Francis Cissna told The Associated Press that he cut reference to the U.S. being a “nation of immigrants” from Citizenship and Immigration Services’ mission statement because a “bureaucratic” document was the wrong platf ...
Daily Archives: February 26, 2018
Lawsuit: Detained immigrant beaten for role in hunger strike
According to the lawsuit, Jesus Chavez Flores is one of more than 120 immigrant detainees at the facility who began a hunger strike Feb. 7 to protest the conditions of their confinement, including the quality of the food ...
Born in the U.S.A. and still hassled about the immigration status of their parents
Twelfth-grader Quetzali Cruz, a native-born American citizen, applied to the College of William & Mary, ranked 32nd among national universities by U.S. News & World Report. Her transcript verified that she lived in Virgi ...
The world’s most popular superhero is an undocumented immigrant
My journey here was similar to many black immigrants. My family came to the United States in 1992, when I was 10 years old. We were fleeing political persecution in Côte d’Ivoire. We came in with visitors’ visas and appl ...
Why Trump’s effort to curb immigration could hurt US economy
Lost in the immigration debate raging in Washington is the vital economic role played by immigrants who don’t have the education, training or skills that the Trump administration and many Republicans in Congress say shou ...
American Dreamers: Why immigrants start so many businesses
Analysts note that that entrepreneurial drive has become a more critical need as the number of newly formed American businesses has declined — to 414,000 in 2015 from a pre-recession average of 524,000 a year in 2002-200 ...
Widespread panic as Oakland mayor warns sanctuary city of an ICE sweep
On Saturday, Schaaf issued a news release, shared widely by her Twitter followers, warning that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “is preparing to conduct an operation in the Bay Area, including Oakland, starting ...
Koch-backed group launches ad to pressure Congress to protect ‘dreamers
The ad, titled “We Are Patriots,” will run on Facebook, Twitter and Google. It highlights “dreamers” as Americans and patriots and incorporates messages of economic and family values as an appeal to conservative audience ...
I ran USCIS. This is a nation of immigrants, no matter what mission statements say.
I had the privilege of serving as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2014 to 2017. One of my favorite activities was to travel to our offices throughout the United States, meeting staff members an ...
Songwriter’s Daughters Furious As Trump Hijacks Their Father’s Lyrics To Smear Immigrants
The daughters of the man who wrote “The Snake” ― a 1960s soul song that President Donald Trump has appropriated for his own anti-immigrant agenda ― blasted Trump on Sunday for twisting their father’s lyrics into a messag ...
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