Valerie Lacarte, Ph.D., Aug. 2024 "The charge that immigrants are taking jobs from U.S.-born Black workers has made its way from conspiracy circles to the broader public conversation this election season. Several economists have refuted this : they say that...
LAW-ABIDING IMMIGRANTS: THE INCARCERATION GAP BETWEEN IMMIGRANTS AND THE US-BORN, 1870–2020 "We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants...
Alex Daniels, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Aug. 8, 2024 "The Path2Papers , a nonprofit project at Cornell University Law School, in April received $1.5 million from the Crankstart Foundation to offer free consultations to DACA recipients in the San Francisco...
Beau Dure, The Guardian, Aug. 5, 2024 "A judo world championship bronze medalist from Cuba who got back into the sport after moving to America. The son of a pioneer in the new Olympic sport of breaking who came to the US after an arduous journey through...
Muzaffar Chishti and Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, MPI, Aug. 1, 2024 "This article reviews how interior cities have adapted to the rise in migrant arrivals and examines the challenges they continue to face."
UCI School of Social Sciences, May 7, 2024 "In their newly released edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait (University of California Press), UCI Distinguished Professor of sociology Rubén G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes of both Princeton University...
Biden proclaims June 2024 as National Immigrant Heritage Month
Prof. Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, May 17, 2024 "New York has over 470,000 open jobs across all sectors. The health care industry is still reeling from the pandemic, when 20% of all health care workers left the field. The number of jobs available in that field...
Jeanne Batalova, Julia Gelatt and Michael Fix, MPI, April 2024 "The U.S. economy has changed dramatically in recent decades, from one that was heavily industrial to one that is mostly service and knowledge based. In the process, demand has grown for workers...
Just Futures Law , Mar. 22, 2024 email: "Yesterday, in an important victory for the immigrant community, a federal court greenlighted a lawsuit brought by Just Futures Law and Edelson PC against Western Union for its alleged involvement in a dragnet surveillance...
Chris Walker, Truthout, Mar. 4, 2024 "As Republicans — including likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump — continue to push the racist belief that immigrants are bringing crime to the United States, a new analysis has shown that such claims...
Bill Lueders, Nov. 7, 2023 "AQUILINO GONELL HELD HIS TONGUE as long as he could. He had been among the more than 400 Capitol Police officers on duty on January 6, 2021, as a mob instigated by President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol. He saw his fellow...
Janelle Retka, Samantha McCabe, Jiahui Huang and María Inés Zamudio, The Center for Public Integrity, Sept. 28, 2023 "As climate change accelerates natural catastrophes, the disaster-restoration industry has capitalized on low-wage immigrant...
Gustavo Arellano, Sept. 17, 2023 "When my editor first told me that a nationwide L.A. Times/KFF poll found that immigrants are more optimistic about life in the United States than native-born Americans, my initial response was: story of my life."
AIC, Aug. 29, 2023 "In an annual review of the most successful companies in the United States, the American Immigration Council unveiled today a report that sheds light on the contributions of immigrant entrepreneurs and their children to the U.S. economy...