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Mayor Kasim Reed Celebrates Immigrant Heritage Month by Launching Office of Immigrant Affairs and New Welcoming Atlanta Website
ATLANTA – Mayor Kasim Reed announced the new Office of Immigrant Affairs and the Welcoming Atlanta website (www.welcomingatlanta.com) today as the City of Atlanta celebrates Immigrant Heritage Month. The Office of Immigrant Affairs and the Welcoming Atlanta website are two of the twenty recommendations put forth by the Welcoming Atlanta Working Group in September of 2014 […]
Read More3 Years In, It’s Increasingly Clear That DACA Benefits All of Us
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), President Obama’s deportation deferral program for DREAMers–undocumented young people brought to the United States as children–is celebrating its third birthday today. Three years in, we know that DACA is benefiting the individuals who receive it, and a growing pool of evidence suggests what many have anticipated since the program’s […]
Read MoreHouse GOP members for immigration reform persevere
The small-but-determined cohort of House Republicans fighting for immigration reform is down but not out. Despite recent setbacks, Republicans who support a pathway to legal status say they’re “absolutely” lobbying their conservative colleagues and there’s more support for reform in their caucus than meets the eye. Though the House narrowly stripped a minor pro-immigration provision […]
Read MoreU.S. Ranks 9th out of 38 Countries in Migrant Integration Policy Index Results
Immigration policy analysts released the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) results for the United States recently, including the survey’s implications for immigration and integration policy in the U.S. MIPEX is a tool which measures the immigration and integration policies of 38 countries across 167 indicators in eight policy areas: labor market mobility, family reunification, education, […]
Read MoreBorder Patrol Criminally Prosecuting Asylum Seekers, Government Report Finds
For years, the Border Patrol program “Operation Streamline” has criminally prosecuted asylum seekers in a terribly misguided effort to discourage them from reentering illegally again. A recent U.S. government report from DHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) said this practice may “violate U.S. treaty obligations.” Specifically, according to the OIG, the “use of Streamline” to […]
Read MorePolling and Focus Group Analysis Shows Cost of Opposing Immigration Reform in the 2016 Election
New York, NY —The New American Economy and Burning Glass Consulting today released new polling and focus group results analyzing the impact of candidate positions in support of or opposition to immigration reform in both the 2016 presidential primary and general elections. The poll and focus groups show that the benefits for candidates in opposing immigration […]
Read MoreHow 40 Million Immigrants Create Housing Wealth and Stabilize Communities
New research by Americas Society/Council of the Americas (AS/COA) and New American Economy (NAE) finds that the 40 million immigrants in the United States have created $3.7 trillion in housing wealth, helping stabilize less desirable communities where home prices are declining or would otherwise have declined. View more of the findings. Explore the interactive map. […]
Read MoreHow 40 Million Immigrants Create Housing Wealth and Stabilize Communities
New research by Americas Society/Council of the Americas (AS/COA) and New American Economy (NAE) finds that the 40 million immigrants in the United States have created $3.7 trillion in housing wealth, helping stabilize less desirable communities where home prices are declining or would otherwise have declined. View more of the findings. Explore the interactive map. […]
Read MoreHigh-Skilled Labor
There are many discrete changes to our current high-skilled immigration policies that would benefit American employers, American workers, and the U.S. economy as a whole, including: Increasing the arbitrarily low temporary and permanent visa caps: There were more than 230,000 H-1B applications in the first week for just 85,000 spots in 2015, resulting in a […]
Read MoreNorth Carolina’s Immigrant Population Demonstrates Financial Power Amid Rapid Growth
North Carolina’s immigrant populace emphasizes the financial power of non-native residents via their vital contributions to the state’s economy, according to a report commissioned by the North Carolina Justice Center. The immigrant population of North Carolina quintupled from 1990 to 2013, and those numbers mimicked growth on the national level. In 2013, approximately 41.3 million immigrants […]
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