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In Long-Predicted Shift, California Latinos Outnumber Whites
LOS ANGELES — The long-expected moment when Latinos surpassed whites as California’s largest racial or ethnic group has come and gone. Hispanic Californians began to narrowly outnumber white Californians sometime in the first half of 2014, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released in late June. The state had some 14.99 million Latinos compared with […]
Read MoreVisas for Foreign Workers
To the Editor: Re “Workers Betrayed by Visa Loopholes” (editorial, June 15): For years, we, along with a broad coalition of advocates, have pushed for comprehensive immigration reform that would spur economic growth and benefit American workers. What we are seeing today is what happens when Congress defers action on a critical issue and leaves […]
Read MoreHow Growing Latino Economic and Political Power Prevailed Over Donald Trump
When Donald Trump threw his hat into the ring for the GOP Presidential nomination, he made some of the most racist and offensive remarks ever made by a modern-day Presidential candidate, calling Mexican’s “rapists” and criminals. In making these charged remarks he ignored a critical new reality in modern American politics: the road to the […]
Read MoreWhy Our Humanitarian Obligations to Children Crossing the Border Still Matter
Last summer, the flow of Central Americans seeking refuge in the United States—many of them children—reached its height. One of the government’s first responses to the increased numbers was to reinstitute family detention, with the opening of a makeshift facility in Artesia, New Mexico, one year ago tomorrow. Today, the flow at our southern border […]
Read MoreInteractive Map: How Will New Voters Impact Election Results
New American Economy developed an interactive map that allows users to adjust Hispanic and Asian voter turnout and party support in each state to explore how new Hispanic and Asian voters could impact the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. The map uses expanded data from a research brief produced by NAE, “The Changing Face of […]
Read MoreInteractive Map: How Will New Voters Impact Election Results
New American Economy developed an interactive map that allows users to adjust Hispanic and Asian voter turnout and party support in each state to explore how new Hispanic and Asian voters could impact the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. The map uses expanded data from a research brief produced by NAE, “The Changing Face of […]
Read MoreInteractive Map Projects Potential Impact of Hispanic and Asian Voters in 2016 Elections
By 2016, 19.2 Million New Hispanic and Asian Voters Could Join the U.S. Electorate and Impact Election Results in Key States. By 2020, that Number Could Reach 25.6 Million. New York, NY —As 2016 candidates jockey for the minority vote, the New American Economy released an interactive map that allows users to adjust Hispanic […]
Read MoreRead This Year’s ‘Celebrate America’ Fifth Grade Creative Writing Contest Entry
The American Immigration Council is proud to announce the first place winner of the 18th annual Celebrate America Fifth Grade Creative Writing Contest. This contest inspires educators to bring U.S. immigration history and lessons into their classrooms and gives fifth graders the opportunity to learn more about immigration to the U.S. and to explain, in […]
Read MoreSon of Migrant Farmworkers Named U.S. Poet Laureate
The next poet laureate of the United States is Juan Felipe Herrera, the son of migrant farm workers. Herrera will be the first-ever Chicano poet laureate, signaling, as the Los Angeles Times put it, “…an acknowledgment of the importance of Spanish and bilingual culture in America.” Herrera writes in English and Spanish, often using both […]
Read More3 Years In, It’s Increasingly Clear That DACA Benefits All of Us
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), President Obama’s deportation deferral program for DREAMers–undocumented young people brought to the United States as children–is celebrating its third birthday today. Three years in, we know that DACA is benefiting the individuals who receive it, and a growing pool of evidence suggests what many have anticipated since the program’s […]
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