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ICE Policy on Parental Rights Addresses Long Overdue Problem in Immigration System 27 Aug 2013 | 02:11 am
For years, leading family and children’s advocates have argued that the bond between parent and child is often a casualty of our broken immigration system. Consequently, they have argued that ensurin...
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The RNC on Immigration Reform 23 Aug 2013 | 10:34 pm
The Republican National Committee took two steps forward last week when they passed a resolution calling on Congress to get immigration reform done by year’s end, but took one step back by suggesting ...
Our Immigration System Must Encourage Foreign Entrepreneurs to Invest in the U.S. 23 Aug 2013 | 03:04 am
Immigrants started 33 percent of U.S. venture-backed companies between 2006 and 2012 that went public, according to a new report from the National Venture Capital Association. The report, however, als...
Immigrant Entrepreneurs Help Build U.S. Economy One Company at a Time 22 Aug 2013 | 12:15 am
Google, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, Facebook, LinkedIn, SanDisk, Altera, Zoosk, Etsy, Tesla Motors. What characteristic does each of these well-known companies share? They each were either founded by an immi...
Newark Police Department Latest to Push Back on ICE Detainer Requests 21 Aug 2013 | 01:08 am
The Newark Police Department is the most recent local law enforcement agency to announce that it will refuse requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain people who have been picked up f...
New Study Shows How Native-Born Workers Benefit from Immigration 20 Aug 2013 | 01:41 am
One of the fears recurrently raised by those who oppose immigration is that inflows of immigrants negatively affect the native-born labor force in general, and less-educated working class individuals ...
Immigration Reform Will Help Address Critical Lack of Medical Doctors 17 Aug 2013 | 12:29 am
The U.S. faces a severe shortage of physicians, particularly in primary care and in rural areas, and as baby boomers retire, the U.S. workforce will need many more health professionals to fill their s...
Positive Gains for DACA Recipients Seen at One-Year Anniversary 16 Aug 2013 | 12:48 am
Today marks the first year anniversary of the implementation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) initiative and there are overwhelmingly positive outcomes to celebrate as well as impor...
Fear Mongering via Mexican Asylum Cases 15 Aug 2013 | 03:14 am
Here’s how an immigration rumor gets started. Take one local Fox news station, mix in a bunch of undisclosed sources complaining about asylum seekers at the Otay border crossing, add in some inflammat...
New Orleans Latest Locality to Shift Costly Immigration Enforcement Burden Back to Feds 14 Aug 2013 | 01:04 am
New Orleans has stopped honoring detainer requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials—the first Southern city to do so—now that the Orleans Parish sheriff’s office will no longer...
