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Weekend Reading: Highlights from this week’s immigration news (June 6-10)
This week, we feature another outstanding 2016 graduate, Larissa Martinez, a hard-working valedictorian in Texas who is headed to Yale University in the fall. As the New York Post reports in this uplifting video of her speech, she used the podium “to announce her status as an ‘undocumented’ immigrant, causing a larger reaction than she […]
Read MoreImmigrant Workers Vital to North Carolina’s Varied Crops, says NC Farm Bureau President
During his decades as a tobacco farmer, Larry Wooten has seen the supply of native-born farm workers gradually wane and immigrant labor become increasingly critical to North Carolina’s agricultural sector. He says the existing seasonal guest-worker program isn’t capable of meeting farmers’ labor needs and that reform is needed to help the state’s farmers and […]
Read MoreDetention of Transgender Immigrants Expanding with Texas Facility
The massive immigrant detention industry is still growing. According to officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the government is adding to its existing 637 facilities by opening a new privately-run detention center in Texas later this year. The 700-bed facility, which will be operated by the private prison corporation Emerald Correctional Management, includes a […]
Read MoreLack of Labor: A Sweet Potato Farmer’s “Nightmare”
Every winter, Melissa Edmondson sends a stream of paperwork along with a $4,000 check to a firm in Georgia that specializes in processing visas for seasonal immigrant labor. The firm mails all the appropriate forms to all the appropriate agencies – state and federal offices scattered around the country – but Edmondson still needs to […]
Read MoreAdministration Seeks to Protect DACA Recipients from Judge Hanen’s Unusual Order in Immigration Case
This week, the Obama administration filed a stay motion, a request to halt Judge Hanen’s highly extraordinary order in May telling the Department of Justice (DOJ) to turn over personal information of about 50,000 or so individuals who have received three-year reprieves from deportation and three-year work permits under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals […]
Read MoreStates Will Need Immigrants to Counter Aging of the Labor Force
New population projections from the University of Virginia’s Demographics Research Group show that in many states in the Northeast and Midwest, growth of the working-age population is slowing due to aging, lower fertility rates, and people moving out of the state. The aging of the workforce in the working-age population can mean shrinking workforces and […]
Read MoreWhat the Senate Proposed on Immigration in the Department of Homeland Security Budget
This week, the Senate Appropriations Committee unveiled and unanimously passed out of Committee their budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which begins on October 1, 2016. The House of Representatives is yet to introduce their version of the appropriations bill. While the Senate has proposed to fund some […]
Read MoreArizona Governor Signs Biliteracy Law, as Top Arizona Employers and Industry Seek Bilingual Talent
PHOENIX, ARIZONA (May 24, 2016) – Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) has signed a law establishing a Seal of Biliteracy program to recognize high school graduates who have attained proficiency in at least one language in addition to English. The Seal of Biliteracy has been hailed as an important initiative to promote foreign language learning and greater […]
Read MoreLanguage Diversity and the Workforce: The Growing Need for Bilingual Workers in Arizona’s Economy
Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) has signed into law [[H.B. XX]], establishing a Seal of Biliteracy program to recognize high school graduates who have attained proficiency in at least one language in addition to English. The bill’s passage coincides with the release of a Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE) research brief, “Language Diversity and […]
Read MoreLanguage Diversity and the Workforce: The Growing Need for Bilingual Workers in Arizona’s Economy
Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) has signed into law [[H.B. XX]], establishing a Seal of Biliteracy program to recognize high school graduates who have attained proficiency in at least one language in addition to English. The bill’s passage coincides with the release of a Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE) research brief, “Language Diversity and […]
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