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Former Hotel Executive Says his Chain Couldn’t Have Thrived without the Contributions of Refugee Workers
Tom Negri has worked in hotels his entire life. After graduating from high school, he moved to Colombia for school and work. At the Hotel Irotama in Colombia, he met his future wife. By age 21, while attending the New York Hotel School, Negri was married and working six days a week at the Loews […]
Read MoreUniversity President Once Fled the Communists — Now He Presides Over a Diverse Group of Promising Students
As President of Miami Dade College, Eduardo Padrón presides over 170,000 students, most of whom are immigrants or the children of immigrants, Graduates include mayors, lawyers, police and fire chiefs, and prominent political figures such as U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the first Cuban-American ever elected to Congress. “From the very beginning, in 1960, this […]
Read MoreVirginia Pastor Doesn’t Want to See his Parish’s Families Torn Apart by Immigration
As lead pastor at Iglesia Asambleas de Dios Vida, also known as Assemblies of God Church, in Manassas, Virginia, Juan Hernandez leads a church of approximately 200 congregants, many of whom are immigrants. “People from different countries bring so much knowledge,” says Hernandez. “They are doctors and lawyers. We have people trying to start small […]
Read MoreSouth Carolina Nonprofit Director Knows Firsthand the Importance of a Welcoming Community
As a Mexican immigrant, Adela Mendoza knows the importance of a welcoming community. After arriving in the United States at age 24 to study English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, she married an American and set out to make a place for herself in her new home. When her husband, a scientist, accepted […]
Read MoreComparing the House and Senate Plans to Fund Immigration Agencies
The House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committees unveiled and passed out of committee their budgets for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which begins on October 1, 2016. Although the House and Senate have proposed funding some of the requests made by the President in his FY 2017 proposed budget, they did […]
Read MoreLearning from Our Past: The Refugee Experience in the United States
This report provides background on the refugee experience in the United States, including welcoming and exclusionary responses, the impacts of these disparate reactions, and lessons to consider in determining our response to the current refugee crisis
Read MoreEntrepreneur says Immigration Policy Makes It Harder for him to Grow His Business and Create American Jobs
The technology firm FreshAir Sensor recently won a New Hampshire pitch competition sponsored by AOL founder Steve Case that netted the small startup a $100,000 investment and a glowing compliment from the venture capitalist. “If they innovate successfully, they can build a great company, create a lot of jobs, and change the world,” Case said. […]
Read MoreSix Facts You Should Know About Refugees
Refugees and asylees are a relatively small share of U.S. immigrants – just eight percent of all immigrants living in the U.S. These are individuals who are fleeing persecution, war, conflict, oppression, and human rights violations in their home countries and who have been granted the ability to reside permanently in the U.S. A new […]
Read MoreImmigrant Restauranteur Creates 250 American Jobs, Says Each One ‘Makes Me So Happy’
After the launch of his first restaurant — Frida Mexican Cuisine, in Beverly Hills, California — Vicente del Rio went on to open nine more Frida restaurants. Del Rio’s expansion efforts are ongoing, with another two restaurants slated to open this year. Today, his Frimex Hospitality Group currently employs more than 250 people, with over […]
Read MoreNadina Feakins Helps Give New Immigrants a Voice
When Nadina Feakins left Argentina as a teenager, she admits that she had no idea what she had gotten herself into. “I was just a kid and I had dreams of getting an education in America,” she says. “I thought education was the way, but I was uneducated about what kind of a struggle I […]
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