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July 12, 2016

International Students Are U.S. Business’ Best Hope For Growth

This week, as anti-immigrant rhetoric continues to permeate the national debate, hundreds of thousands of international students will say goodbye to the United States to return, degrees in hand, to…
July 12, 2016

Immigrant Families Keep a Small Town’s Church — and its Manufacturing Base — Alive

For 20 years, leaders of the predominantly white Trinity United Methodist Church in Dalton, Georgia, had had little luck attracting congregants from the town’s growing immigrant community.

Today, that’s changing.…
July 12, 2016

Assistant Public Defender for Prince George’s County Knows First-hand the Difficulties Many Immigrants Face

After growing up in the United States as the daughter of two undocumented immigrants, Llamilet Gutierrez decided to dedicate her career to protecting the rights of immigrants by…
July 12, 2016

Knoxville NGO Director Sees First-Hand How Immigrants are Benefiting Her Community

Whenever Tiffani Mensch goes to her favorite falafel shop in downtown Knoxville, there is always a line. The popular shop opened recently after its owner, a Syrian refugee named Yassin,…
July 12, 2016

Mexican Tax Lawyer Says a Path to Legal Status Would Allow Her to Pay More Into the U.S. Economy

After Maribel Solache’s neighbor was kidnapped in Mexico City more than a decade ago, Solache and her husband took their young children to the United States on a tourist visa.…

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