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Immigrant Children Scoring High in STEM and Overall Achievement, Notes Houston Immigration Lawyer
Law Firm Newswire November 7, 2012 Houston, TX (Law Firm Newswire) November 7, 2012 – According to a new study by John Hopkins University, immigrant children who emigrated to the U.S. prior to their teenage years score higher in school engagement and academic achievements than U.S-born kids. The study found that this was true for […]
Read MoreElections Demand a New Way Forward on Immigration
Even before the election was called for President Obama last night, pundits and pollsters were remarking on the fact that immigration—or more specifically, anti-immigrant policies—were a death knell for Mitt Romney. Today, the analysis of whether and how the Republican party recovers from its devastatingly poor showing among Latinos—the key demographic group of the 21st […]
Read MoreFixing The Unemployment Problem
The Washington Examiner November 6, 2012 With the new Labor Department report showing slow job creation in October and an unemployment rate close to 7.9 percent, the winner of the presidential race will want to revive the job market to claim the mantle of success. Deloitte LLP, one of the big four national accounting and […]
Read MoreA Long Journey to the Voting Booth
For some people, this year’s journey to the voting booth started years ago, in El Salvador or China or Cameroon, when it became clear that they had to leave their country and start over in America. For those people, (whom U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services calls “Americans by choice,”) the journey to the polls has […]
Read MoreNativist Group Releases Hopelessly Flawed Report on Immigrants and Job Creation
By Patrick Oakford, Research Assistant for the Economic Policy Team at the Center for American Progress. Last week the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released a shocking report claiming that most new jobs created under President Obama have gone to immigrants. Aside from the sheer incorrectness of the claim, being founded on flawed methodologies, CIS […]
Read MoreGrind of Getting US Visa Hobbles Building Business
The Boston Globe November 4, 2012 In early 2010, it seemed like all of the stars were aligning for Jay Meattle. He had raised several hundred thousand dollars from investors in Boston for his start-up, Shareaholic. And the company, which enables people to easily share online content they find interesting, had just passed the milestone […]
Read MoreImmigrant Entrepreneurs Open for Business
Des Moines Register November 3, 2012 Betty Garcia embraces the term “immigrant entrepreneur” as a badge of pride. She says her family hasn’t had it as easy as native-born Americans in turning Tortilleria Sonora, whose name hints at both the product and her family’s origins, into a successful business. … “It’s important to recognize backgrounds,” […]
Read MoreWho’s Hiring? An Inside Out View of High Unemployment
Yahoo! Finance November 2, 2012 The latest snapshot of the U.S. labor market, as seen in the October employment report, underscores the current jobs crisis in America. The unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9% from 7.8% in the prior month, and 171,000 payrolls were added to the workforce. While these are solid numbers compared to […]
Read MoreImmigrant Workers Likely to Play Big Role in Post-Sandy Reconstruction
Hurricane Sandy may be gone, but the monumental task of reconstruction remains. In New Jersey and New York in particular, thousands of workers will be needed to rebuild or restore roads, homes, and office buildings damaged or destroyed by the storm. If history is any guide, many of those workers will be immigrants, and many […]
Read MoreWarrantless Arrests and the Timing of Right to Counsel Advisals
Challenging Matter of E-R-M-F- & A-S-M-: Warrantless Arrests and the Timing of Right to Counsel Advisals Washington, D.C.—In Matter of E-R-M-F– & A-S-M-, 25 I. & N. Dec. 580 (BIA 2011), the Board of Immigration Appeals severely undermined the protections provided by 8 C.F.R. § 287.3(c), holding that certain noncitizens arrested without a warrant need […]
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