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New American Economy Endorses the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019
Today Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Mike Lee (R-UT) and Representatives Ken Buck (R-CO) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) introduced a bicameral and bipartisan bill, the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 (H.R. 1044 and S. 386). New American Economy issued the following statement in support of this legislation:… Read More
Los Angeles Daily News Opinion: Two years later, the continuing cost of the Muslim ban
Several years ago, a client of mine at the Council on American-Islamic Relations came to the United States from Yemen to study dentistry. After graduating from one of the nation’s most prominent programs, he was hired on as a professor and is now training the next generation of U.S. dentists. Read More
Two years after the travel ban, a new study on the contributions made by Middle Eastern and North African Immigrants
Two years ago, on January 27, 2017, the Trump administration enacted a travel ban, which attempted to prevent visitors and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries from coming to the United States. After the ban was challenged in court, the ban was revised and today’s iteration prevents new visitors and… Read More
Xconomy Opinion: America Should Welcome Immigrant Entrepreneurs
When I came to America in 1987, as a wide-eyed University of Texas grad student, I arrived with just a suitcase and a few hundred dollars — money that my mother, back in India, had scraped together by selling her beloved jewelry collection. Three decades later, I’m a… Read More
Trailer for Mahira Patkovich: A Refugee Rises
Meet Mahira Patkovich. Mahira’s family fled Bosnia and resettled in Utica, NY. She’s helping to revitalize downtown as a successful business owner, an MBA candidate and a mother to be. Watch her journey as she comes to call Utica home.
Mahira Patkovich: A Refugee Rises
Meet Mahira Patkovich. Mahira’s family fled Bosnia and resettled in Utica, NY, which experienced a major slump in the 80s and 90s. Today Mahira is helping to revitalize downtown as a successful business owner. She’s also working towards her MBA and expecting her first child to be born in… Read More
Free Times Opinion: Sound Off: It’s Time to Protect South Carolina’s Dreamers
With the government shutdown continuing, pundits are asking whetherPresident Trump might resurrect a deal that came tantalizingly close last year: reopening the government and funding a border wall in exchange for protecting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, the… Read More
Texas Tribune Opinion: Proposed federal rule could penalize legal immigrants, like my parents
When my parents took my brothers and me to visit my grandparents in Mexico last summer, it was meant to be a relaxing family reunion. But I spent the week feeling terrified. I couldn’t stop thinking about what would happen when we crossed the border and returned to Texas. In… Read More
USA Today Opinion: Thanksgiving without the sides: Lack of farm labor could make fruits, vegetables unaffordable
This Thanksgiving, as your family gathers together to eat classic holiday sides like green beans, sweet potatoes, corn and apple pie, imagine what it would be like to not have those dishes on your table. Because unless something is done about the lack of qualified agriculture workers that growers… Read More
Houston Chronicle Opinion: Why my immigrant clients are avoiding doctors
An immigrant client recently told me her newborn received Medicaid, and she asked me if this could harm her chances of getting a green card. I hated the answer I had to give her: Yes, it might. A new Trump administration regulation could penalize immigrants, like my client, from obtaining… Read More
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