring in temporary agricultural workers, and 42% will not use it because it… Read More

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