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Military Veteran: Discouraging Foreign Students Threatens U.S. Future
Fear. That’s the main thing Jim Mather says the international student population at the University of South Alabama is feeling right now, given the uncertain state of the American immigration system. As director of Friends of Internationals — a student ministry and community organization — he works directly with some 1,000 students, from more than 90 […]
Read MoreThe Government Is Seeking Feedback on Plans to Build a 30 Foot Concrete Wall on Border
This week the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is expected to issue a formal solicitation notice seeking ideas on how to design and build various types of wall structures along the Southwest border with Mexico. Currently, DHS has not publicly announced an estimate for how much a wall along the entire 1,954 mile border with […]
Read MoreBloomberg: Fix Immigration Without Sacrificing Innocent Children
Whoever said there are no bad ideas never spent any time in Washington. Many never get off the ground, thankfully, but one of the worst I can remember hearing is now under serious consideration by the Department of Homeland Security: forcibly separating children from their parents when families are apprehended crossing the U.S. border. In a […]
Read MoreAfter Accepting Immigrants, Kentucky Thrives
Since the city of Owensboro, Kentucky, began helping immigrants and refugees secure employment and affordable housing, something has happened: the local economy has grown 6 percent and unemployment has dropped to one of the lowest rates in the state. “A lot of these folks are entrepreneurs at heart,” says Joe Berry, the executive vice president […]
Read MoreThe Impact of Immigrant Women on America’s Labor Force
There are nearly 12 million immigrant (foreign-born) women workers in the United States today, comprising just over 7 percent of the total labor force.
Read MoreTucson Sentinel: Report: Immigrants living in Arizona contribute $21.4 billion to state’s economy
A New York group urging immigration reform has calculated that about 900,000 immigrants living in Arizona contribute at least $21.4 billion to the state’s economy through purchases as well as taxes. The Partnership for a New American Economy, a bipartisan group headed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, calculated immigrant economic contributions in […]
Read MoreHalt to Premium Processing of H-1B Visa Petitions Hurts Workers, Business and USCIS
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced it will halt premium processing of H-1B visa petitions on April 3, for up to six months. Through the H-1B visa category, employers can petition for highly educated professionals to work in “specialty occupations” that require at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent. This decision […]
Read MoreEntrepreneur from New Zealand Creates Jobs while Helping Americans Give Back
When Dale Nirvani Pfeifer stumbled upon a Facebook post about an Afghan teacher trying to build a school for girls, she immediately felt compelled to give. Yet it took a good half hour to hunt down the website and navigate the donation form. “How many people just give up?” she thought. “How much money gets […]
Read MoreWisconsin Dairy Farms Rely on Immigrant Labor
John Holevoet is the director of government affairs for the Dairy Business Milk Marketing Cooperative, a Midwest trade group. The Green Bay, Wisconsin, organization advocates for the industry and the farmers and workers that drive it — and that includes the region’s immigrant residents. “In Wisconsin, we rely pretty heavily on immigrant labor, especially in […]
Read MorePresident Trump to Replace Travel Ban Executive Order
President Trump re-issued his immigration executive order on Monday that halts all refugee admissions for at least 120 days and bans entry into the United States for nationals of six Muslim-majority countries. Those targeted by the previous version of the executive order are largely unchanged, except that Iraq was removed from the list of banned countries. […]
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