Ankit Agarwal, PhD
The world’s cutting edge research is happening right now at US Universities. That’s why I came to do my PhD at the Iowa State University, and continued postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I worked to find innovative ways to help the 2.1 million US burn victims in… Read More
Frequently Asked Questions about the Asylum Clock Class Action Settlement
Frequently Asked Questions about the Asylum Clock Class Action Settlement Washington, D.C.—The American Immigration Council’s Legal Action Center (LAC), along with its co-counsel, recently announced a settlement of A.B.T., et al. v. USCIS, et al., a nationwide class action challenging the manner in which the United States Citizenship and… Read More
Cheryl Yeoh
My startup Reclip.It is a personalized list-making app featuring weekly ads and digital coupons from top retail stores like Walmart, Macy’s, Walgreens, Target, BestBuy, Home Depot, CVS, and others. The company had raised about $1 million in funding from 500Startups, Great Oaks Venture Capital, and angel investors in Silicon Valley… Read More
Obama Immigration-Reform Campaign Will Challenge House GOP
Sandy Fitzgerald, Newsmax President Barack Obama is heading to some of the battleground states he won in November — with strong Latino support — in an attempt to push immigration-reform legislation through the Republican-controlled House. According to The Wall Street Journal, Obama is planning trips to Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado,… Read More
Analysis: House immigration legislation won’t look anything like Senate’s reform plan
The Houston Chronicle Congress returns next week from a hot July 4 recess and faces another scorcher: immigration reform. Following an overwhelming 2-to-1 vote in the Senate for comprehensive reform that includes a path to citizenship for 11 million immigrants, the House will now decide how to proceed. The tact… Read More
Klaus Kleinfeld
For Alcoa to a remain America’s leader in Aluminum research, innovation, and production, we increasingly rely on our ability to hire, train, and keep a diversified workforce that draws upon talent from this country as well as from abroad. I joined the Partnership for a New American Economy as I… Read More
Gary D. Leitzell
An important and exciting result of our city’s adherence to creative thinking is our Welcome Dayton: Immigrant-Friendly City Initiative. The Welcome Dayton program was slowly and carefully developed over the course of a year, with input from the City’s Human Relations Council, Police, and numerous community organizations. In response, our… Read More
The economic benefits of free trade in people
Linda Nazareth, The Globe and Mail If you believe that free trade in goods and services enhances growth (I do, as do all but a seriously select group of economists), then it is not much of a stretch to say that free trade in people should do the same thing. Read More
Douglas M. Baker Jr.
Ecolab was born in 1923 when our founder M. J. Osborne created a product that cleaned carpets on the spot, eliminating the need for hotels to shut down while their carpets were being cleaned. By staying focused on finding solutions to customer needs, Ecolab has grown to become the global… Read More
Texas Republican Personifies Challenge for Immigration Bill
The New York Times July 3, 2013 GONZALES, Tex. — The questions about immigration at Representative Blake Farenthold’s town meeting were urgent and to the point. So were the answers. Mr. Farenthold, a Republican, told an audience here on Tuesday that the overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws that recently… Read More
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