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Washington Post: White House claims ‘dreamers’ take jobs away from blacks and Hispanics. Here’s the truth.
It’s a long-running talking point spouted by Trump administration members and the president himself: Undocumented immigrants are taking jobs away from black and Hispanic Americans. Hours after President Trump dismantled an Obama-era program that had granted 800,000 young undocumented immigrants permission to live and work in the United States, White House Press… Read More
Bloomberg View: Trump’s DACA Failure Is Congress’s Opportunity
An executive’s job is to make tough decisions and convince people to follow you. That’s what CEOs are hired to do — and it’s what we elect presidents to do. By punting the legal status of young immigrants to Congress without offering his own proposal, President Trump has failed an important… Read More
CNN Money: Immigrants made American business what it is today
Imagine the United States with no AT&T. No Procter & Gamble. No Bank of America. Also no Apple, Google or eBay. And no upstarts like Tesla, SpaceX or Uber. These companies share one important characteristic besides the thousands of employees who depend on them for a paycheck: They all were founded or co-founded by… Read More
Buzzfeed News: Scrapping DACA Could Cost The Economy As Much As $215 Billion
Reversing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program could cost the economy $215 billion in lost GDP and cost the federal government $60 billion in lost revenue over 10 years, according to the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute. Ike Brannon, a visiting fellow at Cato, wrote in a recent blog post: “It is… Read More
POLITICO: Trump’s DACA move resuscitates immigration reform left for dead
President Donald Trump, who launched his campaign with a forceful attack on immigrants, is now the man responsible for catapulting immigration reform back into contention. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the administration would rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama-era executive action that protected from… Read More
Washington Post: Companies to offer ‘dreamers’ legal protection as Trump scraps DACA
President Trump’s decision Tuesday to scrap an Obama-era program allowing young undocumented immigrants to work in the United States would fall most heavily on the hospitality, retail and construction industries, which together employ nearly half of the 1.3 million immigrants initially eligible for protection, according to an analysis by New… Read More
Kentucky Business and Community Leaders Respond to Trump Administration’s Decision to End the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program, Calls on Congress to Pass Bipartisan DREAM Act to Keep State Economy Strong
Louisville, KY — Today, local leaders responded to President Trump’s announcement to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program, opposing the decision to remove the thousands of individuals that help make Kentucky’s economy stronger. The group called for Congressional solutions that instead harness the power of the foreign-born… Read More
Business Insider: America needs immigrant entrepreneurs
You may not know his name but Andy Bechtolsheim is one of the giants of American technology. Born in post-World War II Germany, he’s always been a natural inventor and entrepreneur. “I spent a lot of time building things,” he’s said of his rural boyhood. Unlike most kids, he was taking… Read More
WBUR: Boston Business Leaders Blast Trump’s Decision To End DACA
Boston-area business leaders say they’re disappointed with the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivalsprogram. The program, known as DACA, granted temporary legal status to about 800,000 people whose parents brought them to the country illegally as children — including about 8,000 here in Massachusetts. Read More
Marketplace: CEOs are coming out in favor of DACA, but can their support influence Congress?
President Donald Trump announced plans Tuesday to roll back the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but with a six month delay that would allow Congress to act. Last week, corporate leaders came to the defense of DACA recipients, also called Dreamers, who get deportation relief and temporary work authorization… Read More
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