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January 26, 2017

Job Development Expert Says Immigrants ‘Absolutely Critical’ to Economic Vitality

“Immigration is critically important,” says Dr. Ioanna Morfessis, an economic development expert who has helped create 200,000 new jobs as the founder of three high-profile American economic development organizations: the…
January 9, 2017

Western Michigan University’s Director of the College Assistance Migrant Program is Thankful for President Reagan

From the age of 12, Adriana Cardoso-Reyes spent her summers and weekends picking blueberries alongside her parents and siblings. She was one of the almost 100,000 migrant workers…
January 3, 2017

Immigrants Vital to Help Tech Startups Become Multibillion Dollar Companies Here in the U.S.

From the moment he was offered a job at a tech startup in San Mateo, Calif. in 2013, Brazilian-born software engineer Rocir Santiago, worried that U.S. immigration policy would create…
January 1, 2017

A Young Syrian Helps Shine Light on the Immigrant Experience

For Doha Salah and her family, arriving in the United States as refugees was a lesson in blind trust. “We had no one in this country, no friends or family,”…
December 22, 2016

Former Dean of Yale Law School Says to Reject Immigrants is to Reject ‘Exactly the Thing That Makes Americans Unique’

Harold Hongju Koh knows exactly how much the children of immigrants are capable of achieving in a short period of time. “Through educational opportunities, [they] have extraordinary upward mobility in one…

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