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The Economist June 9, 2012 MOST governments say they want to encourage entrepreneurs. Yet when foreigners with ideas come knocking, they slam doors in their faces. America, surprisingly, is one of the worst offenders. It has no specific visa for foreigners who wish to create new companies. It does offer a visa for investors, but […]
Read MoreLawmakers Attempt to Gut Census by Defunding American Community Survey
How can you make good policy in the absence of good information? That seems to be a question that some Republicans in the House and Senate have not asked themselves. In recent months, these lawmakers have proposed that funding for the Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey (ACS) be cut entirely from the federal budget, […]
Read MoreLegal Action Center Files Suit Against DHS for Failure to Disclose Records on “Voluntary” Returns
Washington D.C. – Yesterday, the Legal Action Center (LAC) at the American Immigration Council, in collaboration with Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, filed suit against Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for unlawfully withholding records concerning voluntary returns of noncitizens from the United States to their countries of […]
Read MoreMaking the Immigration System Work for Our Economy
The White House June 7, 2012 Recently, I had an opportunity to travel to Houston and speak to the business leaders there who are leading the effort to move beyond the heated immigration rhetoric, and to get to a place where we can talk about common sense solutions that are in the country’s best interest. […]
Read MoreTech-Savvy Immig Bill
New York Post June 7, 2012 Mayor Bloomberg got a bipartisan boost from Congress yesterday when lawmakers introduced a bill aimed at keeping foreign-born high-tech students and entrepreneurs in the country. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-SI) is sponsoring the measure that would create a new set of conditional visas for 75,000 immigrant entrepreneurs and 50,000 foreign […]
Read MoreStartup Act 2.0: Could It Be An Immigration Breakthrough?
The Christian Science Monitor June 7, 2012 Forget the border fence or allusions to the American dream – if you want reforms of the nation’s immigration policy, talk about jobs. Talk, in other words, about the Startup 2.0 Act. If a gridlocked Congress is to make headway on modernizing US immigration policy, it may be […]
Read MoreUpdated Figures Highlight Shortfalls of Prosecutorial Discretion Program
As reported in today’s New York Times, the Department of Homeland Security has reviewed nearly 300,000 pending deportation cases over the past seven months in search of low-priority immigrants deserving prosecutorial discretion. While immigrant advocates cheered the policy when it was announced, figures released yesterday suggest that the program is not only falling short of […]
Read MoreOne Tech Flotation’s Going Well!
Daily Mail June 6, 2012 It’s a tentative anchors away for the world’s first floating start-up as more than 250 companies have expressed interest in joining Blueseed, a massive ship anchored in international waters off the coast of California’s Silicon Valley. … But supporters of foreign entrepreneurship say immigrants are responsible for some of the […]
Read MoreFilling Quotas or Setting Priorities? ICE Announcement to Increase Deportations Raises Concerns
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently announced that it would pull 150 agents from desk jobs and add them to Fugitive Operations Teams—teams created to locate and detain “fugitive immigrants” who pose a threat to the nation or the community or who have a violent criminal history—in order to find and deport additional “criminal […]
Read MoreImmigrants Behind More U.S. Startups
National Journal June 5, 2012 Foreign-born people are twice as likely as American natives to want to start a business, and in 2011, immigrants followed through on their dreams to launch 25 percent of U.S. startups, a recent report finds. The power of immigrant-driven innovation and creativity is especially felt in the technology and engineering […]
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