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Small Ohio Town Would be ‘a Dead City’ Without Immigrants, Says Former Council Member
“If it wasn’t for the Latino community,” says Nelson Cintron Jr., “Painesville, Ohio would be a dead city.” Cintron knows the Painesville Hispanic community well. He owns La Nueva Mia 88.3FM WHWN, a noncommercial radio station that broadcasts throughout Lake County and as far as East Cleveland. It’s a news and culture hub for Painesville’s […]
Read MoreFarm Union Organizer Leads 22-day Hunger Strike on National Mall to Fight for Immigration Reform
Over his seven decades, labor leader Eliseo Medina has, quite literally, proven his hunger for immigration reform. In 2013, the retired international secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a man described by the Los Angeles Times as one of the most successful labor organizers in the country, engaged in a hunger fast on […]
Read MoreFarm Union Organizer Leads 22-day Hunger Strike on National Mall to Fight for Immigration Reform
Over his seven decades, labor leader Eliseo Medina has, quite literally, proven his hunger for immigration reform. In 2013, the retired international secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a man described by the Los Angeles Times as one of the most successful labor organizers in the country, engaged in a hunger fast on […]
Read MoreNew Data Sheds Light on Sprawling, Often For-Profit, Immigration Detention System
It is easy to forget at times just how sprawling and labyrinthine the U.S. immigration detention system truly is. But this is an important fact to keep in mind. Due to the sheer size and complexity of the detention system, detainees are easily “lost” to their family members and attorneys. At any time, with no […]
Read MoreSenegalese-American City Council Candidate Inspires Columbus Immigrants
Ibrahima Sow has made it his life’s mission to help immigrants in Columbus, Ohio, become active members of American civic and political life. In 2015, just one year out of college, Sow ran for city council promising to represent the city’s immigrant community. He lost to well-funded incumbents, but in other ways the campaign was […]
Read MoreManischewitz: One Immigrant’s Matzo Success Story
The annual Jewish holiday of Passover began this past weekend and will be observed by Jews worldwide until this Saturday. Passover marks the freedom of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery and their biblical Exodus from Egypt under the leadership of Moses. To mark this religious holiday, PNAE takes a look at the history of Jewish […]
Read MoreGOP Perfects Its Formula for Losing the Latino Vote
After each of the last few national elections, Republican strategists prognosticated that despite their low support among Latino voters, the Republican Party could begin to win them over by talking to them about kitchen-table issues like the economy and job creation. However, they also warned that if the party didn’t find new rhetoric and begin […]
Read MoreWeekend Reading: Highlights from this week’s immigration news (April 18 – 22)
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court (WSJ) began hearing oral arguments in the state-led effort to block President Obama’s expanded executive orders, DAPA and an expanded DACA program. With the recent death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the high court could end in a 4-4 deadlock, effectively halting the programs until the next administration. This week also […]
Read MoreEarth Day: Immigrant Contributions to Clean Tech in America
Today is Earth Day, a globally celebrated movement for education, action, and change around environmental issues that began in 1970. Like Elon Musk, many immigrants have contributed to building a clean and green future in the United States by creating many environmentally focused start-ups here. Here are a few examples of how energy-conscious immigrants used […]
Read MoreImmigration Court Backlog Shows No Sign of Shrinking
The latest figures show that the number of cases pending in immigration court continue to grow. According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), there were 486,206 cases in the backlog as of the end of March. This is almost 30,000 more pending cases than Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) Director Juan Osuna reported […]
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