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New Report Helps Explain Why Central American Children Are Leaving Their Home Countries
Ever since President Barack Obama described the record number of minors traveling alone and crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as an “urgent humanitarian situation requiring a unified and coordinated Federal response,” the debate about how to address the unaccompanied migrant children has become increasingly heated, especially about the reasons leading them to come here. News reports […]
Read MoreCongress Needs Reminding of Unaccompanied Migrant Children’s Plight
The House Judiciary Committee’s June 25 hearing was supposed to be about the recent surge in the numbers of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America who are arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. Had this really been the subject of the hearing, the topic of escalating gang violence in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador would have […]
Read MoreOn World Refugee Day, Consider Today’s Migrants Fleeing Violence
Governments and organizations around the world mark June 20 by honoring refugees for their struggle and their contribution to their new country with World Refugee Day. As we tackle a humanitarian crisis at the southern border of the United States, this day is an important reminder of why we offer humanitarian protection to individuals fleeing […]
Read MoreLegal Concerns Push Counties to Limit ICE Detainers
Doña Ana County in New Mexico announced this week it will stop honoring detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials at the county jail, becoming the most recent in a string of local jurisdictions across the country to limit their compliance with detainers. According to the Las Cruces Sun-News, county commissioners approved […]
Read MoreReport: Slowdown in immigrant workers also translates to fewer opportunities for Americans
Americans would have better job opportunities if more foreign-born workers could make a living in America, a new report asserts. H-1B visa denials in 2007 and 2008 have had a negative impact on job opportunities and wage growth for U.S.-born technology workers in more than 200 U.S. metros since 2009, following these H-1B visa lotteries, according […]
Read MoreLoss of high-skilled immigrants hurts job growth and wages for U.S. workers
Deepthi Valli is weighing choices she’d rather not have to make: Return to India or enroll in graduate school. It doesn’t appear she can keep working at Cerner Corp. Valli, 26, is one of thousands of highly skilled foreign-born employees whose U.S. employers can’t get the work visas needed to keep them employed. Federal limits […]
Read MoreThis study showed that high-skilled immigrants create jobs for Americans
The tech industry has become one of the biggest interests lobbying for immigration reform, for a straightforward reason: they say they can’t find enough qualified workers here in the US. If the government issued more high-skilled visas, they say, they could hire immigrants to fill their vacancies — and the greater capacity would allow them to […]
Read MoreOver 100 Cities and Counties Now Riding the Anti-Detainer Wave
There have been four recent federal court decisions ruling that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents cannot require local jurisdictions to detain someone and that local law enforcement can be held liable for holding someone for no reason other than an ICE detainer. ICE detainers are written requests for local jails or other law enforcement […]
Read MoreImmigration Reform Needed Now, Not Later, For American Food Chain to Remain Intact Industry Leaders Say
Industry leaders involved in all aspects of America’s food supply met in Provo to discuss the immediate need for immigration reform and how the current system negatively impacts the U.S.’s food industry. Staffers from the offices Representative Jason Chaffetz and Chris Stewart met representatives from the Utah Farm Bureau, Utah Manufacturers Association, Utah Food Retailers […]
Read MoreImmigration and Economic Revitalization in America’s Cities
June marks the first annual Immigrant Heritage Month, a time to gather and share inspirational stories of how the United States has been fueled by our immigrant tradition. As such, in a June 1 post in Forbes, Carl Schramm describes immigration’s historical role in American cities’ industrial growth, as well as the role immigrants continue […]
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