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California Passes Groundbreaking Legislation to Prevent “Shattered Families”
By Yali Lincroft, Policy Consultant, First Focus Campaign for Children. Late last month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law two bills – AB2015 and SB1064 – which address the nightmare scenarios that can befall parents and their children caught up in the immigration system. The recent report Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigrant […]
Read MoreU.S. Quotas Hinder Employment Visas
Buffalo Law Journal October 11, 2012 Despite grim employment figures coming out of the nation’s capital, there is a shortage of skilled workers in the fields of science, medicine and computer technology. Local companies and organizations often look to international workers to fill those voids. Unfortunately, they find that getting proper documentation to bring (or […]
Read MorePresidential Debates: Brought to You by an Immigrant
Millions of Americans will tune into tonight’s vice-presidential debate, but few will know the origins of the presidential debate process. While we’ve come to think of these debates as a way to learn more about the candidates vying for our votes, the idea of holding public debates, like so many other great American ideas, can […]
Read MoreReport Reveals DREAM Act Passage Could Inject Billions Into Economy
Examiner.com October 10, 2012 The much-debated and as yet unrealized federal DREAM Act, a proposed law that would provide a path to legal residency status for some young undocumented immigrants, brought to this country as children, would add $329 billion to the U.S. economy and create 1.4 million new jobs by 2030. These findings are […]
Read MoreKansans Push for Kobach Recall
Activists in Kansas are mounting a campaign to recall the state’s Secretary of State and notorious immigration restrictionist Kris Kobach. According to the Associated Press, there is a movement to collect signatures to recall him. For months, several groups have held rallies and press conferences, accusing Kobach of spending too much time working on his […]
Read MoreSupreme Court Case Highlights Cruel Intersection of Immigration and Drug Laws
Tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a complicated immigration case involving how courts should determine whether a crime qualifies as an “aggravated felony.” Once the legal clutter is set aside, however, the case provides a clear example of how our nation’s immigration laws often fail to account for the most basic considerations […]
Read MoreNew Report Reveals the Economic Benefits Of Passing the DREAM Act
Hispanically Speaking News October 5, 2012 What would happen if the United States were to grant a pathway to legal status to an estimated 2.1 million eligible youth in our country by passing the DREAM Act? That’s the focus of a new report released by the Center for American Progress and Partnership for a New […]
Read MoreNew Report Shows Economic Benefits of Passing the DREAM Act
The Center for American Progress and the Partnership for a New American Economy have released a new study entitled, “The Economic Benefits of Passing the DREAM Act,” which finds that the passage of the DREAM Act would add $329 billion to the U.S. economy and create 1.4 million new jobs by 2030, a significant boost […]
Read MoreThe Economic Case For Immigration
U-T San Diego September 30, 2012 Political rhetoric and restrictive laws aimed at undocumented immigrants have made this army of manual laborers and nannies the villains of the 21st century. This is the premise of a new book that outlines how such factors, in the end, hurt the American economy. Journalist Pilar Marrero’s “Killing the […]
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Plan To Boost Skilled Workforce Shows Promise
Seattle Times September 28, 2012 Microsoft’s proposal that Congress expand slots for high-skilled foreign workers while adding fees to such visas to boost investment in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education kills two birds with one stone. First, it helps to solve a business-stifling shortage of such workers and provides a way to prepare […]
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