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NY Mayor Bloomberg: Fix immigration to boost economy
Chicago Sun-Times August 14, 2012 ‘America is committing economic suicide by failing to confront the issue of immigration reform,” says New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. And he’s on a nationwide mission to force both presidential candidates to give specifics of how they will deal with the issue. Bloomberg says that “opening the doors to all […]
Read MoreBusting Myths About Deferred Action
Beginning today, undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children may officially submit requests for deferred action, a form of prosecutorial discretion that protects recipients from deportation and allows them to work legally in the United States for up to two years. As might be expected, numerous inaccuracies have surfaced in media coverage and other […]
Read MoreCan Deferred Action Beneficiaries Get Driver’s Licenses?
As the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative begins accepting applications this week, many are wondering whether beneficiaries of the program will be eligible to obtain a state driver’s license. At this point the answer is: it depends.
Read MoreWhy Deferred Action is Not Amnesty
Long before President Obama announced his plan on deferred action for childhood arrivals, immigration restrictionists were arguing that any exercise of prosecutorial discretion benefitting undocumented immigrants was equivalent to “amnesty.” Consequently, it’s no surprise that one of the biggest myths supporters of the program have had to address is that deferred action is a type […]
Read MoreEB-5 Immigrant Investor Leahy Bill Approved by Senate
Digital Journal August 7, 2012 The EB-5 Visa program has already created literally thousands of jobs across the United States since the program inception in 1993. The newly passed “Leahy Bill” insures its continuation. Last week, the United States Senate approved the “Leahy Bill” which continued the U.S. Immigration’s EB-5 Visa Program providing a means […]
Read MoreNativist Group Publishes a Distorted Portrait of the Foreign-Born Population
The latest report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), Immigrants in the United States, suffers from a bad case of selective statistics. While purporting to be a neutral and scholarly demographic profile of the foreign-born population in the United States, the report is actually an anti-immigrant treatise adorned with charts and bar graphs. On […]
Read MoreStates Apply Brakes on Immigration Legislation in 2012
The National Conference on State Legislatures (NCSL) released its annual review of immigration legislation moving in statehouses around the country. NCSL found a significant, 40% decrease in the introduction of immigration legislation and a 20% decrease in states enacting immigration-related laws when compared to 2011. This decline is the first in years, and is reportedly […]
Read MoreNativist Group’s Report on Immigration Enforcement is Pure Fantasy
With its latest report on President Obama’s immigration-enforcement record, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has finally fallen down the rabbit hole and into immigration wonderland. Although FAIR has always played fast and loose with the facts, its new report rises to a new level of distortion. The report claims that President Obama has […]
Read MoreDemand Soars for Foreign Tech Workers
The Tennessean August 3, 2012 Pietro Valdastri visited Nashville for the first time almost a year ago, not as a tourist but as a new hire. Valdastri joined Vanderbilt University as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in September. In doing so, he left the university where he taught and earned a doctorate in bioengineering […]
Read MoreAdministration Releases Details on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
The Department of Homeland Security today released details on its plan to grant “deferred action” to immigrant youths who were brought to the country as children. The announcement, which was accompanied by an updated FAQ and other materials on how to apply, comes eight weeks after DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano revealed the initiative, which could […]
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