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How does immigration benefit rural communities? One study cites Sioux County as example
By F. Amanda Tugade | Des Moines Register | AUG. 22, 2023 | A rural county in Iowa is at the center of a study analyzing the impact of immigrants on communities that have long seen their populations decline. Sioux County — one of the state's largest corn producers and ... -
Can Texas Gov. Abbott set lethal border barriers and still win Latino votes?
By Jean Guerrero | Los Angeles Times | AUG. 21, 2023 | Photo by Eric Gay Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s man-made killing traps on the Rio Grande have taken border enforcement to new levels of barbarity. Since border militarization began in the 1990s, anti-immigrant hardliners could deflect blame for hundreds of ... -
Visa Refusals And Immigration Policies Lead To Fewer Students
By Stuart Anderson | Forbes | AUG. 9, 2023 | Photo by Alex Wong Consular officers denying visas and uncompetitive immigration policies have contributed to a drop in international students attending U.S. universities. Analysts say the decline harms U.S. economic efforts to attract talent and weakens America’s soft power focused ... -
Inside Trump's new plan to limit immigration
By Stef W. Kight | AXIOS | AUG. 21, 2023 | Illustration by Sarah Grillo Former President Trump wants unprecedented restrictions on immigration and the border if he's elected in 2024 — such as screening prospective immigrants for "Marxist" ideologies and a naval blockade to target drug smugglers, Axios has learned. Why it matters: As ... -
The US is facing a labor shortage — immigration is the solution
By Johannes Lang & Zuzana Cepla | The Hill | AUG. 18, 2023 | Photo by Nam Y. Huh For over 35 years, the American political system has been unable to make any significant change to U.S. immigration policy. In June 2023, a bipartisan coalition of representatives introduced the Dignity Act, ... -
‘I have enough ovaries to apply the law.’ The language of gender enters the Mexican ...
By Leila Miller | Los Angeles Times | AUG. 15, 2023 | Photo by Ulises Ruiz MEXICO CITY — The two presidential front-runners grew up exposed to sharply different visions of what a woman in Mexico could aspire to be. In her impoverished home in the state of Hidalgo, Xóchitl Gálvez faced beatings ... -
Migrants take the U.S. to court over its glitchy asylum app
The Biden administration’s glitchy new app is failing asylum seekers. Now, migrant’s rights groups are fighting back. By Erica Hellerstein | CODA | AUG. 9, 2023 It has been more than half a century since U.S. immigration laws were written to enshrine the right to apply for asylum at any ... -
Texas was warned about anti-migrant border buoys months before DOJ stepped in
Barrier installation continued despite U.S.-Mexico river agency’s demands for federal OK and proof that flooding wouldn’t get worse. By Aaron Torres & Todd J. Gillman | The Dallas Morning News | AUG. 8, 2023 | Photo by Eric Gay AUSTIN — Newly uncovered records show Texas officials ignored warnings that ... -
Fact Check-Illinois bill only allows certain non-citizens to become police officers
By Reuters Fact Check | Reuters | AUG. 4, 2023 | Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast Illinois House Bill 3751 only allows non-citizens who are eligible to work in the U.S. and are authorized to possess firearms under federal law to become police officers. Contrary to confusion on social media, ... -
Dreamers Say GOP States Challenging DACA Lack Standing
By Rae Ann Varona | Bloomberg Law360 | AUG. 9, 2023 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients chided Republican-led states for citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that blocked President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, telling a Texas federal court the states overlooked facts that show they actually lack ...