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Immigrant 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,” […]

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Who’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 […]

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Immigrant 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 […]

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Warrantless 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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Innovative Immigrants

The New York Times November 1, 2012 Some 70 million immigrants have come to America since the first colonists arrived. The role their labor has played in economic development is widely understood. Much less familiar is the extent to which their remarkable innovations have driven American prosperity. Indeed, while both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney […]

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Immigrant from Nepal Named U.S. Army’s Soldier of the Year

Immigrants have served with honor in the U.S. armed forces since the Revolutionary War. But in what is believed to be a first, the Army has crowned as its top soldier and an enlistee who was not a U.S. citizen at birth.

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DREAM Act Youths Might Be Worth Billions To Texas

San Antonio Express-News October 30, 2012 The hundreds of thousands of illegal U.S. immigrants who would be eligible for the DREAM Act could generate billions of dollars. A study this month by the Center for American Progress and the Partnership for a New American Economy — a bipartisan group of U.S. mayors and business leaders […]

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Could DACA Have Happened Without Public Engagement at USCIS?

Approximately two months after the program opened, nearly 200,000 individuals have submitted requests for grants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) imitative.  It’s still too early to assess the overall success of the program or evaluate the grant rates, but it isn’t too early to take note of the important role that preparation […]

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Tracking the Immigration Agencies’ Actions Amidst Hurricane Sandy

Update (11/2): USCIS has posted this reminder of special services and temporary relief that may be available to individuals affected by Hurricane Sandy, including expedited processing of employment authorization documents and extensions of certain non-immigrant status designations.  In its discretion, USCIS will also take it into account requests from individuals who were unable submit evidence […]

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Supreme Court to Consider Reach of Padilla v. Kentucky

In its landmark decision in Padilla v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court confirmed that criminal defense attorneys have a constitutional obligation to advise their clients if pleading guilty to a particular offense could lead to deportation. On Thursday,* the Justices will consider a follow-up question of critical importance for many immigrants placed in removal proceedings on […]

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