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REGION: A Third of Inland Small-Business Owners are Immigrants
The Press-Enterprise June 13, 2012 In an Indiana Avenue strip mall just off Highway 91 in Riverside, there’s an Egyptian-run dry cleaner, a Thai-owned postal-services shop, a Mexican-operated Christian bookstore, a Chinese foot-massage business, a Cambodian-owned deli and an Egyptian-run pizza cafe. Only one business in the center has… Read More
Give Us Your Geniuses: Why Seeking Smart Immigrants Is a No-Brainer
The Atlantic June 13, 2012 In 1939, four physicists wrote a letter to the president of the United States, alerting him to the possibility of nuclear weapons. The United States responded with the Manhattan Project. In short order, the new weapon produced by that project had made the United… Read More
H-1B Visas Hit the Cap, Sending Companies to Plan B
Bloomberg Businessweek June 13, 2012 For Silicon Valley, a day of ritual disappointment came on June 12: The U.S. announced that the slots for 2013 H-1B visas had all been filled. On the first business day in April, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services opens the rounds of petitioning for… Read More
Migrants Keep Small-Business Faith
Wall Street Journal June 13, 2012 Immigrants are more inclined to own small businesses than native-born Americans and are increasingly opening shop in areas beyond the major cities in which they have traditionally settled, a trend that is energizing local economies and reshaping communities. Immigrants accounted for 18% of… Read More
Minnesota Business and Labor Unite on Need for Immigration Reform
Twin Cities Daily Planet June 12, 2012 What can bring the SEIU, UFCW Local 1189, UNITE HERE Local 17 together with Ecolab, Cargill, Carlson Companies and the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce? They’re all on the same page, signed on to a joint statement supporting immigration reform now. Also on… Read More
Minnesota Business Leaders say Immigration Leads to Economic Growth
Minnesota Public Radio June 12, 2012 Top executives of three of Minnesota’s biggest employers share their views on immigration reform and the future of the workplace at a panel discussion by the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce on June 8, 2012. Panel members included Jeremy Robbins,Partnership for a New American… Read More
Immigration: Something Has Got To Change
Forbes June 12, 2012 It doesn’t matter where one is born. It’s about winning. And, the competition is for talent. We have written about the need for immigration reform before. We noted that immigration reform has been a pet peeve of former General Electric chief Jack Welch. This last… Read More
VIDEO: Global Lessons: The GPS Roadmap for Making Immigration Work
VIDEO: Global Lessons: The GPS Roadmap for Making Immigration Work CNN June 11, 2012 CNN’s Fareed Zakaria takes an in-depth look at Japan, Europe and Canada’s immigration and explores possible U.S. solutions by Partnership for a New American Economy Co-Chair New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Kansas Secretary… Read More
Citizenship for Sale: Foreign Investors Flock to U.S.
CNNMoney June 11, 2012 Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin drew public ire last month following the revelation that he had renounced his U.S. citizenship, a move widely seen as a tax dodge. But thousands of wealthy foreigners are lining up to replace him, making investments here and putting themselves on… Read More
Immigration Lessons for the U.S. from Around the World
CNN June 10, 2012 Immigrants founded America hundreds of years ago, coming to the promised land in search of freedom and opportunity, in pursuit of the American dream. Today, many Americans see immigrants as a danger to that dream. They worry that immigrants are taking their jobs, using government… Read More
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