In the July 4, 2004 issue of Bender's Immigration Bulletin I published this essay . As we head into the long weekend...and an even longer 2024 election cycle in which immigration will loom large....
In this one-hour webinar, four experts explain what will happen next at the border. Essential viewing! Watch the recording here .
Senate Joint Economic Committee, Dec. 14, 2022 "As the United States continues its recovery from the pandemic recession, immigrant workers are essential to the continued growth of the labor force...
Muzaffar Chishti, Kathleen Bush-Joseph, MPI, May 25, 2023 "U.S. border enforcement finds itself in an uncertain new era now that the pandemic-era Title 42 border expulsions policy has been lifted...
ACLU of Florida, May 22, 2023 "A group of Chinese citizens who live, work, study, and raise families in Florida, as well as a real estate brokerage firm in Florida that primarily serves clients...
"In this podcast, Fi2W executive producer John Rudolph discusses the editorial and political implications of this debate over terminology with Julia Preston, national immigration correspondent for the New York Times, and Monica Novoa, a writer for Colorlines and the organizer of the “Drop the I-Word” campaign, which has been urging news organizations to stop using “illegal immigrant” in their reporting." - Fi2W, Apr. 27, 2012.
[P.S., in a column I wrote for the Texas Tribune, re-posted on HuffPo, I advocate for the use of the term "unauthorized," based on Prof. Keith Cunningham-Parmeter's work on metaphor. To the extent that immigration journalists aspire to be writers rather than scribblers, Cunningham-Parmeter's work is required reading. - Dan Kowalski]
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