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Public Education for Immigrant Students: Understanding Plyler v. Doe
This fact sheet provides an overview of the Supreme Court’s decision in Plyler v. Doe and subsequent efforts by states and localities to avoid compliance with the decision.
Read MoreDream Come True: Obama Administration Announces Relief for DREAMers
Washington. D.C. – The American Immigration Council applauds today’s announcement by the Obama administration that it will grant deferred action to undocumented youth who were brought to the United States as small children and who have been raised and educated in communities around the country. Today’s announcement builds on the prosecutorial discretion initiatives already undertaken […]
Read MoreImmigrant-Owned Small Businesses Add to CO Economy
Public News Service: Denver June 14, 2012 Immigrant-owned small businesses are an important part of the Colorado and national economy, according to a new report from the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute. Colorado has roughly 13,000 immigrant-owned small businesses – those with 100 employees or less – according to the report, which says those businesses earn […]
Read MoreBoom in Immigrant Small Business Owners in NYC: Report
Wall Street Journal: Metropolis June 14, 2012 Foreign-born owners of small business in the New York metropolitan area grew by 66% between 1990 and 2010, according to a Fiscal Policy Institute report released Thursday. Lead author David Dyssegaard Kallick attributed the growth to increases in the overseas-born population during the same period. “Immigrants are playing […]
Read MoreImmigrant Entrepreneurship On The Rise In US: Study
The Huffington Post June 14, 2012 Immigrants are assuming a bigger role on Main Street, according to a new report from the Fiscal Policy Institute’s Immigration Research Initiative. Immigrants now make up 18 percent of small-business owners in the United States, a six percent increase from 20 years ago. The report found that 37 percent […]
Read MoreImmigrants’ Role in the Small Business Economy Grows
Bloomberg Businessweek June 14, 2012 The share of U.S. small businesses owned by immigrants has expanded by 50 percent since 1990, with almost one-fifth of business owners born outside the country, according to a new report (PDF) by the Fiscal Policy Institute. The number of foreign-born business owners has increased in tandem with the immigrant […]
Read MoreWant to Move a Worker? to the U.S.? Good Luck
Bloomberg Businessweek June 14, 2012 As director of Oracle’s (ORCL) U.S. immigration program, Denise Rahmani arranges work papers for foreign employees the company wants to bring to the U.S. Last year, she says, the federal government denied 38 percent of Oracle’s visa requests. “It used to be almost none of them got rejected,” Rahmani says. […]
Read MoreNo Hiring New H-1B Visa Holders for the Next 15 Months
Forbes June 13, 2012 H-1B temporary visas are important because they typically are the only practical way for a skilled foreign national, including international students educated on U.S. campuses, to work long-term in the United States. Despite this, U.S. companies will not be able to hire anyone on a new H-1B visa for a long […]
Read MoreDouglas Baker: We’re Turning Away Entrepreneurs. Fix Our Immigration Policy
Twin Cities Pioneer Press June 13, 2012 Last week’s jobs report said employers added only 69,000 jobs in May. This was a disappointing statistic, but also a somewhat misleading one as it implies a simplicity that doesn’t exist. In fact, hundreds of thousands of jobs were both created and eliminated last month. For perspective, in […]
Read MoreREGION: A Third of Inland Small-Business Owners are Immigrants
The Press-Enterprise June 13, 2012 In an Indiana Avenue strip mall just off Highway 91 in Riverside, there’s an Egyptian-run dry cleaner, a Thai-owned postal-services shop, a Mexican-operated Christian bookstore, a Chinese foot-massage business, a Cambodian-owned deli and an Egyptian-run pizza cafe. Only one business in the center has a U.S.-born owner. Such concentrations of […]
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