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Outside the Wire: How Barring the DACA-Eligible Population from Enlisting Weakens our Military

Executive Summary Current debates about how to handle the population of Dreamers in the United States frequently focus on either humanitarian or rule-of-law concerns. Advocates for this population, which includes the 1.9 million undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children, frequently argue that it is wrong to penalize or threaten young adults with deportation. […]

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After Years Without Her Own Son, Peruvian Designer Calls on Washington to Pass the Dream Act

When Flor Cabello was starting her interior-decoration company in Westchester County, New York, she heard the word “no” a lot. Friends said her Peruvian accent and heritage would be off-putting to many of the area’s U.S.-born upper-middle-class residents — that is, her target clientele. Bank after bank refused to give her a loan. But Cabello […]

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Greenville, South Carolina, Chamber Lobbies Congress to Let Dreamers Stay

Carlos Phillips, CEO of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, says most of his chamber’s  2,200 businesses support federal action to protect Dreamers, the young people eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). These undocumented immigrants — brought to the country as children, raised and educated here — are an asset to employers and a […]

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U.S. Immigration Officials Frequently Use Coercive Tactics to Deport Mexican Migrants

U.S. immigration officials have a long history of overstepping the boundaries of their legal authority and violating the constitutional and other legal rights of migrants at the Southwest border. Allegations of abuse throughout the apprehension, detention, and deportation process are not new; immigrant rights organizations and media outlets have reported on those violations for years. […]

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Payson Roundup: Study: Foreign born workers buttress the economy

Arizona needs its 920,000 foreign-born residents, both legal and otherwise, to fuel the state’s economy, according to a new study and some business leaders. The report Monday by the New American Economy says those families had $21.4 billion in household income in 2014, the most recent figures available. They paid $1.7 billion in state and […]

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DACA Recipient Fears Losing Ability to Support Her Younger Siblings

When Blanca Carrillo Salmeron, an undocumented immigrant in Norman, Oklahoma, received protection from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) order in 2013, a year after it was signed, the whole family breathed a sigh of relief. Carrillo Salmeron’s parents were also undocumented, and they had four other children — then between the […]

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Lancaster Online: “Lancaster Chamber wins Gateways for Growth Challenge Award focused on immigrants”

Lancaster Chamber has gotten another grant from two national organizations that seek to integrate the new Americans into local communities. The Gateways for Growth Challenge Award from New American Economy and Welcoming America presented to Lancaster and 24 other communities is to develop a plan for welcoming immigrants into the workforce and broader community. In […]

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Deportations in the Dark

Mexican migrants suffer a host of violations, abuses, and ill treatment while in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities.

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Lawsuit Filed Challenging Delay of International Entrepreneur Rule

Entrepreneurs, startup companies, and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) delay of the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER).

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Iraq War Vet: Immigrants Critical to Fargo’s Growth

Around the 2016 presidential election, when some politicians in North Dakota introduced anti-immigration bills, the Fargo City Council and local business community pushed back. The reason: The city’s economic health depends on new Americans. “We have between 5,000 and 8,000 open jobs in Fargo-Moorhead, and we can’t honestly afford to be picky about where employees […]

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