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Hartford Business (CT): Visa delay adds uncertainty for CT immigrant- entrepreneurs
Getting a work visa in the United States can be difficult, and the federal government this month put up another roadblock for hopeful immigrants. The so-called International Entrepreneurs program, created under an executive order from former President Barack Obama, is now postponed until next March. An estimated 3,000 immigrant-entrepreneurs — including some in Connecticut — […]
Read MoreBloomberg BNA: Need Employees for Unusual Hours? Seek Foreign-Born Workers
There are jobs in nearly every industry that require employees to work odd hours, and immigrants are increasingly more likely to fill these openings, research finds. Documented immigrants are willing to take these shifts and are an untapped pool to recruit for jobs that employers are likely having trouble filling in today’s competitive labor market, […]
Read MoreSix Months of Immigration Enforcement Under the New Administration
Now that we have passed the six-month mile marker of the new administration, the wheels of immigration enforcement have had a chance to settle into their new rhythms. Enforcement targets have expanded, enforcement tools have been sharpened, and enforcement locations have been widened, triggering pervasive fear of deportation and separation among immigrant families. President Trump’s […]
Read MoreDream Act of 2017 Introduced With Bipartisanship in the Senate
The bipartisan Dream Act of 2017 was just introduced by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) in the U.S. Senate. The bill provides legal status, as well as a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrant youth who entered the United States before the age of 18. The Dream Act, if passed into law, […]
Read MorePolitics Professor: U.S. Universities — and Their Towns — Need Foreign Students
As a child, Leslie Caughell watched her father, who was born in Canada, navigate the “anxiety-inducing” U.S. immigration system. It’s something the family can laugh about now. But far more anxiety inducing today, says Caughell, a political science professor at Virginia Wesleyan University, is the prospect of U.S. universities losing international students — students vital […]
Read MoreHouse Committee Funds Administration’s Super-Sized Immigration Enforcement
In the first week of his presidency, through executive orders, the president laid out harsh proposals for immigration enforcement and border security. However, much of what the president proposes to do requires generous amounts of taxpayer dollars allocated by Congress. In May, the president submitted a proposed budget which provides record levels of funding for […]
Read MoreRepublican Senator: My State’s Economy Needs Immigration Reform
Before becoming a United States senator in 2015, Thom Tillis led North Carolina’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives during a time when the state unemployment rate dropped after the Great Recession, from 10.4 percent, in 2010, to 4.5 percent, in 2017. Now, however, the state is facing a particularly acute labor shortage in industries dependent on […]
Read MoreU.S. Farmer Moves His Operations South — Where the Workers Are
Each winter, an estimated two-thirds of the vegetables consumed in the United States are grown in California’s Imperial Valley. One of the largest operations there is the Scaroni Family of Companies, a multimillion-dollar farming enterprise that employs more than 5,000 people and, according to owner Steve Scaroni, to some degree handles, between its harvesting and […]
Read MoreImmigration may be the biggest – and least expected – legislative victory this year
President Trump caused some head scratching when he told a plane full of journalists en route to France that “what I’d like to do is a comprehensive immigration plan.” But as the Russia investigations drag on, the prospects for health care reform are on hold, and tax reform continues to be a work in progress, […]
Read MoreHawaii Judge Rules That Grandparents and Other Close Relatives Are Excluded from the Travel Ban
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson ruled last week that “grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins of persons in the United States,” as well as refugees connected to resettlement agencies should be exempt from the Trump administration’s travel ban. This ruling came as a result of a request by the State of […]
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