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Cleveland Plain Dealer: “U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan hears immigration panel at International Institute of Akron”
Those immigrants paid $126 million in taxes and had a spending power of $342 million in 2014, the latest year for which figures are available, says the research, conducted by the International Institute of Akron in partnership with the New American Economy. With immigration threatened by President Donald Trump, the institute on Tuesday presented the research to […]
Read MoreEven Facing Immigration Hurdles, This Singapore Native Started a $40 Million Business
“I would have started my business much earlier if not for the limitations posed by U.S. immigration laws,” says Shan-Lyn Ma, the co-founder and CEO of Zola – a $40 million modern wedding registry business. Ma, who was born in Singapore but grew up in Australia, moved to America in 2004 to pursue an […]
Read MoreNew Americans in Los Angeles
Immigrants have a positive impact on the Los Angeles economy through their high rates of workforce participation, large tax contributions, and spending power, according to a New American Economy (NAE) report. The report, New Americans in Los Angeles, finds: In 2014, foreign-born residents in Los Angeles County contributed $232.9 billion to the county’s GDP, with $95.3 billion from Hispanic […]
Read MoreNew Americans in Los Angeles
Immigrants have a positive impact on the Los Angeles economy through their high rates of workforce participation, large tax contributions, and spending power, according to a New American Economy (NAE) report. The report, New Americans in Los Angeles, finds: In 2014, foreign-born residents in Los Angeles County contributed $232.9 billion to the county’s GDP, with $95.3 billion from Hispanic […]
Read MoreCotton and Trump plot crackdown on legal immigration
Overlooked in Donald Trump’s campaign crusade against illegal immigration was his vow to crack down on legal immigration, too. Now, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a reliable Trump ally, is taking steps to execute that part of the president’s immigration vision — and it could provoke a showdown between two competing ends of the GOP: the […]
Read MoreTrump’s travel ban sows uncertainty for healthcare and medicine
Dr. Saif Muhsin started thinking about Canada after President Donald Trump issued an executive order Jan. 27 barring people from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Muhsin’s native Iraq, from entering the U.S. for 90 days. Muhsin, 34, is halfway through a four-year nephrology fellowship in Boston in a joint program of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham […]
Read MoreNew Study Shows the Economic Power of Immigrants in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA – Today, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Gary Toebben held a press conference to highlight the economic contributions of immigrants in Los Angeles County and the City of Los Angeles. The event marks the release of a New American Economy (NAE) report documenting the impact immigrants have […]
Read MoreCongressional Efforts to Repeal Immigration Executive Orders
Since President Donald Trump announced his immigration executive orders last month on border security, interior enforcement, halting all refugee admissions and banning nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for at least 90 days, there has been strong reaction by the public, litigators and on Capitol Hill. Members of the U.S. House of […]
Read MoreWill Congress Fund President Trump’s Executive Order on Border Enforcement?
President Donald Trump’s Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements executive order is an attempt to fulfill his campaign pledge to build a wall at the southern border, to provide additional resources to Border Patrol agents, to curtail due process at the border, and to increase detention along the southern border, including for those who are […]
Read MoreJeff Sessions Affirms Anti-Immigrant Views at Confirmation Hearing
Senator Jeff Sessions, who has been nominated to be Attorney General by President-elect Donald Trump, endured a 10-and-a-half-hour confirmation hearing this week where he answered questions on a wide range of issues from voting rights and immigration to anti-trust litigation. During his time in the Senate, Sessions has worked towards further restricting legal immigration, drastically […]
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