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America Benefits from Growing Economic Clout of DACA Recipients

Now marking its fifth year, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative has been a much-needed lifeline for more than one million young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. DACA was announced by the Obama administration on June 15, 2012. DACA granted a temporary reprieve from deportation, as well […]

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Foreign-born STEM Workers in the United States

Foreign-born workers make up a growing share of the country’s STEM workforce and are critical to the country’s innovation, and STEM workers are responsible for many of the cutting-edge ideas and technologies that create jobs and raise the living standards of U.S. households.

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Connecticut Mirror: English Learners: Other Places Are Showing What Works

Donación Garcia wanted what was best for his daughter Gabriella, so he enrolled her in an English-only classroom and declined his district’s offer to also provide instruction in Spanish, a language his family often uses at home. “We thought she needed English,” said Garcia, whose daughter is now a high school freshman in Portland, Oregon. […]

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Why Are the Immigration Courts So Backlogged? Government Findings May Surprise You

Anyone familiar with the immigration system knows that the immigration courts have an enormous backlog which has persisted—and grown—for more than a decade. As of April 2017, the immigration court backlog topped 585,930 cases, more than double the pending cases in fiscal year (FY) 2006 (212,000). The immigration court backlog means that many people wait […]

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After Seven Generations, NC Farm Crippled by Migrant Labor Shortage

Kirby Johnson’s family has been farming in Henderson County, in southwest North Carolina, for seven generations. “All I’ve ever done is farm, and my daddy before me, and my grandfather before him,” he says. In addition to running his own 600-acre farm, Johnson helps manage another of his family’s companies, Flavor 1st Growers and Packers, […]

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Head of Hispanic Leadership Council Makes Economic Case for Reform

Greg Torrales first moved to South Carolina in 2007 to work as a translator and help immigrants navigate the healthcare industry. Today he is the director of the South Carolina Hispanic Leadership Council (SCHLC), which provides social services for the state’s Hispanic residents. “Before I moved to South Carolina, I described myself as an advocate,” […]

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President’s Tweets Dim His Prospects for Supreme Court Review of The Travel Ban Case

President Trump reignited discussion around his controversial travel ban through a series of early morning tweets on Monday, in a move legal experts say could ultimately cripple his administration’s chances of restoring the ban through the Supreme Court. In these tweets, the president blew a giant hole in his legal case when he insisted that his […]

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Farmer: Without Migrant Labor, Michigan Crops Would Go to Waste

Fred Leitz would like to hire American workers to handpick the tomatoes, cucumbers, berries, and apples that he grows on his 700-acre farm.  But the fourth-generation Michigan farmer says that’s just not possible. “Every year we try, and every year we get a few. But not enough,” he says. That leaves him dependent on migrant […]

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The Detroit News: Opinion: Immigrants revitalize Detroit

Immigration has been quietly powering the population growth, neighborhood revitalization, innovation, entrepreneurship, and broad diversity upon which a bright future for Detroit’s neighborhoods and current residents can be secured. New data released this week by the New American Economy, a collection of more than 500 Republican, Democratic, and independent mayors and business leaders who support […]

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New Americans in Detroit

While recent Census reports show continued population loss for the city, an NAE & Global Detroit report highlights that immigrants, who have added over 4,000 new residents to the city between 2010 and 2014 (a 12.1 percent rate of growth), are helping the city to stop its population decline. The newly-released data snapshot notes that while immigrant […]

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