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Business Leaders Must Speak Out Against Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric
Like Donald Trump, I am an entrepreneur and investor, and I am also driven by a desire to “make America great again.” But he and I have very different visions about how to do that, especially around the issue of immigration. I have tried to steer clear of politics and focus on policy — in […]
Read MoreFirst Step in Visa Modernization: Making the Wait More Palatable
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has taken a positive step, together with the U.S. Department of State (DOS), to encourage noncitizens to “stay the course” as they endure long waits for permanent residence. Beginning in October, more people who are waiting in the United States for an immigrant visa to be available to them […]
Read MoreCandidates’ Immigration Stance Critical To Voters, Gallup Poll Shows
Where a 2016 presidential candidate stands on immigration is extremely important to one in five registered U.S. voters, according to a new Gallup poll released Wednesday. Twenty percent of respondents said they will only vote for a candidate who shares their views on immigration. An additional 60 percent said a candidate’s immigration policies will be one of […]
Read MoreNMPF report: Immigration reform needed to preserve dairy farms, protect consumers
Half of all workers on U.S. dairy farms are immigrants, and the damage from losing those workers would extend far beyond the farms, nearly doubling retail milk prices and costing the total U.S. economy more than $32 billion, according to a new report commissioned by the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF). The report, which includes the […]
Read MoreHow Should the U.S. Respond to the Syrian Refugee Crisis?
As the Syrian refugee crisis mounts, the United States is being pressured both internally and externally to take in more of the nearly 4 million refugees that have been displaced due to ongoing conflict in Syria. To date, the United States. has taken in 1,500, or less than 0.03 percent of the total in need. […]
Read MoreFive Families Released After Prolonged Detention
On Friday evening, just before the Labor Day weekend, the government released five mothers and their five children, ranging in age from three to seventeen years old, from the South Texas Residential Family Detention Facility in Dilley, Texas. These families, who sought refuge in the United States after fleeing violence in El Salvador and Honduras, […]
Read MoreWhat Will Congress Do on Immigration in September?
Today, Congress returned to work after its annual August recess. While September promises to be a busy month for the lawmakers, especially given that the Senate is in session for only twelve days and the House for ten, it is unlikely that immigration will be high on their “to do” list. Nonetheless, immigration will be […]
Read MoreThe True Immigration Crisis
Anchor babies, birthing centers, giant walls, mass deportations: The debate over immigration in the U.S. presidential campaign often calls to mind a hyperventilating Hollywood drama rather than a calm, intelligent discussion. The most urgent issue is not the cost of illegal immigration, because that cost is modest at worst. The challenge is to reform the country’s immigration […]
Read MoreNew Report Evaluates Scale of the Central American Refugee Influx
The Central American refugee influx along the U.S.-Mexico border, which generated so much press attention in 2014, is not going away anytime soon. The conditions which spur Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Hondurans to flee their countries in large numbers—namely, widespread violence and grinding poverty—have not changed. Nor has the fact that so many unaccompanied children are […]
Read MoreThe Virtues of Immigration
If you listen to Donald Trump — and, judging by the polls, a surprisingly large number of people are — immigration is an abomination. In The World According to the Donald, migrants, especially from Mexico, are “criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc.” who have been sent by the Mexican government to undermine the United States, with a […]
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