Latinos are used to people assuming all Latinos are immigrants; assuming all immigrants are unauthorized immigrants; and assuming all unauthorized immigrants are criminals.
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This is a school of immigrants, in a city of immigrants, in a country of immigrants.
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This was a hospital founded by immigrants, for immigrants, and today it is staffed by many immigrants.
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They found that the baseline favorability for "immigrants" in general was generally closer to how Americans felt about "illegal immigrants" than legal immigrants — as if people thought of immigrants as illegal by default, and only remembered about legal immigrants when prompted.
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Furthermore, those Americans tend to conflate "illegal immigrants" with "immigrants" and "immigrants" with "Latinos" — leading them to overstate the number of unauthorized immigrants in the country, and imagine more pouring in.
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Those cities cover millions of immigrants: both unauthorized immigrants and legal immigrants who are at risk of losing their status.
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For many of those immigrants, though — particularly immigrants from Africa and the black Caribbean (and, to a lesser extent, newer immigrants from Latin America as well) — immigrants aren't arriving into a vacuum.
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Many of us have eaten food harvested by undocumented immigrants, eaten in restaurants where food was prepared by undocumented immigrants, stayed in hotel rooms cleaned by undocumented immigrants, enjoyed buildings constructed by undocumented immigrants, and now receive Medicare, which is partly subsidized by undocumented immigrants.
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Socially, unauthorized immigrants live alongside legal immigrants and US citizens.
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"I have nothing against immigrants, the real immigrants," he said.
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You can resist the forces that are against immigrants, because it is immigrants who built America and immigrants who most definitely built tech.
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We are a country that was built by immigrants, for immigrants.
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Half of Australians are either immigrants themselves or children of immigrants.
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" Fake News Media had me calling Immigrants, or Illegal Immigrants, "Animals.
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"We are a nation of immigrants and immigrants' children," it said.
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We're safe not in spite of immigrants but because of immigrants.
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Locals despise immigrants; legal immigrants despise illegal ones; illegal immigrants in a position of relative strength despise those who are weaker and more vulnerable.
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The president has called Mexican immigrants rapists and compared immigrants to snakes.
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New immigrants tend to affect only the pay of recently arrived immigrants.
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There are 84 million Americans who are immigrants or children of immigrants.
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"We are immigrants, and we will always be immigrants," Mr. Muñoz said.
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"Immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, pay billions of dollars in taxes," he added.
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Finally, look at our history: We are a nation built by immigrants, fueled by cities and towns developed by immigrants, with vital services staffed by immigrants.
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The most obvious truth about us is that we really are -- despite all cries to the contrary -- a nation of immigrants, by immigrants, and for immigrants.
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ICE's primary responsibilities are arresting immigrants within the US, detaining immigrants pending deportation hearings, prosecuting immigrants in those hearings, and deporting those who are ordered deported.
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In the past, Cholera was blamed on Irish immigrants, the plague was blamed on Chinese immigrants, and waves of tuberculosis have been blamed on Mexican immigrants.
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Undocumented immigrants from China Trump claimed that "many" undocumented immigrants are from China.
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If immigrants are driving down wages, it is mostly those of other immigrants.
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There are many immigrants or children of immigrants who are hardliners on immigration.
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They deal with immigrants who haven't arrived yet, or with "criminal" unauthorized immigrants.
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See more efforts to attract immigrants, young immigrants, to bring more people in.
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They are also more likely to be men, immigrants, or children of immigrants.
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In the face of attacks on Muslim immigrants, all immigrants must stand together.
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In 29, U.S. immigrants accounted for about 216 percent of the world's immigrants.
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It is a nation of immigrants, albeit immigrants returning to their ancestral homeland.
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DACA-eligible immigrants tend to be more highly skilled than other unauthorized immigrants.
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The US economy needs low-skilled immigrants much more than high-skilled immigrants.
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The truth at Harvard and other elite private colleges is that the supposed zero-sum game of admissions slots isn't really between Asian immigrants and the descendants of enslaved people, but rather between Asian immigrants, Latino immigrants and black immigrants.
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The truth at Harvard and other elite private colleges is that the supposed zero-sum game of admissions slots isn't really between Asian immigrants and the descendants of enslaved people, but rather between Asian immigrants, Latino immigrants and black immigrants.
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Immigrants, sons of immigrants and grandsons of immigrants bonded together with scions of families that have been French for generations, all for the rouge, blanc et bleu.
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When the truth is, that the immigrants, legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, the chamber maid, the person who&aposs waiting on you, the person who&aposs calling you.
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Traditionally, the attractiveness of the U.S. to immigrants has been an asset: nearly half of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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Throughout history, Asian immigrants, Mexican immigrants, Muslim immigrants and their children, to name a few, have had unspoken cultural caveats applied to their ability to be Americans.
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So now illegal immigrants are sponsoring illegal immigrants in the United States of America.
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He describes this as yesterday's immigrants helping to tell the stories of today's immigrants.
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About 44% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or children of immigrants.
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DHS ended temporary protected status (TPS) for 50,000 Honduran immigrants and 9,000 Nepalese immigrants.
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Your country is scapegoating immigrants for something that immigrants have nothing to do with.
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Like real world immigrants, the alien immigrants of MIB aren't always paragons of virtue.
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We'd see more efforts to attract immigrants—young immigrants—to bring more people in.
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A majority of Muslims in the United States are immigrants or children of immigrants.
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However, they do dislike him for his stance on immigrants and especially Muslim immigrants.
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Among those immigrants, 2202 million are unauthorized or illegal (2628 percent of U.S. immigrants).
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Except for Native Americans, all of us are either immigrants or descended from immigrants.
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" He added: "Apparently there was a two-tier system - documented immigrants and undocumented immigrants.
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The SSA's estimates include authorized immigrants, unauthorized immigrants, and foreign workers on temporary visas.
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In particular, they're coming out of the allotments for economic immigrants — particularly skilled immigrants.
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The story of the sons and daughters of Polish immigrants, of Puerto Rican immigrants.
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Immigrants without connections to their home culture — fully "assimilated" immigrants — are relatively worse off.
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Many are immigrants or American-born children of immigrants speaking another language at home.
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Along with Muslims, immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants, have carried the brunt of this hate.
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A majority of people in the country are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants.
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Half of all immigrants, undocumented immigrants in our country actually pay federal income tax.
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For black immigrants or children of immigrants, this exclusionary messaging is even more obvious.
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Democracy and rule of law also mean that if majority of people want less immigrants they get less immigrants, and illegal immigrants can be deported after due process.
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Seventy-five percent of the immigrants coming into ICE custody come from the border, though immigrants might also interact with inmates at jails, some of which also hold immigrants.
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And for all of you American redditors who are immigrants, children of immigrants, or children's children of immigrants, we invite you to share your family's story in the comments.
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These included alerting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials when undocumented immigrants are being released from prison, providing access to interview immigrants, and barring the withholding of immigrants' citizenship status.
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Their choices are to deport current immigrants who are deemed threatening (Deport), enact security measures to keep new immigrants out (Wall), or strictly limit new immigrants and refugees (Limits).
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Forty percent of the Fortune 500 were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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He wants to deport immigrants and I come from a long line of Latin immigrants.
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We call for celebrating the immigrants — we're all immigrants on this bus in this country.
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Americans routinely overestimate how many Latinos are immigrants, and particularly how many are unauthorized immigrants.
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Immigrants have been hunkering down News of the raids has left many undocumented immigrants frightened.
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Here let us be clear: we are not talking about illegal immigrants but all immigrants!
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At my consulting firm, all of my employees are either immigrants or children of immigrants.
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Our country has gained and will continue to gain from immigrants and children of immigrants.
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I did count almost half of them were immigrants or are children of immigrants, actually.
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"What Trump has done to vilify immigrants, to physically punish immigrants, is wrong," she said.
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By 2036, almost half of Canadians are expected to be immigrants or children of immigrants.
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But they want to fund them for illegal immigrants, so the illegal immigrants come in.
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Cannon advocated a guest worker program for immigrants and pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
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Most of the top Canadian tennis players, including Andreescu, are immigrants or children of immigrants.
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Today, certain immigrants are good immigrants, depending on their faith, the color of their skin.
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What's more, immigrants from outside Europe had high rates of entrepreneurship or were self-employed in 2014: 19.1 percent of immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa were entrepreneurs, while 11.1 percent of Hispanic immigrants and 85033 percent of Asian immigrants were self employed.
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Most Americans assume there's a clear-cut line between legal immigrants and unauthorized immigrants; between noncitizens and citizens; between immigrants who have been naturalized and citizens who were born here.
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Salvadoran immigrants covered by TPS will lose their protected status in September 2019, those from Haiti in July 2019, Nicaraguan immigrants in January 2019 and Sudanese immigrants in November 2019.
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Would the stigmatization of American immigrants have continued to make the immigrants feel more American than Mexican, just as immigration experts worry stigma against Latino immigrants impedes their integration today?
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Where would our country be without these immigrants and children of immigrants (among so many others)?
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But their emphasis on "non-Western immigrants" and insistence on teaching immigrants Christian traditions suggests otherwise.
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Forty percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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With DACA's death, it no longer matters who the good immigrants or bad immigrants are anymore.
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It doesn't matter whether those victims or witnesses are U.S. citizens, lawful immigrants, or undocumented immigrants.
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Immigrants or the children of immigrants have started more than 85033 percent of Fortune 500 companies.
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Not just illegal immigrants but immigrants in general, Bannon seemed to believe, were sapping America's Americanness.
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Immigrants -- true immigrants, not exchange students -- seek new lives because their old ones have been destroyed.
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"That's playing into what the Republicans want, to pit some immigrants against some immigrants," Booker said.
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My parents were immigrants, and a quick comprehension of cultural norms is the genius of immigrants.
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You know, half of all immigrants — undocumented immigrants in our country — actually pay federal income tax.
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This uniquely affects immigrants and descendants of immigrants, as different masculinity ideals are present in Asia.
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"We have a president that has belittled the contributions of immigrants, particularly Mexican immigrants," he said.
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He promised to crack down on immigrants and yet under him immigrants seeking asylum have surged.
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"Asian immigrants were the first immigrants to the US that couldn't be considered white," Lee says.
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His attack on immigrants has created a growing consciousness that we are a country of immigrants.
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I am so horrified and disgusted by the prejudice of former immigrants to our newer immigrants.
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This creates a "chain" of immigrants who can then sponsor more immigrants in the same manner.
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"Microsoft is a company of immigrants in a nation of immigrants," part of Smith's statement read.
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Well, the ban on Chinese immigrants has been lifted, and a ban on Muslim immigrants threatened.
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Trump has made no secret of his hostility toward immigrants, in particular undocumented immigrants and refugees.
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In fact, more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants, and immigrants have founded one quarter of high-tech startups across America.
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Their judgment of whether immigrants should be allowed to stay in the US is based less on those immigrants' legal status than on other factors like their education, fluency in English, and ethnicity; they're less concerned about immigrants taking jobs than about immigrants disrespecting the flag.
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Complementary to that analysis, Americans' views about immigration differ substantially according to where the immigrants are from; immigrants from Europe and Asia are viewed much more positively than immigrants from Africa and Latin America, and immigrants from the Middle East are viewed least positively of all.
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"[Officials] proudly say, 'We're for immigrants, we support immigrants,' but just saying they're supporting immigrants is not enough," said Erick Reyna, a 26-year-old co-manager of the 415 Unidos campaign.
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African Americans are slightly more favorable (34 percent versus 29 percent) about immigrants from Europe than immigrants from Latin America, but whites are drastically more enthusiastic (43 versus 25) about European immigrants.
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It was love for my community, love for specifically immigrants in this country, and specifically undocumented immigrants.
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These produce videos that included people chasing immigrants on the streets, or people they thought were immigrants.
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In fact, immigrants are less likely to commit a crime than native citizens are — including undocumented immigrants.
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Unauthorized immigrants do not make up the majority share of immigrants in any state, according to Pew.
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This does not include "harboring" illegal immigrants, or employing ten or more illegal immigrants in one year.
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Not only is it offensive to Latinos, it is offensive to immigrants and the children of immigrants.
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That number rose to a record 40.7 million immigrants in 2012, among them 11.7 million unauthorized immigrants.
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The AfD capitalized on growing anxiety that the immigrants — especially Muslim immigrants — would fundamentally change German society.
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The specialized schools are far from bastions of privilege, dominated by immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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Only 236 percent of detained immigrants have a lawyer, compared with 2900 percent of non-detained immigrants.
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In 1882, Congress excluded Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. Later it prohibited almost all Japanese immigrants.
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Trump's hostilities toward illegal immigrants could scare other immigrants away from working in the U.S., businesses reason.
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Mexican immigrants made up the largest share of undocumented immigrants to the United States during this time.
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In November, it hit 59,0003 Haitian immigrants and 2,500 Nicaraguan immigrants with the same 18-month deadline.
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That's why stories about immigrants committing crimes, stories about neighbors losing jobs to immigrants, and assertions that immigrants aren't loyal to their adopted countries, are all extremely powerful (regardless if they are true).
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That's why stories about immigrants committing crimes, stories about neighbors losing jobs to immigrants, and assertions that immigrants aren't loyal to their adopted countries, are all extremely powerful (regardless of whether they're true).
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Even Latino immigrants, who lag behind other immigrants (who tend to be more educated) in how long it takes them to speak English, perform much better than the European immigrants of the 1880s.
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That's why stories about immigrants committing crimes, stories about neighbors losing jobs to immigrants, and assertions that immigrants aren't loyal to their adopted countries are all extremely powerful (regardless of whether they're true).
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What are you thinking when you're going ahead and actually asking for more immigrants, illegal immigrants, welcoming them in, even inducing and seducing immigrants with gift baskets of teddy bears and soccer balls?
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The bills foundered over how to deal with undocumented immigrants, but various programs intended to bring in talented and diverse immigrants and to let legal immigrants bring in family members continued largely unchallenged.
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Firms founded exclusively by immigrants have an initial size of just below five employees, whereas firms with a mixed founder team (immigrants and non-immigrants) have an average initial size of 17 workers.
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" (India gained its independence from Britain in 1947) On illegal Bangladeshi immigrants: "The illegal immigrants are like termites.
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Protesters in Wisconsin had a "Day Without Immigrants" rally to stress the importance of immigrants to the community.
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More than half of the top American tech companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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In southern California, public transport is heavily used by poor immigrants, particularly immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
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The Small Business Administration reported that immigrants were 30% more likely than non immigrants to start a business.
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Presidents have the power to bar access to the U.S. to specific immigrants or entire classes of immigrants.
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The administration adopted a new policy of arresting immigrants at courthouses, including immigrants there to file restraining orders.
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People fear immigrants because they're non-white, certainly, and also because they think immigrants will take their jobs.
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Native-born Americans commit crimes at a far higher rate than immigrants and even higher than undocumented immigrants.
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He has cracked down not just on undocumented immigrants, but even legal immigrants seeking to enter the country.
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It would have allowed undocumented immigrants, green-card holders and immigrants with student visas vote in municipal elections.
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Most immigrants, however, did show up to their court dates; 60,000 immigrants showed up only to get deported.
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But what it values in immigrants (and the types of immigrants it chooses) has stayed largely the same.
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I'd change the mix of immigration, to let in fewer low-skills immigrants and more high-skills immigrants.
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They even disparage legal immigration, ignoring the fact that nearly all Americans are immigrants or descendants of immigrants.
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Forty percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded or co-founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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Then consider what it may look like when Mr. Trump pursues policies regarding Muslim immigrants and undocumented immigrants.
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In addition, Asian immigrants make up 85033 percent of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
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Some were immigrants themselves, or the children of immigrants, and they knew exactly what he was talking about.
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"This is an administration that wants the American public to fear immigrants and to hate immigrants," said Rep.
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The stress pregnant immigrants face in America Doctors are seeing increased stress in pregnant patients who are immigrants.
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He is also involved in plans to limit citizenship for documented immigrants and strip immigrants of their citizenship.
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Identifying subjects simply as Russian immigrants or Lithuanian immigrants is misleading, or only half the story, they say.
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People worry that immigrants will bring crime, even though stats show immigrants are no more dangerous than natives.
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Forty percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are either immigrants themselves or children of immigrants. Exactly.
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ICE had to change its enforcement operations from taking custody of immigrants at police stations to looking for undocumented immigrants in the community, which resulted in arresting approximately 28500,6900 noncriminal immigrants in fiscal 2628.
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But for the most part, this order doesn't crack down on unauthorized immigrants to protect legal immigrants; it cracks down on immigrants, and their US citizen children, for the sake of the native-born.
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But for the most part, this order doesn't crack down on unauthorized immigrants to protect legal immigrants; it cracks down on immigrants, and their US citizen children, for the sake of native-born citizens.
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Deporting undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes Trump did not repeat his campaign promise to deport all undocumented immigrants, pledging to focus first on deporting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in the United States.
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Last week's nationwide "Day Without Immigrants" protests were aimed at showcasing the impact immigrants have on the U.S. economy.
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" New immigrants: Immigrants applying for U.S. visas would face tougher tests determining whether they are considered a "public charge.
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Of course, it's impossible to measure how much of that came from US citizens, legal immigrants, or unauthorized immigrants.
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" 10 takeaways from the DNC "He talks about excluding people, disrespecting judges, the entire judicial system, immigrants, Muslim immigrants.
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Has Trump ever attacked Irish, Italian or Jewish immigrants for being rapists and criminals as he attacked Mexican immigrants?
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Donald Trump has targeted Muslim immigrants like Khan; Mexican immigrants like Becerra and Zarate; even "the Chinese," like Chai.
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He noted that the majority of the show's writers and directors are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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Among the countries with the most immigrants in the US, the biggest decrease in undocumented immigrants was from Mexico.
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Organizations that serve immigrants, in particular, are subject to changing laws which have targeted immigrants over the last decade.
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Among Republicans, while 25 percent said immigrants were changing their communities, 23 percent said immigrants were changing the society.
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According to the Kauffman Foundation, immigrants are more than twice as likely as non-immigrants to start a business.
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In fact, according to Pew, three-quarters of Muslims currently in the US are immigrants or children of immigrants.
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That would move voting power from blue urban centers with many immigrants to red rural areas with few immigrants.
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Congress should pass the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, which would improve conditions for detained immigrants, including transgender ones.
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Immigrants have made America great, and the children of immigrants, legal or illegal, have contributed mightily to our greatness.
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"We expect immigrants to use the internet as it is but that internet doesn't work for immigrants," he said.
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It's a question that — for many immigrants and children of immigrants (including this writer) — is both unsettling and urgent.
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Advocates for immigrants worry the risk will be too great for immigrants on the fence about reporting their crimes.
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The bill would reduce the amount of legal immigrants in the U.S, and give priority to English speaking immigrants.
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" Negative impacts on wages are mostly found for prior immigrants "who are often the closest substitutes for new immigrants.
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Immigrants' rights groups are pleading with Mr. Obama to shield 63,000 legal immigrants with minor criminal records from deportation.
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Sessions is using the assimilation of hypothetical future immigrants to deny "assimilation" to the immigrants who are here now.
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But 70 percent of them experience violence in the US at the hands of immigrants and non-immigrants alike.
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They are using federal requests to find out about immigrants and data that the tech company have on immigrants.
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He was usually happy to talk generally about how dangerous immigrants — or, at his most specific, unauthorized immigrants — were.
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A longstanding concern with immigrants generally, and undocumented immigrants in particular, is that they depress wages for all Americans.
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Those results were surprising in light of prior studies about immigrants' mobility and health care coverage: Immigrants tend to move around within the US more than their US-born counterparts, immigrants may choose to settle in areas with better public benefits, and substantially fewer immigrants have health insurance compared to US citizens.
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Our reporters catalogued all the ways Trump has attacked immigrants while he's been president — from using racist language that portrays immigrants as "violent" pests from "shithole" countries to withholding money from cities that protected undocumented immigrants.
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Now, of course, it's true that even though immigrants commit violent crimes at a low rate and places with more immigrants have lower crime rates, neither immigrants nor immigrant-heavy cities have a zero crime rate.
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The program brings in about 50,000 immigrants per year to the U.S. On the numbers alone, that's trading 50,000 immigrants from one program for an additional one million plus immigrants instantly approved by the Trump administration.
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"Undocumented immigrants and even lawful immigrants are afraid to report crime," said Chief Acevedo, who has spoken publicly about the need for local leaders to care for immigrants under increased pressure from state and federal authorities.
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"Indeed, the United States has long benefited from the entrepreneurship and innovation of immigrants— including undocumented immigrants," the brief reads.
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"Indeed, the United States has long benefited from the entrepreneurship and innovation of immigrants— including undocumented immigrants," the brief reads.
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Among detained immigrants, those with representation were twice as likely as unrepresented immigrants to win their case, 49% versus 23%.
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Businesses across the United States are preparing to close as immigrants plan to partake in the "Day Without Immigrants" protests.
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This is for all the immigrants" #Oscars Second award - best makeup and hair styling - dedicated "to all of the immigrants.
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Chase, who now volunteers for organizations that provide legal assistance to immigrants, is also concerned about due process for immigrants.
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And what about people who are neither Mexican nor immigrants and who feel indignation at the treatment of Mexican immigrants?
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Roughly 86,85033 immigrants from the country have TPS, according to AP. Nepali immigrants were granted TPS after a 2015 earthquake.
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For some Korean immigrants in New Jersey and some Chinese immigrants in Flushing, it meant financial devastation and frayed relationships.
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Many rejected the explicit tradeoff in the White House proposal between legalizing current unauthorized immigrants and barring future legal immigrants.
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And the practice was passed on later in the 1800s to other generations of immigrants, to Jewish immigrants, for instance.
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How could tweets that described immigrants with obscenities, for example, contribute to violence and hatred toward immigrants in real life?
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Nearly 400 targeted immigrants or people perceived to be immigrants; 43 percent of those involved anti-Latino hate or harassment.
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Immigrants' rights advocates say the new order could easily apply to a majority of unauthorized immigrants in the United States.
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Claim: Illegal immigrants killed 10,150 Americans in 2018 There is no nationwide data on crimes committed specifically by "illegal immigrants".
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And while all the characters are immigrants or children of immigrants, it is not principally concerned with the immigrant experience.
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The move will mainly affect legal immigrants and their families, since undocumented immigrants are not eligible for most federal benefits.
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He said the majority of the writers and directors of the projects are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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His central idea is that the fear of immigrants is much more harmful to the United States than immigrants themselves.
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Evidence has shown that Americans are more sympathetic to immigrants from Europe than they are to immigrants from other continents.
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Supporters of policies that offer leniency to undocumented immigrants who are otherwise upstanding members of society say that data shows that undocumented immigrants and immigrants in general commit crimes at a lower rate than the general population.
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Arrests of some immigrants in other parts of the country outside a church-run hypothermia shelter, a school and in homes where warrants for other immigrants were being served have made many immigrants skeptical of ICE's reassurances.
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He claims the Mexican government is "sending" immigrants to America, asserts that most of those immigrants are rapists and murderers, and promises Mexico will pay for his new version of the Berlin Wall to keep immigrants out.
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"African immigrants in general and Nigerian immigrants in particular are among the most educated and successful immigrants in the United States," Frank Sharry, the executive director of the immigration advocacy group America's Voice, said in a statement.
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In the 2015 fiscal year, one-third of diversity immigrants were employed in professional or managerial occupations (compared with 10 percent of all immigrants) and just 1 percent were unemployed (compared with 8 percent of all immigrants).
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In an analysis of American Community Survey information, Nowrasteh found that undocumented immigrants are about half as likely to be incarcerated than the general population, and documented immigrants about half as likely to be incarcerated as undocumented immigrants.
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Tapping into money immigrants send home Mexican immigrants sent nearly $27 billion home in 2016, according to the country's central bank.
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The administration has already left a huge mark on the lives of nonwhites in America — particularly immigrants, and particularly unauthorized immigrants.
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And though immigrants' children commit crimes at higher rates than immigrants themselves, they still offend less frequently than longer-settled cohorts.
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"We are the immigrants, the mighty, mighty immigrants," Misa chanted into a mic to rally protestors in the 2495-degree weather.
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There are more than 20163 million immigrants in the U.S. and Canada, and more than 240 million immigrants around the world.
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It explains why many Americans who don't necessarily support wide-scale legalization of unauthorized immigrants think of DREAMers as "good" immigrants.
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Freedom for Immigrants (formerly Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement) is currently too small to be rated by Charity Navigator.
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Richwine has long espoused a view that non-Europeans have lower IQs than European immigrants, making the latter more desirable immigrants.
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Undocumented immigrants and immigrants with legal status pay billions of dollars each year into the Social Security system through payroll taxes.
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There is absolutely no reason to treat this generation of immigrants so much worse than prior generations of majority-European immigrants.
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Patel's image is the latest contribution to the new satirical website Scary Immigrants, which documents the "boringly normal" lives of immigrants.
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"The quality of immigrants, the motivation of immigrants, this is what has contributed to the greatness of the country," Buffett said.
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Hating immigrants and spreading lies that they are dangerous is not on a level playing field with thinking immigrants are humans.
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Hating immigrants and spreading lies that they are dangerous is not on a level playing field with thinking immigrants are humans.
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Unsurprisingly, the most popular type of immigrants by far, according to polls there, are economic immigrants already possessing a university education.
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Interestingly, while Jewish immigrants were met with distaste by British citizens, African immigrants did not face the same type of disgust.
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Immigrants or children of immigrants make up nearly 60 percent of the city's population, and the ripple effect could be powerful.
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Calling for enforcement that punishes companies that hire undocumented immigrants, rather than the immigrants themselves, is a cruel sleight of hand.
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People who believe that immigrants harm the economy are also more optimistic now than people who think immigrants benefit the economy.
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It's true a wall may keep some undocumented immigrants out, which might decrease the number of these immigrants in the workforce.
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But she thinks the "Day Without Immigrants" protest was well crafted, and the same for the bodega strike by Yemeni immigrants.
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According to the Cato Institute, a substantial portion of immigrants stuck in the backlog are skilled immigrants from China and India.
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Immigrants often use the Rio Grande, the dangerous and polluted waterway that has claimed the lives of immigrants attempting to cross.
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" Martin Luther King III "These are evil days when they deny today's immigrants of color the same rights of white immigrants.
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In it, Trump is expected to propose screening immigrants with an ideological questionnaire to determine whether potential immigrants support American values.
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On Tuesday night he excoriated wealthy Americans who benefit from undocumented immigrants even as those immigrants (supposedly) diminish less wealthy Americans.
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What really worries me is this whole portrayal of immigrants in this country, about immigrants taking jobs and stuff like that.
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Home Depot, Apple, AT&T, Instagram, Boeing - all of these companies were started by immigrants or by the children of immigrants.
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But here's the problem with evaluating immigrants based on assimilability: When people actually meet immigrants who have integrated into their communities, they're likely to see them as "good immigrants" who should be allowed to come to and stay in the US. Trump voters have been shocked when long-resident unauthorized immigrants in their communities have been arrested and deported.
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It was a bundle of provisions with a single goal: to increase penalties on immigrants who had violated US law in some way (whether they were unauthorized immigrants who'd violated immigration law or legal immigrants who'd committed other crimes).
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It would be particularly embarrassing for us to fall for this — we are a nation of immigrants, and we know that immigrants built this country (and Trump, of course, is the grandson of immigrants and married to an immigrant).
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Overnight, reports from immigrants around the world began flowing in, according to Mana Yegani, a Houston-based lawyer who represents Iranian immigrants.
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Number of Mexican immigrants declining There are about 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States, according to the Pew Research Center.
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There's Medicare for all, free college for all, food stamps for immigrants, food stamps for illegal immigrants, universal child care and more.
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Instead, the Library of Congress will use the terms "non-citizen" and "unauthorized immigrants" in subject headings to refer to undocumented immigrants.
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The strikes call on Latinos and immigrants to stay home from work in protest of President Trump's increasingly polarizing stance on immigrants.
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Hetherington and Weiler's 2009 research found a tremendous difference between authoritarian voters' and non-authoritarian voters' views on immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants.
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It's the story of millions of immigrants who have come before me, of the immigrants her father has suggested we round up.
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Immigrants are what have always made this country great, and so many of us descend from immigrants, whether generations ago or recently.
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"We asked the offices of Florida's four congressional representatives who are immigrants or the children of immigrants" for comment, Kirby Wilson wrote.
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Another caller explained, "I'm thankful my grandparents aren't alive, being Jewish immigrants," to have to witness Trump's attacks on immigrants and Muslims.
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The number of immigrants in the country, the total number of immigrants, shrank in 50 years, and the overall American population doubled.
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Immigrants or the children of immigrants have founded more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies, employing more than 85033 million people.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement, the federal agency that oversees refugees and undocumented immigrants, had blocked the immigrants from having the procedures.
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And yet, immigrants and the children of immigrants, from the Caribbean and beyond, played a role at every stage of the tragedy.
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So far, most immigrants protected by the effort have not been targeted by stepped-up efforts to find and deport undocumented immigrants.
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I love this country and this city in part because of immigrants and the diversity of cultures immigrants bring to this country.
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From Apple to Google to AT&T, some of the world's most valuable businesses were started by immigrants or children of immigrants.
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UK and Caribbean immigrants British Prime Minister Theresa May apologized for the UK's treatment of some Caribbean immigrants, saying they're still welcome.
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" Trump has made a number of controversial comments about immigrants, including tweeting in June that immigrants were coming to "infest our country.
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This figure jumps to an average of $2202,2628 for immigrants with a bachelor's degree and $28500,6900 for immigrants with an advanced degree.
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Immigrants and children of immigrants founded nearly half of the U.S.'s Fortune 2628 companies, according to a New American Economy study.
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I love this country and this city, in part because of immigrants and the diversity of cultures immigrants bring to this country.
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There have been calls from multiple activist groups urging the release of immigrants from detention centers for the sake of immigrants' health.
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Both undocumented immigrants and immigrants with legal status pay billions of dollars each year into the Social Security system through payroll taxes.
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We had a huge influx of immigrants from parts of the world where, at the time, those immigrants were not considered white.
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The exhibition brings together the work of five artists and five poets who are all immigrants or the direct descendants of immigrants.
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He falsely said that Democrats want to give health care benefits to undocumented immigrants and are openly encouraging undocumented immigrants to vote.
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The rule, which critics have called a "wealth test" for immigrants, penalizes legal immigrants for using public assistance programs such as Medicaid.
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It is now a place where immigrants and children of immigrants flock to, searching for good schools and somewhat more affordable housing.
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Dreamers are undocumented immigrants who are brought to the United States as children; they are not American-born children of undocumented immigrants.
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Trump's election win has stirred fears among many immigrants and activists that mass deportation of undocumented immigrants may not be far away.
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But many others — particularly younger Korean immigrants and the children of immigrants — are more focused on the fight against his domestic agenda.
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For starters, despite a presidential policy sourced from the sewers of white supremacy, a nation of immigrants has not turned against immigrants.
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Last year's class included several immigrants, refugees and children of immigrants representing Saudi Arabian, Iranian, Ethiopian, Indian and Mexican heritages, among others.
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Yang again touted his immigrant roots and said almost half of Fortune 500 companies were started by immigrants or children of immigrants.
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A report by the Migration Policy Institute found that DACA-eligible immigrants tend to be more highly skilled than ineligible unauthorized immigrants.
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He's interested in expanding H1-B visas for skilled immigrants but railed against amnesty for immigrants who arrived in the US illegally.
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Yeah, which is why it's dangerous to say that there are the good kind of immigrants and the bad kind of immigrants.
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They can tell you a lot about the immigrants who were coming at the time, the communities they were entering, how the United States felt about those immigrants, and how those immigrants adapted to the new country they came to.
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Under a reasonable scenario in which those costs are not attributed to immigrants, immigrants are a fiscal boon overall, but there are negative effects evident at the state level when the costs of educating the children of immigrants are included.
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Only the states of Texas and Florida do illegal immigrants commit less crimes than their legal immigrant counterparts (Texas with 6900 illegals imprisoned per 100,000, compared to 65 legal immigrants and Florida with 55 illegals imprisoned, compared to 68 legal immigrants).
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We or our families are people who ditched the rest of the country for the West, so we tend to be a little more sympathetic to immigrants (and hey, a lot of us are immigrants or descended from recent immigrants).
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In addition, more than one Government Accountability Office report shows that recidivism among illegal immigrants is high — 2628 percent of illegal immigrants had between two and 28503 arrests, and 22019 percent of illegal immigrants had experienced 11 or more arrests.
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Here's how undocumented immigrants access health care now: Some undocumented immigrants have insurance Some 0003% of the non-elderly undocumented were uninsured in 2017, compared to 23% of lawfully present immigrants and 8% of citizens, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Mom-and-pop shops aren't the only ones closing their doors to support immigrants as part of the "A Day Without Immigrants" protests.
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ARISTIMUNO: Well, I&aposm not saying this is against Latino immigrants, I&aposm saying this is this is against immigrants as a whole.
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His spokesperson highlighted the need to prioritize highly skilled immigrants: Cotton spox; Only 1 in 15 immigrants come here because of their skills.
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Research shows that people in many western countries greatly overestimate the number of immigrants — in this case, Muslim immigrants — coming into their country.
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I love this country and this city, in part because of the immigrants and the diversity of cultures immigrants bring to this country.
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Why it matters: Studies suggest that more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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Sixty-one percent of Australia's top 50 startups were founded by immigrants or children of immigrants, according to the 2016 StartupAUS Crossroads report.
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"Utah welcomes legal immigrants from around the world, Washington sends immigrants a message of exclusion," Romney said in his announcement video in February.
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A "Day Without Immigrants" strike shut down businesses across the country on February 16 — and immigrants plan to strike again on May 1.
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Her main platform is reducing immigration Like her father, Le Pen wants way less immigrants in France — and we're talking about legal immigrants.
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Critics, citing statistics that show American citizens are more likely to commit crimes than immigrants, say it's an effort to further demonize immigrants.
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In fact, 42 percent of our workforce is made up of immigrants and another 6 percent is made up of children of immigrants.
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"The administration has already left a huge mark on the lives of nonwhites in America—particularly immigrants, and particularly unauthorized immigrants," she wrote.
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The American Immigration Council cites that only 14 percent of detained immigrants acquired legal counsel, compared with two-thirds of non-detained immigrants.
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Can Americans really trust Donald Trump, who rose to power by demonizing undocumented immigrants, to collect a database of those immigrants' genetic information?
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He pardoned eight immigrants over the summer who were convicted of minor crimes, and in December 2017 pardoned 61 people, including 85033 immigrants.
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But to truly understand the role of immigrants in the United States, we must look to the states and localities where immigrants live.
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Still, alienated immigrants, however few in number, make up a larger proportion of bad actors than so-called Trojan Horse immigrants and refugees.
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The main categories of immigrant visas are Immediate Relative (IR), Family Preference (F), Diversity Immigrants (DIV), Employment Preference (E) and Special Immigrants (SIV).
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Congressional leaders who claim to support immigrants must ditch the notion that most immigrants must suffer so that young people can be protected.
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According to CNN, besides sheltering undocumented immigrants, the church will also respond to raids, fight deportation cases and give "radical hospitality" to immigrants.
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By 2011, when she was 85, about 20 percent of the population of England and Wales were immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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The very same critiques we hear now about Latino immigrants were once used to criticize large groups of immigrants who arrived from Europe.
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Immigrants and the children of immigrants have carried out some of the more high-profile terrorist attacks in the United States this year.
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Immigrants founded more than 40 percent of U.S. Fortune 500 companies, a good example of why high-skilled immigrants are essential to growth.
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Most street vendors are immigrants and people of color, and their customers are often other low-wage immigrants of color, according to Documented.
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Instead of just looking at the impact of the presence of "immigrants" in a particular area, they looked at different types of immigrants.
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He said that while the motivations of, for example, Polish immigrants and Somali immigrants are probably similar, the two groups differ in appearance.
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The proposal indicates immigrants would have to be "cleared first," but it's unclear whether that refers to the coronavirus or the immigrants' investments.
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About 95 percent of the middle school's students are black or Hispanic, many of them the children of Jamaican immigrants or immigrants themselves.
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Andrew Yang: I'm the son of immigrants myself, so I agree that immigrants make our country stronger and more dynamic economically, culturally, socially.
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For Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders, these attacks are personal — 92 percent of adult Asian-Americans are immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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Refugee protections are granted to immigrants who are still abroad, whereas asylum is reserved for immigrants who have already arrived on US soil.
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The rule, which critics call a "wealth test" for immigrants, bars legal immigrants from obtaining public benefits such as food stamps and Medicaid.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday released details on how it will prosecute undocumented immigrants and criminal immigrants under President Trump.
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Trump was talking about immigrants from Haiti and Africa, adding that the US should be taking in more immigrants from countries like Norway.
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" Morales said he believes legalizing undocumented immigrants will benefit the United States economically because those immigrants would "contribute more and pay more taxes.
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The White House's framework forces Democrats to choose: Are they willing to win citizenship for 1.8 million unauthorized immigrants by abandoning future immigrants?
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The diversity visa, which lets in 50,000 immigrants annually, was a primary entry point for Bangladeshi immigrants 10 years ago, Mr. Cissna said.
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It is important to note that not all Latinos are immigrants, and not all the immigrants making their way to Iowa are Latino.
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Interestingly, while the order signed by Trump specifies returning immigrants to the "territory they came from," the draft memo implies that immigrants crossing over from, say, Mexico could be sent back there even if they weren't Mexican — which, given the demographics of immigrants coming into the US in recent years, means a lot of Central American immigrants would end up stuck in Mexico.
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The measure, approved during a churchwide assembly in Milwaukee, pledges that in addition to providing shelter for undocumented immigrants, the ELCA could: -- Respond to raids, deportations and the "criminalization" of immigrants and refugees; -- Fight individual cases of deportation, press for the end of mass detentions and lift up immigrants' voices; -- Take "prophetic action" to extend "radical hospitality" to immigrants and immigrant communities.
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ICE is aggressively prosecuting immigrants it used to let go ICE is aggressively prosecuting immigrants it used to let go For years, prosecutors for Immigration and Customs Enforcement had the discretion to drop cases against low-risk or otherwise law-abiding undocumented immigrants.
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Americans have an unfortunate tendency to overestimate how many people in the United States are immigrants — possibly because many white Americans assume that most Latinos in the United States are immigrants (and some assume most Latinos in the United States are unauthorized immigrants).
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Related: How Private Prisons Are Profiting From Locking Up US Immigrants Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be motivated to keep immigrants locked up due to the "detention-bed mandate," a congressional mandate to keep 230,2000 immigrants detained at any given time.
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But that success has revolved around South Bend being open to immigrants: 60 percent of the area's population growth in recent years has come from immigrants, and those immigrants have been more likely to hold a bachelor's degree than the native population.
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"Whether it be typhus and Irish immigrants and the bubonic plague and Chinese immigrants, cholera and Russian Jews, when Mexican immigrants were coming across the border after an outbreak of typhus in El Paso, they were literally sprayed with insecticide," she said.
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It will be on immigrants seeking to get green cards so they can immigrate to be with their families — a group that accounted for more than 40 percent of all green cards (for new immigrants and immigrants already in the US) in 2016.
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For example, immigrants are more likely to move to California for job opportunities — a state where 35 percent of immigrants are first-generation and where spending is among the highest — than to West Virginia where only 1 percent of immigrants are first-generation.
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A 2013 study of Turkish (Muslim) and Russian immigrants in Germany found that the more religious the immigrants were (or, in the case of Russian immigrants, the more attuned to ethnic identity), the less likely they were to be sympathetic to radical action.
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He says his data shows high incarceration among "illegal immigrants," but the actual term in the records is "deportable" — a category that includes both unauthorized immigrants and legal immigrants who've lost their legal status, often because they've been convicted of certain crimes.
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Since that wave of immigrants, the community has diversified significantly, and Indian-Americans are now the second largest group of immigrants after Mexican-Americans.
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Nigerian immigrants are matched only by Chinese and Indian immigrants in that more than half are employed in management, business, science and art occupations.
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But while the visa was devised to aid Irish immigrants, it also ended up helping African immigrants, and others who indeed had been underrepresented.
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He wants to deport all 11 million unauthorized immigrants from the US and ban any Muslim immigrants, authorized or not, from entering the country.
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Immigrants arrests are up 40% under the Trump administration, largely because ICE has been stepping up the arrests of immigrants who aren't committing crimes.
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Expand legal counsel for undocumented immigrants, particularly through the Legal Orientation Program, which seeks to ensure immigrants know their rights when they're being detained.
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Where immigrants have come from: For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the vast majority of immigrants came from Western and Northern Europe.
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This language is also alarming considering that Trump often blurs the line when talking about undocumented immigrants involved in crime and immigrants in general.
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Donald Trump, on the other hand, staked his candidacy to the idea that he would be harsher on immigrants—especially undocumented immigrants—than Obama.
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Trump has also promised to deport as many as 22019 million undocumented immigrants, which has sent chills through communities where undocumented African immigrants live.
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While supporters of anti-immigrant policies may target undocumented immigrants, the findings show that legal immigrants feel the hostile environment as well, it said.
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In 1907, 21625 million immigrants were processed through Ellis Island alone; in 2900, there were about 220006,2202 lawful immigrants into the entire United States.
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The administration is also planning to build new detention facilities, deport more immigrants without a court hearing and publicize crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.
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We must make sure that immigrants, be they asylum-seekers or other kinds of immigrants seeking better lives, are treated with dignity and respect.
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This year's elected class also includes several immigrants, refugees and children of immigrants representing Saudi Arabian, Iranian, Ethiopian, Indian and Mexican heritages, among others.
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Fact Four: Immigrants are Very Entrepreneurial According to the Harvard Business Review, immigrants are twice as likely to start businesses than U.S. born people.
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"As a son of immigrants, I will tell you this Trump rule, the way it targets and attacks immigrants, it is personal," Becerra said.
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Last year, a Fox News poll found that 83% of voters favored allowing "illegal immigrants" working in the United States to become legal immigrants.
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The immigration portion shows two mock border fences with the words "immigrants endanger us" on one side and "immigrants enrich us" on the other.
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In short, many candidates are ignoring that we are a nation of immigrants and that we rely on immigrants to make our country work.
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He claimed that Mexican immigrants were "bringing crime" even though research consistently shows that immigrants have a lower crime rate than the native-born.
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Where immigrants have come from: For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the vast majority of immigrants came from Western and Northern Europe.
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In particular, rural voters are far more hostile to immigrants than urban voters — especially in communities where there are few immigrants to be found.
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Furthermore, recent immigrants fear speaking out more than second-generation immigrants do because even their valid displays of frustration will be interpreted as hostile.
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This language is also alarming considering that Trump often blurs the line when talking about undocumented immigrants involved in crime, and immigrants in general.
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As immigration enforcement has ramped up generally, immigrants with old criminal convictions — including legal immigrants, even green card holders — have become especially appealing targets.
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The Trump administration has repeatedly tried to crack down on immigrants' use of public benefits, even for immigrants who are in the US legally.
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Many of the first major wave of Asian immigrants around the late 19th century were laborers, like the Chinese immigrants during the gold rush.
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El Paso's story is quintessentially an American story: We are a city of immigrants, situated proudly at the border of this nation of immigrants.
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Immigrant rights groups have predicted the new public charge policy will discourage poor immigrants from seeking necessary services and drastically curtail visas for immigrants.
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By the end of the British referendum in 2016, the number of EU immigrants matched the number of immigrants from all over the world.
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In addition to inflating the number of immigrants, the political rhetoric coming from the right issues ominous warnings about immigrants from Mexico in particular.
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Whether it's by starting businesses or leading a city, immigrants and descendants of immigrants play a critical role in the fabric of our country.
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Immigrants. Most of what constitutes a "traditional" American Christmas was brought over to us by immigrants, beginning with the Germans in the 6900's.
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He plans to publish data on crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants, and to identify state and local jurisdictions that release immigrants from custody. Why?
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The gap is similar for immigrants: While 251% of voters who disapprove of Trump say immigrants face discrimination, just 22020% of Trump supporters agree.
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"How many people here can say they are immigrants, the child of immigrants or the grandchild of immigrants?" he asked the boisterous, screaming supporters waiting for Hillary Clinton on Thursday in a gymnasium at East Los Angeles College just outside his center-city district.
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The publication also reported that the president took aim at Nigerian immigrants as well, saying immigrants from the African country would never "go back to their huts" in Africa after moving to the U.S. He also reportedly said Afghan immigrants came from a terrorist haven.
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Immigrants from Asia have stayed mostly steady over the last decade at just more than one in six immigrants in the program, while people from Oceania as well as South and Central America make up just a small fraction of total immigrants in the program.
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But it is clear, when you look at what Donald has been proposing, he started his campaign bashing immigrants, calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals and drug dealers, that he has a very different view about what we should do to deal with immigrants.
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Though Mr. Trump has sharply widened the pool of immigrants that ICE can deport, to actually locate them ICE relies on both information from local law enforcement about when they happen to arrest such immigrants and their cooperation in detaining those immigrants for ICE.
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But most of them want this to happen because they want to see more skilled immigrants come to the US — while the Trump administration wants the same number of skilled immigrants, and simply wants fewer unskilled immigrants and family members to come alongside them.
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But it is clear, when you look at what Donald has been proposing — he started his campaign bashing immigrants, calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals and drug dealers — that he has a very different view about what we should do to deal with immigrants.
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It could mean that deportations of unauthorized immigrants increase substantially, and that the government passes other laws designed to inspire unauthorized immigrants to "self-deport," so that by the time the border is ruled secure, there aren't many unauthorized immigrants left to deal with anyway.
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More of the long-run fiscal benefits of immigrants accrue to the federal Treasury through the tax payments of adult immigrants and their grown children.
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On immigration, 59% support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, but 53% support requiring immigrants from Muslim countries to register with the federal government.
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It gained 4,400 new immigrants—not enough to offset the population loss, but a significant increase in the share of immigrants in the city's population.
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Our Medical Review for Immigrants initiative links clinicians with pro bono attorneys to get #immigrants with urgent health needs out of detention and into care.
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Asked if immigrants mostly helped or mostly harm the economy, the majority of those who offered an opinion in 2017 thought that immigrants mostly helped.
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"They're worried about immigrants coming in and taking their jobs, they're worried about social expenditures for the immigrants when they've got tight budgets," he said.
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The 13 states (plus the District of Columbia) siding with the administration have 2.6 million potentially eligible immigrants — half of all immigrants who could benefit.
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Still, the cases have drawn further scrutiny to the work of ICE in handling detained immigrants and the facilities where immigrants are processed and held.
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Using personal stories over statistics, getting immigrants and non-immigrants to mingle more and emphasising what unites the two groups could warm people to immigration.
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I wrote about it in the book, in Texas, people that were really against immigrants who sat across from immigrants, who said, you know what?
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" Jennifer Chang Newell, managing attorney with the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, said in a statement that the administration's actions were putting immigrants in "grave danger.
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Celebrating a country that was made great by immigrants and then turning around and barring immigrants from that country is...not getting your story straight.
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The question is: Will that come at the expense of immigrants and their allies — many of whom, both immigrants and allies, are marching this weekend?
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He would deport the 11 million illegal immigrants living in America and end "birthright citizenship" for children born in the United States to illegal immigrants.
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So much so that impersonating an ICE agent seems to be one of the latest tactics adopted by anti-immigrants to extort and harass immigrants.
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Trump has famously advocated for a ban on all Muslim immigrants, which has since been modified to cover immigrants from countries with known terrorist ties.
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They assume high-skill immigrants will always want to come to the U.S. to found the next Google or eBay – companies both built by immigrants.
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A Cato Institute study in 2628 found that the incarceration rate of immigrants, including unauthorized immigrants, is actually less than that of native-born Americans.
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We are a country of immigrants that has held sacred the right to request asylum and has honored the contributions of immigrants to our country.
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While President Trump and his administration target immigrants, Castro can say he is an American born descendant of immigrants and a friend to those communities.
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Reducing the number of low-skilled immigrants allowed in the country would diminish the workforce available for industries that depend on those immigrants, Graham warned.
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" He also wrote, "The great majority of unauthorized immigrants came here to find work and raise their families, like most immigrants have throughout our history.
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" She railed against Trump for his rhetoric regarding immigrants last month, tweeting that "immigrants, legal or not, are people who want to improve their lives.
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He made immigration synonymous with crime Perhaps the most consistent theme of his young administration is that immigrants, especially immigrants of color, are a danger.
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If illegal immigrants constituted only a small part of that, then legal immigrants' share of incarcerations would be twice their share of the overall population.
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Like many immigrants, and children of immigrants, the Phams, who write a food blog called The Ravenous Couple, had been asking themselves why for years.
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Its premise is that researchers who are immigrants themselves stand the best chance of getting honest and nuanced insights about the census from fellow immigrants.
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They say the policies also protect undocumented immigrants who are otherwise law-abiding, but opponents counter that such immigrants should not be immune from deportation.
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Democrats want a clean bill to protect the immigrants, but Mr. Trump questioned why immigrants from Haiti and parts of Africa should be protected too.
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He wants to lock up more immigrants — including toddlers — as a deterrent while casting all new unauthorized immigrants as potential, if not probable, violent criminals.
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Forget for the moment that a "merit"-based policy would have kept out many white immigrants of earlier generations, as well as recent Asian immigrants.
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The writing is filled with white nationalist language and racist hatred toward immigrants and Latinos, blaming immigrants and first-generation Americans for taking away jobs.
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According to the Pew Research Center, 59 percent of Americans say immigrants strengthen the country, compared to 33 percent who describe immigrants as a burden.
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Are you fearful for the status of those Dreamers — the future of the young immigrants and all immigrants in this country, with a new administration?
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Trump's support for increasing the proportion of higher-skilled immigrants, he explained, could offset negative economic efforts from shrinking the number of additional immigrants overall.
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Nor do the apology or belated fixes change the fact that this was due to the government's hostility to immigrants, and especially immigrants of color.
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When French right-wingers complain of being "colonized" by immigrants, the humiliation is doubled by the knowledge that these immigrants are people they once colonized.
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Mr. Wilkes said that creating an office that focused on helping victims of undocumented immigrants left out one group of victims: the undocumented immigrants themselves.
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It's the chefs — many who are immigrants — cooking the food they know and the children of immigrants innovating on those traditions with their American experience.
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Allowing undocumented immigrants to work as lawyers is a sign of just how far the acceptance of such immigrants has come in places like California.
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"Utah welcomes legal immigrants from around the world -- Washington sends immigrants a message of exclusion," Romney said in the video he posted announcing his run.
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The crime rate of immigrants is about one-half that of the U.S. population as a whole, and immigrants are more compliant in paying taxes.
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What's next: Immigrants are contributing significantly to population growth, and Frey predicts first- and second-generation immigrants may drive an increase in mobility going forward.
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We've got 993-some [groups] with the largest population outside their home countries, 63 percent of Angelenos are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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The US is a country of immigrants, and there should be a "fair and equitable way" for unauthorized immigrants in the US to become citizens.
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The US-born children — the "second generation" — of immigrants (specifically black and Latino immigrants) are often less educated and earn less money than their parents.
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Plus, in a departure from past trends, immigrants increasingly have similar fertility rates to US natives (or even lower in the case of many Asian immigrants).
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If these costs are attributed equally to immigrants and natives on a per capita basis, immigrants appear costlier to government budgets than do the native-born.
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Just ask Obama Immigrants urged to 'know the risks' Activists have said some unauthorized immigrants, fearing deportation, may skip routine check-ins with US immigration authorities.
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They direct the government to dramatically increase its capacity to detain immigrants, and dictate that it should detain nearly all immigrants caught near the US border.
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While Trump cites specific instances of violence committed by immigrants, many studies have found that, in general, immigrants are actually less likely to commit violent crimes.
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Mr Wilders delivered his usual attack on immigrants, declaring at one point that European blondes are growing afraid to show their hair for fear of immigrants.
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In the long-run, immigrants tend to reduce the wages only of past generations of immigrants (whose skills presumably overlap strongly with those of the newcomers).
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That's why they've started arresting immigrants showing up for annual "check-ins" at courthouses, waiting for immigrants who they know will show up for court dates.
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The video "Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)" portrays refugees and immigrants from around the world in camps, garment sweatshops, fruit-picking fields and crowded trains.
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That's been ticking up as immigrants and their US employers try to anticipate the Trump administration's increasingly strict immigration policies that prioritize immigrants with graduate degrees.
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The plan does not deal with the "Dreamer" children of immigrants in the country illegally or immigrants under Temporary Protected Status, both priorities of Democratic lawmakers.
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" Rubio attacks Trump again for hiring undocumented immigrants: "If he builds a wall the way he built Trump Tower, he'll use illegal immigrants to do it.
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Male immigrants at Karnes, and women and girl immigrants detained in Dilley, Texas, are among migrants who were reunited last week and then detained, RAICES said.
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Surveys also show most voters believe immigrants contribute to our society and that they also don't buy the argument that immigrants are more prone to crime.
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The 1996 Welfare Reform Act cut the number of programs immigrants are eligible for, and limited access to those programs to a smaller set of immigrants.
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"Then, finally, John, one really big deal, kind of a secret weapon: We actually know how to assimilate immigrants, even immigrants from different cultures," he said.
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These odious commentators claim that while most black and brown immigrants—and citizens—are eroding Western civilization, Asian immigrants are exceptional; they are the model minority.
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While undocumented immigrants had by far the lowest healthcare use, even immigrants who attained U.S. citizenship still used less healthcare than people born in the country.
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" President Trump has previously made negative comments about immigrants and refugees, including a 2015 campaign speech in which he said that Mexican immigrants were "bringing drugs.
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The move did not grant them citizenship, but it instructed federal agencies to defer deportations of lower priority immigrants in favor of higher priority illegal immigrants.
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Most of the immigrants, especially child immigrants, are from violent countries controlled by drug cartels and gangs: El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and some areas of Mexico.
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The party that celebrated President Ronald Reagan's optimism about immigrants now contains a majority that supports separating families at the border and criminally prosecuting undocumented immigrants.
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Trump promised a crackdown on illegal immigrants entering the United States and the deportation of illegal immigrants living in the country, especially those with criminal records.
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The data shows that undocumented immigrants are actually considerably less likely to commit crimes; states with more undocumented immigrants actually tend to have lower crime rates.
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While the federal government is trying to deport as many immigrants as possible, Oakland is running a policy experiment to help immigrants stay in their communities.
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In trying to erase our history, his administration recently removed the phrase "America's promise as a nation of immigrants" from the federal agency dealing with immigrants.
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Immigrants who have been admitted through the program have higher rates of employment and of finding work in professional or managerial occupations than most other immigrants.
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At an event Friday with families whose loved ones had been killed by undocumented immigrants, Mr. Trump suggested that immigrants commit more crimes than citizens do.
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But the chef, Carlos Salgado, the son of Mexican immigrants, said he had no illusions about how far immigrants still had to go in Orange County.
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Otherwise, it's another country: immigrants, blue-collar whites; the cops and firefighters that, like the immigrants, you see in most of Manhattan only in the daytime.
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The decision comes as immigration advocates have assailed the administration's efforts to hold more immigrants in detention writ large and its increased arrest of noncriminal immigrants.
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Respondents also underestimated the education level and overestimated the welfare reliance of immigrants; they overestimated the share of Muslim immigrants and underestimated the share of Christians.
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Between 80 and 90 percent of the children at Gouverneur are on Medicaid, Dr. McCord said, and the vast majority are immigrants or children of immigrants.
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All after the President blasted immigrants coming to America from "sh--hole countries" and asked why the US wasn't getting more immigrants from countries like Norway.
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Nationwide research also showed that states with larger shares of undocumented immigrants tended to have lower crime rates than those with smaller shares of undocumented immigrants.
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Immigrants are Americans of the future and the criteria we use to select or bar immigrants reflect our aspirations for the society we wish to become.
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But Trump's dismissal of immigrants coming from countries in Africa and central America -- and his preference for immigrants from countries like Norway -- has altered that dynamic.
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It paid tribute to Iranian immigrants in the United States, even as Mr. Trump's travel ban prevented relatives of those immigrants from entering the United States.
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Besides expanding the border patrol and preventing immigrants from coming in to the country, Trump also wants to boot at least 203 million undocumented immigrants out.
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"Utah welcomes legal immigrants from around the world -- Washington sends immigrants a message of exclusion," Romney said in a video Friday without mentioning Trump by name.
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I'm not saying immigrants are more resilient, but what I will say is that immigrants do form new companies at a higher rate than Americans do.
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Donald Trump rose to prominence by characterizing unauthorized immigrants as violent criminals and appearing at campaign rallies with people whose children were murdered by unauthorized immigrants.
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Others noted that this rhetoric almost exactly echoed the way that Americans in past generations talked about other immigrants, including Italian immigrants like Kelly's maternal grandfather.
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Thursday marked a "Day Without Immigrants," as Latinos and immigrants stayed home from work to demonstrate how much the country relied upon them and their labor.
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As an executive in a low-wage industry dominated by "low-skilled" workers (many of them immigrants, and often unauthorized immigrants), Puzder has been an outspoken supporter of low-skilled immigration to the US — and of immigration reform that would legalize unauthorized immigrants who are already here.
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The same pattern emerges in perceptions of immigrants, with white non-college partisans more apt than white partisans with degrees to say immigrants today are a burden on the United States and that the government should attempt to deport all immigrants currently living in the US illegally.
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Republican Trump's policy on immigrants has been criticized by Democratic lawmakers and advocates for immigrants, who said he was jeopardizing the rights and freedoms of millions while treating Mexico as an enemy, not an ally, and damaging the country's reputation as a welcoming place for immigrants.
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There's the challenge of financing therapy or psychiatry and any associated medications—especially given the number of immigrants who are uninsured, which is roughly 230 percent of lawfully present immigrants and 45 percent of undocumented immigrants (excluding elderly populations), according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.
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"A spotlight on 'exceptional' black immigrants often erases and makes invisible the lived experience of black immigrants who experience police brutality, state surveillance, poverty, and workplace discrimination, among other things," says Nekessa Opoti, a communications strategist at the UndocuBlack Network, an advocacy organization comprised of black immigrants.
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Trump, during the campaign trail, maintained he would deport immigrants in the US with criminal records, not focusing on immigrants in the US residing legally and lawfully.
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Immigrants and Muslim people concerned One frequent topic of discussion at these town halls is the President's words and actions with regard to immigrants and Muslim people.
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Donald Trump the candidate stereotyped Latino immigrants as rapists and murderers, and vowed to round up undocumented immigrants and create a Muslim registry reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
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Trump kicked off his campaign by labeling undocumented Mexican immigrants criminals and "rapists" and vowed to deport all undocumented immigrants living in the US during his campaign.
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The model minority narrative started in the 1960s, and the premise is at best overly simplistic, and at worst incredibly flawed: Asian immigrants are the "best" immigrants.
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Three African immigrants were arrested in connection with her death, and Mastropietro became a symbol of the violence that immigrants were alleged to be spreading across Italy.
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Indeed, the Pew polling shows that sentiment toward immigrants among Republicans hit new lows in May 2015, with only 27 percent of Republicans saying immigrants strengthened America.
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Look at data: A quarter of all Americans who have won Nobel Prizes have been immigrants, even though immigrants make up just an eighth of the population.
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For Trump: You've called Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals and advocated widespread deportation, you've blasted some Muslim immigrants and called for a temporary ban and extreme vetting.
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But Trump voters may be swayed by stories about immigrants who fought for America; traditionalists may be persuaded by highlighting how Latino immigrants share their family values.
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His department has changed its policy toward the immigrants it's not explicitly "focusing" on — which make up the overwhelming majority of unauthorized immigrants in the United States.
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That's a situation mirrored in Australia, where StartupAUS's statistics found that 61 percent of Australia's top 50 startups were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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Twenty-nine percent of these business owners and entrepreneurs are immigrants (if we add companies created by children of these immigrants, the percentage balloons to 61 percent).
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The protest called upon immigrants to stay at home and not participate in shopping, school or work, to highlight the significance immigrants have on the U.S. economy.
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After all, more than 50 percent of billion-dollar startups are founded by immigrants, and many of those startups were founded by immigrants on H-210B visas.
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Trump regularly traffics in gore about MS-13 to associate all immigrants with crime, but undocumented immigrants actually commit crimes at lower rates than native-born citizens.
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The starting point for reform is to reject the lie that undocumented immigrants are criminals and to accept the fact that immigrants are essential to our prosperity.
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The White House spin is that smugglers try to entice immigrants to cross with the promise of DACA, but these immigrants are savvy and news travels fast.
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As recently as 1996, Congress reaffirmed that the compact between immigrants and the American people included a commitment on the part of immigrants to be self-reliant.
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Like the founders, immigrants flocked to our shores ... Also in 1960, only 9.7 million immigrants lived in the US, accounting for just 5.4% of the total population.
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Our country is a nation built by immigrants and the Latino immigrants like my family are the root of every success that we will have moving forward.
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He has proposed attaching ankle monitors to undocumented immigrants as opposed to detaining them en masse, as well as emboldening immigrants seeking asylum in the United States.
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"Immigrants contribute more to this country than Donald Trump or Stephen Miller ever could — and their hate won't stop us from speaking out in defense of immigrants."
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A federal complaint filed Tuesday charges the defendants with transporting undocumented immigrants and conspiracy to transport and harbor undocumented immigrants resulting in serious bodily injury and death.
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At his announcement speech, the business tycoon called Mexican immigrants "rapists" who "bring crime" and later vowed to create a "deportation force" to expel all undocumented immigrants.
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"ICE has sort of declared open season on immigrants," Michael Tan, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project, told the newspaper.
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The people whose wages do fall tend to be earlier waves of immigrants — who are in direct competition with new immigrants, which native workers usually are not.
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According to study published this month in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, undocumented immigrants are far less likely than legal immigrants to request help for domestic violence.
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In addition to having a full waiver for certain immigrants based on military service economic need, the government is allowing more immigrants to pay a lower price.
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Remind Americans, immigrants and descendants of immigrants all, that we are a nation of laws and that a nation that cannot control its borders cannot survive. 5.
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The negative stories about immigrants are illuminated, while the stories about immigrants who reflect our best values as a country, appear to be pushed into the dark.
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While new immigrants continue to expand our communities, so do the grandchildren of post-1965 immigrants, born to parents who were also born in the United States.
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Mr. Obama may have deported more immigrants than past presidents, but at the same time, he protected undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children.
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"When Milton started, it was very much a New York thing, either immigrants or sons of immigrants, a couple of women but not many," Mr. Dorfman said.
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"And if you look at these problems ... it is unfortunately the case that immigrants, and not least illegal immigrants, are over-represented in these cases," he claimed.
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Transgender immigrants in ICE custody are often denied hormone treatment, according to a 2013 Center for American Progress report on the conditions LGBT immigrants face in detention.
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"I minister to immigrants because I am called to do so through Scripture," said Rhonda Thompson, director of the Nehemiah Center, which works with immigrants in Montgomery.
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The problem with the shiny, happy, teleological narrative of "immigrants assimilate," in other words, is that it really only works for the immigrants we currently consider white.
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Trump has attacked people who are black (protesting athletes, immigrants from African countries, President Obama) and brown (Mexicans, Muslims, immigrants coming north) and the Trumpublicans have cheered.
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Since the lottery's inception in 1990, the number of African immigrants has doubled each decade, and now about 2 million African immigrants live in the United States.
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The Reagan administration's amnesty for millions of undocumented immigrants, for instance, also increased security along the Mexican border and made it harder for undocumented immigrants to work.
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Those promises -- cliché though they may sound -- have brought millions of Chinese immigrants to these shores, as they have so many other immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
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No country admits immigrants exclusively using the points system that awards higher-skilled, more educated immigrants, even in the widely heralded Canadian system, and for good reason.
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He's interviewed immigrants and children of immigrants on his Instagram and Facebook page — the most viral of which was his dental hygienist — and opposes more physical barriers.
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He repeated grisly stories of violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants — never mind that the crime rate among immigrants is no higher than among native-born residents.
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It's filled with white supremacist language and racist hatred aimed at immigrants and Latinos, and the author says he encourages immigrants to return to their home countries.
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I think for everyone in this country — immigrants and non-immigrants — it really comes down to what kind of values do you want this country to hold.
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Despite the persistent myth of immigrants coming to the US to take welfare benefits, immigrants' eligibility for most public benefits in the US is pretty strictly limited.
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We are a country of immigrants, sure, but we're also a country that fears immigrants, and a country that tells stories that make that fear more potent.
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Their invitees are people who have faced violence or crimes from undocumented immigrants, though the idea that undocumented immigrants commit more crimes has been frequently debunked. Sen.
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Women in the US respond to the presence of low-skill immigrants by entering the labor force, because immigrants make child care and elder care more accessible.
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DHS memos signal strict new border enforcement and action on undocumented immigrants DHS memos signal strict new border enforcement and action on undocumented immigrants The Department of Homeland Security has drafted two new memos which aim to ramp up deportation efforts against undocumented immigrants in the United States.
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At the time, President Obama claimed that the immigrants who would be eligible for legalization under the DREAM Act weren't being deported anyway, since his administration was targeting "high-priority" immigrants (like those with criminal records) rather than "low-priority" immigrants who'd lived quietly in the US for years.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (responsible for deporting immigrants from the interior of the US) complain they're being prevented from deporting most of the unauthorized immigrants they apprehend; Border Patrol agents complain they're still being told to "catch and release" immigrants in particular circumstances, rather than detain them.
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In context, the message the Trump administration is sending immigrants through sunsetting the TPS program is the same message it's sending all other immigrants: Don't get too comfortable.
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What to do with undocumented immigrants Last year, Trump called for setting up a deportation force to remove all 11 million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States.
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It's notable, Selee says, that while the number of Guatemalan and Honduran immigrants coming to the US has increased significantly, the number of Salvadoran and Mexican immigrants hasn't.
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What immigrants' advocates want you to know The fears and warnings come amid court battles over President Donald Trump's proposed ban on immigrants from seven majority-Muslim nations.
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Although the number of unauthorized immigrants has decreased over the last decade, about 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live in the U.S. according to the Pew Research Center.
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In April, Trump gave a speech on immigration and lumped together asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants, making the argument that the US will not accept any more immigrants.
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Earlier studies looking at the rate with which immigrants have caught up with average American earnings have documented that Hispanic immigrants lag behind those migrating from other regions.
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We are immigrants and children of immigrants, people of color, Muslims, Jews, women, people living with or caring for those with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ community.
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As immigrants face multilayered attacks in a nation overrun with xenophobia, Ulukaya has found himself speaking out on behalf of immigrants, especially to counter some of Trump's remarks.
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And online forums, like the AsianParentStories subreddit, detail just how crushing it can be for Asian immigrants (or children of immigrants) to stay silent about mental health struggles.
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Only 37 percent of immigrants—and 14 percent of detained immigrants—have access to legal counsel, according to the most recent study by American Immigration Council in 2016.
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Trump's supporters believe immigrants should "do it the right way," and "get in the back of the line" without realizing that the line for undocumented immigrants doesn't exist.
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Now let's put this into perspective: Thirty-six percent of all top tech founders in the U.S. are immigrants — almost triple the percentage of immigrants in the country.
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He met with a group of unauthorized immigrants in 2013 and told them, "You've convinced me" that young immigrants who grew up in the US should get citizenship.
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Selecting high-IQ immigrants would ameliorate these problems in the U.S., while at the same time benefiting smart potential immigrants who lack educational access in their home countries.
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Another proposed rule could disqualify some immigrants — even legal immigrants — from certain visas or green cards if they use or are likely to use federal safety net programs.
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They harp away at this even though immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than natives, and even though cities with more immigrants have less crime rather than more.
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Fears of America being overrun by immigrants make a little more sense if you think that a third of people living in the United States are immigrants already.
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The Trump administration arrested roughly one-third more undocumented immigrants and more than double the number of non-criminal undocumented immigrants than the same time period in 143.
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Flashback: In December, Trump reportedly claimed that immigrants from Haiti "all have AIDS," and that after Nigerian immigrants saw the U.S., they'd never "go back to their huts."
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Or the one that in 2004, told a New York radio station that she was "adamantly against illegal immigrants" and that "people need to stop employing illegal immigrants".
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"There's always the horrible, fallacious view that you have to go after immigrants and then you point out a few immigrants that have committed horrible crimes," said Rep.
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He is one of thousands of undocumented immigrants being trapped by an increasingly out of control ICE, acting with impunity and without regard for the rights of immigrants.
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Agents had more power to decide which immigrants to arrest and put into deportation proceedings, because the pool of immigrants most vulnerable to deportation had expanded by millions.
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It is also indisputable that Trump supporters are disproportionately likely to believe that rising immigration threatens core American values; and to express animosity toward immigrants (especially Muslim immigrants).
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He's laid the groundwork for a much more aggressive policy of deporting undocumented immigrants, including cracking down on sanctuary cities and those who try to help those immigrants.
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Voters reported (50-28) that they believe that immigrants damage the economy (as opposed to making it better), with a fifth saying that immigrants don't have much effect.
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Worse, pedestaling successful Asian immigrant families also often silences and subjugates undocumented Asian immigrants, who represent one out of every seven Asian immigrants living in the United States.
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My mother and father were both immigrants to the U.S., and this decade anniversary of my mom's passing coincided with a shocking surge of negative rhetoric against immigrants.
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Given that nearly 18 million young people are immigrants or children of immigrants, this new policy could open the door to participation for unprecedented numbers of immigrant youth.
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His warnings about immigrants flooding over the border and a growing crime wave were more cultural than economic, though he did warn of immigrants taking jobs from Americans.
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Kansas' attorney general has argued that the state didn't use the I-9 to prosecute immigrants and that it obtained the immigrants' Social Security numbers from other forms.
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Not cracking down on illegal immigration or undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes, mind you, but on legal immigration—specifically for lower-skilled immigrants on temporary work visas.
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And Americans do the same thing with nationality — their feelings about "immigrants" are similar to their feelings toward Latin American immigrants, as opposed to European or Asian ones.
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Generally speaking, nations that allow immigrants into their society do so not to be generous, but because immigrants are useful for the growth and prosperity of the nation.
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Tales of immigrants are not scarce in the United States, but we Americans nevertheless maintain our shallow concept of their experiences — particularly those of Muslim immigrants in Europe.
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As the Trump Administration attempts to decrease the number of legal immigrants it allows into the U.S., it's helpful to remember that we are a country of immigrants.
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It's an ironic twist for a presidential campaign that's marked itself by casting aspersions on immigrants in general, and "illegal" immigrants in particular, for the past 17 months.
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Immigration agents under Obama saw their job as rounding up unauthorized immigrants; their Obama administration superiors saw their job as protecting the public from immigrants who committed crimes.
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Schools have struggled to find ways to teach the country's dark history to young Germans, many of whom are recently arrived immigrants or are the children of immigrants.
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Millions of Latino voters know unauthorized immigrants; in some cases, eligible voters are the siblings or children of immigrants who would have qualified for Obama's abortive immigration programs.
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But many are potentially xenophobic in the sense that they fear Mexican — and perhaps other Latino — immigrants, because of the cultural impact such immigrants may have on America.
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Among Latinos and immigrants, the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, is very popular, the only gain that Mr. Obama has achieved for undocumented immigrants.
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If cities really want to protect immigrants, they must also end the quota-driven style of policing that makes immigrants the victims of unnecessary arrests and disproportionate punishment.
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Immigrants are vulnerable to abuse in many ways: landlords ignoring unsafe housing, employers forcing immigrants to work in unsafe conditions, bullying at school and untold acts of intimidation.
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These latest actions reveal the clear disdain this administration has for a woman's right to control her own body and its hostility towards immigrants, particularly immigrants of color.
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When deportable immigrants are arrested, some go into mandatory detention but some must be released as the US can only physically detain about 40,000 immigrants at a time.
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According to a recent study by the Center for American Entrepreneurship, more than 2628 of the Fortune 28503 companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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The foreign heritage of black immigrants like 21 Savage as well as first-generation children of African immigrants such as myself doesn't counteract their blackness, and vice versa.
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That trend has fueled the notion that immigrants are stealing jobs from other Iowa residents: Immigration opponents believe immigrants are willing to accept lower salaries and dodge taxes.
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They zeroed in on the data about young unauthorized immigrants — and called them "DACA-aged illegal immigrants," implying that DACA was offering cover to large numbers of criminals.
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The meeting was held to discuss the possibility of allowing immigrants from certain countries to remain in the U.S after the Trump administration announced a plan earlier in the week to kick out 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants and 45,000 Haitian immigrants in the U.S. since deadly earthquakes struck their countries years ago.
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Yahoo News is under fire for running an advertisement that includes the line "Immigrants Endanger Us."To promote its app, Yahoo News is running the ad with "Immigrants Enrich Us" and "Immigrants Endanger Us" on blue and red barbed-wire walls that intersect in the middle to create a purple space.
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ICE has published a list of jailed immigrants who were released before they could be deported ICE has published a list of jailed immigrants who were released before they could be deported The Trump administration took a step forward Monday in its plan to publicize crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.
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Similarly, Hillary Clinton, who once declared herself "adamantly against illegal immigrants," is now much more likely to enumerate the ways in which immigrants, whether authorized or not, enrich the nation's economy; Trump's proposals, on the other hand, were driven largely by his intuition that immigrants are a drain on resources.
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According to the advocacy group Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which reviewed data on immigrants from African and Caribbean countries from the Department of Homeland Security Yearbook and the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, 76 percent of black immigrants are deported on criminal grounds, compared to 45 percent of all immigrants.
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There's one provision in the White House framework that could make life much harder for unauthorized immigrants: a proposal to allow immigrants who've overstayed their visas to be deported without an immigration court hearing (though it's not clear yet whether this would apply to immigrants who have overstayed visas already).
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Trump's proposal claims that Mexico got $22 billion in remittances from "illegal immigrants" last year; in fact, that's the amount of remittances sent to Mexico period — from legal immigrants, unauthorized immigrants, and even Mexican emigrants in countries other than the US (though the last group only sent 2 percent of remittances).
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Olney and other entrepreneurship researchers have found high levels of business creation among immigrants, especially first-generation immigrants who were born elsewhere and later moved to the United States.
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If a Trump presidency were to either slow the tide of immigrants or actually force immigrants already here to leave the country, that would trickle down to housing demand.
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The Washington Post reports the administration is circulating drafts of additional executive actions that would change the visa process and target immigrants -- and potential immigrants -- who receive public assistance.
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Immigrants' advocates and attorneys say that more cases like Pedrote-Salinas's are likely to emerge under the Trump administration, which has vowed to aggressively track down immigrants in gangs.
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Notably, native-born Americans were approximately four times more likely to report violent behavior than Asian and African immigrants and three times more likely than immigrants from Latin America.
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Black immigrants do somewhat better on both counts while white and Asian immigrants considerably outperform, ending with median earnings approximately twice those of Hispanic migrants 20 years after arrival.
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"That happens in all sorts of law enforcement realms, but immigrants are especially vulnerable to that exploitation, because there's misinformation that immigrants don't have rights," the attorney told me.
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But if they feel unconstrained by the law and mainstream notions of what is acceptable for immigrants, we should too — guided by a commitment to the rights of immigrants.
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Three out of 10 of its 1.5-million-strong population are immigrants, or the children of immigrants, mostly from Africa, a similar proportion are classed as living in poverty.
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And it's also, just like the stepped-up raids, another way to remind immigrants that no matter who calls California a "sanctuary," it can't really protect immigrants from deportation.
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The brief highlighted the contributions of immigrants to the technology industry and claimed that barring immigrants from certain countries would prevent tech companies from recruiting the very best employees.
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But here's how immigration could change that: The number of immigrants in the US peaked in 20173, when the population had 22017 million more immigrants than the previous year.
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Here are the vetted statistics: In California, there are just over 92 illegal immigrants imprisoned for every 100,2023 illegals as compared to 74 citizens and legal non-citizen immigrants.
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In New York, over three times as many illegal immigrants or 169, are imprisoned for crimes per 100,000, as compared to only 48 citizens and legal non-citizen immigrants.
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As if the massive increase in arrests of immigrants were not enough, DHS has launched what appears to be a highly aggressive campaign aimed at demonizing and criminalizing immigrants.
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Undocumented Asian immigrants in the U.S. are more than 1 million of the 11 million undocumented immigrants, the vast majority of whom have lived here for over 85033 years.
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Because they know undocumented immigrants will not turn to the police, for fear of detention and deportation, MS-13 is increasingly able to recruit and threaten immigrants with impunity.
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In 2011 a study by Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri, two economists, found that immigrants seem to compete mostly with other immigrants, even when controlling for age and education.
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On the other hand, there is good reason to believe that immigrants are more vulnerable to crime themselves, partly because undocumented immigrants may fear reporting crimes to the police.
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"Microsoft is a company of immigrants in a nation of immigrants," Smith wrote late Tuesday in a blog post discussing immigration and the separation of families at the border.
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Pope Francis slammed politicians who spread fear of immigrants, calling on them to stop instigating violence and racism and instead adopt "practical measures" to welcome immigrants into their countries.
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The percentage of immigrants relying on welfare programs almost precisely mirrors the percentage of immigrants who are admitted to the United States under our failed family chain migration policies.
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What's more, for the Justice Department to force undocumented immigrants into the shadows by squelching policies that foster community trust leaves those immigrants more vulnerable to crime and exploitation.
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"Microsoft is a company of immigrants in a nation of immigrants," Smith wrote late Tuesday in a blog post discussing immigration and the separation of families at the border.
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IMMIGRANTS DOMINATE AT STARTUPS: A new study found that 51 percent of startups currently valued at more than $85033 billion were founded by immigrants, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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As a congresswoman, she opposed giving amnesty to undocumented immigrants, supported boosting the number of border patrol agents and speeding deportations, and opposed issuing drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants.
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The government does not provide any legal representation to immigrants in deportation cases automatically, so it is up to the detained immigrants to find lawyers who can help them.
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The murder of Debra Bissell's parents, for example, does not constitute evidence that illegal immigrants commit more violent crimes than legal immigrants or individuals born in the United States.
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PARIS IS AMONG the most multicultural cities in the world: More than one in three residents of the greater metropolitan area are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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"It's often easier to welcome refugees in families of second-generation immigrants, or among immigrants who have lived here a long time, rather than among Italian families," Mossino said.
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"The common thread linking the major Islamic terrorist attacks that have recently occurred on our soil…is that they have involved immigrants or the children of immigrants," he said.
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I am the president of Solidarity Strategies, a small business in Washington, DC and I'm proud to say all of my employees are either immigrants or children of immigrants.
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" Laura Ingraham, editor in chief of the conservative website LifeZette "His only use of Spanish in election was to further nasty stereotypes against Latino immigrants — and ONLY Latino immigrants.
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The measures are the latest in a long line of immigrant-friendly policies passed by the Legislature, whose members include a number of immigrants and the children of immigrants.
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But here's how immigration could change that: The number of immigrants in the US peaked in 2128, when the population had 20173 million more immigrants than the previous year.
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It temporarily bars entry for immigrants and visa holders from seven Muslim-majority countries — Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen — rather than targeting all Muslim immigrants everywhere.
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The bigger obstacle, though, isn't qualifying to immigrate — it's that the number of hypothetically qualified family-based immigrants greatly exceeds the number of slots available for immigrants each year.
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Over the past 20 years, immigration law has changed to make more legal immigrants deportable, while immigration policy has changed to make deportation a realistic fear for more immigrants.
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One senior official said the young immigrants would not be targeted, but are "illegal immigrants" who would be processed for deportation if they came into contact with immigration officers.
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"The American dream was being extended to the immigrants of Europe but not to the black and brown citizens, many immigrants themselves, of this city, this country," she said.
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Rescinding DACA either caters to a base that wants the United States to be unthinkably cruel to immigrants, or fulfills officials' desire to force immigrants into hopeless, difficult situations.
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The lifeguard trainees at Grover Cleveland are predominantly students of color, about half of them male and half of them female, and most are immigrants or children of immigrants.
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It also led to the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, which removed the "national origins" quota favoring European immigrants, which resulted in a much broader pool of immigrants.
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"Too many immigrants of color do not acknowledge their debt to African Americans," Nunez told a group of young writers, many of whom were immigrants or descendants of slaves.
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Asking about citizenship, especially in a political climate hostile to immigrants, will result in noncitizens and even legal immigrants -- still fearful of Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- not being counted.
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Background: President Trump has demanded that citizens and legal residents who sponsor immigrants in the U.S. pay the government back for any public benefits used by the sponsored immigrants.
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The White House is proposing to reward two million law-breaking immigrants while millions of law-abiding immigrants are stuck in a seemingly arbitrary and perpetually frustrating legal structure.
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Companies including Apple, Amazon, and Google were cofounded by immigrants or the children of immigrants, while startups to trillion-dollar goliaths rely on worker visas to stock their ranks.
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"There's a segment of people who want to call people illegal immigrants, undocumented immigrants, as part of either not offending people or as a marketing technique," Mr. Nowrasteh said.
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Officials are trying to carry out President Trump's months-old directive demanding that sponsors of immigrants pay the government for the costs when those immigrants used certain public benefits.
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The actual number of housing discrimination incidents against immigrants is likely far higher, though immigrants are often afraid to bring these cases forward, the commission and advocacy groups say.
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But the immigrants also created competition for work, and even in areas with few immigrants, British workers who have lost their industrial jobs often blame foreigners for their troubles.
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Mr. Trump has said that whatever his position on undocumented immigrants, he will preserve protections for so-called Dreamers — undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children.
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Many of the Jews we write about were immigrants or the descendants of immigrants from Europe, and many indeed left because of persecution there, particularly during the Nazi era.
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The draft dealing with legal immigrants' use of social services could have further-reaching implications for legal immigrants currently in the US than anything the president has already signed.
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In what's sure to be a frightening time for undocumented immigrants, RAICES, a Texas nonprofit that provides legal services to immigrants, was quick to remind people of their rights.
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Trump said that with a 3.8 percent jobless rate, the United States needs immigrants for jobs that need to be filled, but he wants them to be legal immigrants.
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Trump advocates banning Muslims from traveling to the United States, he's threatened to limit the free press, and made offensive statements toward women, immigrants, descendants of immigrants, and foreign nationals.
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Remember, he began his candidacy with assertions that Mexican immigrants were "rapists" and drug dealers, and finished it with unsubstantiated claims that "millions" of people, presumably undocumented immigrants, illegally voted.
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This means apprehended immigrants can expect to spend even more time detained, with some immigrants likely choosing to be quickly returned to their home countries rather than languishing behind bars.
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It recommends that legal immigrants who pay for their children to come to the US be referred for criminal prosecution — and that unauthorized immigrants who do the same be deported.
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CLINIC, one of the largest U.S. providers of legal aid to immigrants, and its affiliates interviewed more than 2,700 immigrants in seven southern states, including Florida, Georgia, Virginia and Texas.
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While the Trump administration is painting undocumented immigrants as dangerous, Cynthia Buiza, executive director of the advocacy group California Immigrant Policy Center, argues that healthier immigrants can be more productive.
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Also: There's a very big difference between saying that we don't want any more immigrants to this country and saying we can't fit any more immigrants in this country. 403.
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The report says the IRA created Facebook posts that frequently "expressed tolerance of extremist views," by calling immigrants "parasites," and pitting groups such as veterans and immigrants against one another.
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Border Patrol agents have sometimes referred to immigrants in their custody as "disgusting," and asked if the nurse is upset that immigrants coming into the US are using hospital resources.
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Recent work by George Borjas of Harvard University shows that while wages have historically been lower for illegal immigrants than legal immigrants or native-born citizens, they are rapidly rising.
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The state has limited the ability of police to detain immigrants for federal deportation agents since 2014, and requires jailers to inform inmates if agents are trying to detain immigrants.
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If the view is that immigrants divide the country because they do not share deep cultural roots with its majority population, that suggests that not all immigrants are created equal.
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The Cato Institute's analysis of incarceration rates suggests 1.53% of native-born Americans aged 18-54 are in prison compared to 0.85% of illegal immigrants and 0.47% of legal immigrants.
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During the second half of Mr Obama's second term, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were asked to focus on arresting newly arrived immigrants and undocumented immigrants with felony convictions.
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Even among those white, working-class voters who view immigrants as a burden, 210% say immigrants from Muslim countries are good people compared with 29% who say they are not.
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The group of CEOs, investors, and policy advisors argue that immigration drives entrepreneurship, noting that 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies are founded by immigrants and the children of immigrants.
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Becerra, a son of immigrants himself, joined 85033 other Democratic attorneys general this week in opposing Trump's executive order temporarily blocking all refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations.
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You can see the link (Donald Trump is afraid of immigrants, British racists are afraid of immigrants), but what they thought turning up at this protest would achieve is unclear.
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Schools where more than a quarter of students are immigrants usually perform worse than those with no immigrants (see chart), although the gap shrinks when economic status is accounted for.
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In other words, most immigrants depend on welfare programs because most immigrants are not admitted based on any objective assessment of their likelihood to become self-reliant after settling here.
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Despite the role that immigration played in driving the Brexit vote, the U.K. will not only need immigrants but may want to be seen as an inviting place for immigrants.
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Holding the use of Obamacare or CHIP against prospective immigrants means that they will be discouraged from using these programs, which could endanger the health of non-immigrants as well.
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He would also end the use of for-profit detention facilities, limit the amount of time immigrants spend in detention centers and ensure immigrants get better access to legal counsel.
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To show immigrants are not criminals Elaine Alvarez, 37, said she joined family members at a rally at Foley Square in New York to break stereotypes about immigrants being criminals.
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According to the libertarian think tank's analysis, the rate per 100,000 residents in each subpopulation was 899 for undocumented immigrants, 611 for legal immigrants and 1,797 for native-born Americans.
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"Under the Obama administration, immigration detention has skyrocketed to record levels," said Cecilia Wang, the director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project and a lawyer for the class of immigrants.
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"We also know, based on the recent case striking down Arizona's ballot initiative against employing illegal immigrants, there were five justices who voted for great leniency toward immigrants," he said.
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The people in Canada have a different feeling about immigrants, I think, because here there are mostly immigrants and everyone has a story to tell about how they arrived here.
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America is a nation of immigrants and immigrants have been demeaned for more than two centuries, the French, the Irish, the Jews, the Asians, the Mexicans, and now the Muslims.
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Mr. Emanuel encouraged immigrants to call a hotline for legal advice, and said Chicago would quickly set up a municipal identification program to allow undocumented immigrants access to city services.
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The West Indian immigrants who travelled to post-war Britain in the late 27s congregated in urban parts of the country alongside postcolonial African immigrants, forging new Afro-Caribbean communities.
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They continue to source material from undocumented immigrants and their allies, often incorporating numerous articles of clothing into a single pillow, literally sewing together the vestiges of different immigrants' stories.
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And instead of creating pathways for low-skilled immigrants to work legally in the US, Trump has proposed an immigration plan that would specifically favor immigrants with advanced college degrees.
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The Dreamers table lists the top occupations and the percentage of workers for the two groups of individuals – immigrants who are DACA-eligible and unauthorized immigrants who are DACA-ineligible.
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As the New York Times recently reported, several studies on crime and undocumented immigrants found "that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than people born in the United States."
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Or they insist that he wants to make it easier for immigrants who will contribute to American society to come to the US and harder for immigrants who won't contribute.
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In the interview last month, he suggested that immigrants could be admitted if they demonstrate proficiency in Japanese, but in the past, Japan has used language requirements to bar immigrants.
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DACA is the pinnacle of non-enforcement; not only does it protect illegal immigrants from deportation, it provides benefits that by law are reserved for American citizens and legal immigrants.
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Customs and Border Protection had previously said it would not give flu vaccines to immigrants it detains, which would've included immigrants sent back to Mexico, despite recommendations from the CDC.
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While Trump and his top officials often highlight cases of violence committed by immigrants, studies have shown immigrants do not commit crimes at a higher rate than native-born Americans.
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That was Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, speaking about a gunman's attack on two bars frequented by immigrants in Hanau late Wednesday, killing nine people — all immigrants or their descendants.
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Trump's message could not be clearer: Why are we taking in immigrants from places primarily populated by black and brown people when we should be taking in more white immigrants?
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He could label Latino immigrants as rapists and thugs, insist all Muslim immigrants were coming to destroy the United States, assert African American voters were about to steal the election.
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Deporting immigrants who are undocumented, and thus here illegally, is a much smaller subset of all immigrants, and aggressive deportation of this group has been pursued in past administrations too.
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And of course, the shooting that Beto stepped away from his campaign to handle in El Paso had to do with immigrants, had to do with Latino immigrants in particular.
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Biden said then that immigrants should "get in line" with American law and he expressed support for policies that would "cherry-pick" highly-skilled immigrants to admit into the country.
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We are a tightknit group in which everyone shares a similar quirky sense of humor, and as immigrants (and children of immigrants) we have supported each other through many hardships.
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It also called for a law that punishes sanctuary cities (which help protect immigrants from deportation), measures to allow ICE to detain immigrants indefinitely, and steep reductions to legal immigration.
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Also: There's a very big difference between saying that we don't want any more immigrants to this country and saying we can't fit any more immigrants in this country. 123.
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Trump reportedly referred to immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as coming from "shithole countries," suggesting the U.S. should bring in more immigrants from countries such as Norway.
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Why it matters: A decision will affect immigrants who are convicted of crimes, especially important as the Trump administration steps up deportations of immigrants who are convicted of small crimes.
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It would make the very "merit-based" immigrants it claims to welcome less likely to want to stay because highly skilled immigrants often want to live with their families, too.
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And young deportable immigrants were the most overrepresented in Arizona's prisons: Deportable immigrants "between 213 and 213 make up 133% of the total population and 213% of convicts," Lott wrote.
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All available research suggests that immigrants who've received DACA protections have been able to go further, educationally and economically, than other unauthorized immigrants — or than they would have without DACA.
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For one thing, the question is not about illegal immigrants, or even immigrants at all; it's not about crime, or welfare, or jobs ... it's just about racial diversity as such.
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Immigrants who turned themselves in to border patrol agents after illegally crossing the border from Mexico into the US. Christina Fialho, coexecutive director of Freedom for Immigrants, an advocacy group that seeks to abolish immigration detention, denounced the transfer of hundreds of detainees to federal prison as an attempt to criminalize vulnerable immigrants.
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Washington (CNN)The white, working-class Americans who form a backbone of Donald Trump's political support have a split view of Muslim immigrants -- strong majorities believe both that immigrants from Muslim countries increase the threat of terrorism in the United States, but also that most immigrants from those countries are good people.
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And because immigrants who've been living in the US for longer and don't have criminal records are likely to fight deportation harder and longer, arresting more of those immigrants — as ICE is doing — is likely to swell the backlog even more than arresting the same number of immigrants with criminal records would.
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During his rise, Trump madly lied about Mexican immigrants, claiming they're rapists and murderers, promised to form a deportation force to remove 11 million immigrants from the US, said he'd imprison his political opponent, called for a ban on Muslim immigrants, said women who have abortions should be punished, and opposed marriage equality.
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House Democrats' Dream and Promise Act, introduced in March, is an attempt to give a pathway to citizenship to two major groups of immigrants whose legal status President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened: unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the US as children (known as DREAMers) and immigrants with temporary humanitarians protections.
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The Trump administration has argued extensively that picking immigrants up in jails is safer for both ICE agents and immigrants, and warned that when they can't get easy access to immigrants in jails they resort to picking them up at home (often causing panic about raids) or in safe places like courthouses.
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"I have a profoundly positive story to tell that as a nation of immigrants, we should remind ourselves that our success, our strength and yes, our safety and security, depend on the fact that we are a city of immigrants in El Paso, a nation of immigrants across this country," he said.
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Tech leaders have long been cheerleaders of immigration reform, mostly because their industry would grind to a halt without immigrants: About a quarter of the technology and engineering companies founded in the US have been spearheaded by immigrants, and research shows immigrants are nearly twice as likely to start their own businesses.
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After the 63 failure of the DREAM Act, President Obama claimed that the immigrants who would be eligible for legalization under it weren't being deported anyway, since his administration was targeting "high-priority" immigrants (like those with criminal records) rather than "low-priority" immigrants who'd lived quietly in the US for years.
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Under the new policy, the following types of immigrants are among those prioritized for deportation: immigrants who "have committed acts that constitute a chargeable criminal offense" (which includes driving without a license in states that don't give licenses to unauthorized immigrants); immigrants who engage in "fraud or willful representation in any official matter" (which could include paying taxes under a fake Social Security number); and immigrants who, despite not having committed any act that constitutes a "chargeable criminal offense," are still a "risk to public safety or national security" in the eyes of the ICE agent arresting them.
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Federal law also requires the government to detain certain immigrants who are apprehended entering the US without papers, as well as immigrants who have been convicted of certain types of crimes.
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It's an ambitious attempt to protect two groups whose legal status has been threatened repeatedly by the Trump administration: young, unauthorized immigrants known as DREAMers and immigrants with Temporary Protected Status.
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"Removing and/or cloaking works made or donated by immigrants lets us articulate what immigrants contribute and what we would lose in their absence," Davis Museum Director Lisa Fischman told Hyperallergic.
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To date he has focused his campaign on keeping immigrants out — whether through a physical wall, banning Muslims from entering American borders, or sending undocumented immigrants back to their native countries.
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Using the same data, Cato researchers controlled for education levels, family size and income to see whether immigrants were more likely to use welfare benefits than non-immigrants in similar scenarios.
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Muslim immigrants sometimes said they had a more legitimate claim to rights in the US since they were "legal" (or at least perceived as such, unlike, say, Mexican immigrants), she noted.
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The divide looks even more stark when you separate Latino Catholics from the rest, with immigrants more likely than non-immigrants to accept that climate change is a problem, Zaleha said.
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Deportation, Brooks said, should be reserved for undocumented immigrants with criminal records, while members of Congress should find a way to agree on a path to legalization for law-abiding immigrants.
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Of course, even if allowing immigrants in constitutes a favour rather than a duty, once the immigrants settle down the host country gradually incurs numerous duties towards them and their descendants.
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Before presenting the award for Best Production Design, Nyong'o and Nanjiani — who are both immigrants — gave a shout-out to young, undocumented immigrants currently awaiting a pathway to permanent US citizenship.
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Keeping track of new immigrants - and distinguishing them from existing EU immigrants who did not need to fill in forms when they legally settled in Britain - is likely to be tricky.
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Similar to the initial reported plan, ICE agents are targeting at least 2,000 immigrants for deportation across 10 major cities and could also sweep up immigrants who aren't the initial targets.
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For most Americans, though, the difference that matters isn't between legal and unauthorized immigrants — it's between immigrants they find likely to assimilate into "American culture" and those who (they believe) cannot.
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Voters from conservative religious and working-class backgrounds, Russian-speaking immigrants and Mizrahi Jews (who are descended from immigrants from the Arab world) had been supporters of Likud since its founding.
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Why it matters: While President Trump draws attention to an "invasion" of illegal immigrants and the need for a border wall, the share of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. is falling.
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"While Washington refused to act and the Americans continued to spew their hatred towards immigrants, Sacramento actively worked to protect our immigrants," he wrote, referring to the state government of California.
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In other words, immigrants pose an imminent threat to the safety of American society, regardless of the fact that immigrants are statistically less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans.
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Democrats say it's a well-known fact that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes, but they say Trump is using fear of immigrants for political gain among his voter base.
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"The common thread linking the major Islamist terrorist attacks that have recently occurred on our soil ... is that they have involved immigrants or children of immigrants," he said on Aug. 15.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, asked whether he wanted more immigrants from Norway, said on Tuesday that he wanted the United States to draw immigrants from nations around the world.
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Immigrants and U.S.-born workers usually do not compete for the same jobs, and immigrants are not the cause of any significant decline in wages or employment for U.S.-born citizens.
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" Many outlets reported on the comments with headlines declaring that Trump had referred to "some undocumented immigrants" (The New York Times) or simply "undocumented immigrants" in general (USA Today) as "animals.
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The former offers eligible immigrants from underrepresented countries the chance to obtain residency, while the latter refers to federal immigration laws that allow U.S. immigrants to sponsor family members for visas.
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" He has faced criticism for his rhetoric about immigrants dating back to the launch of his presidential campaign in 2015, when he suggested that some Mexican immigrants were "criminals" and "rapists.
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Their goal is to turn scraps of used clothes from undocumented immigrants into 34,000 pillows — representing the number of beds that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement fills each day with detained immigrants.
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Critics warn the question will deter immigrants in the country illegally from filling out the census, which could lead to less federal aid to areas with high populations of such immigrants.
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Before 2014, immigrants were terrorized by the enforcement guidelines under the program where thousands of undocumented immigrants were thrown into deportation proceedings for minor infractions such as driving without a license.
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Participants whose lists included either radically conservative positions (ban immigrants entirely) or radically liberal positions (accept all immigrants) were more likely to recalibrate their view of what the centrist stance was.
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He has focused more extensively than any previous national candidate on crimes committed by illegal immigrants despite strong evidence that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans.
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More than half of the top American tech companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants, Mary Meeker revealed in her annual report on the future of the internet.
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Various polls have found strong support for immigrants currently living in the country, as well as welcoming new immigrants who seek freedom and the opportunity to realize their own American dream.
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While we debate issues of safety from immigrants, those same immigrants face threats to their health and higher death rates in the near- and long-term than their U.S.-born counterparts.
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This policy overwhelmingly affects Indian immigrants, who make up 70 percent of all H-1B recipients and must wait longer for green cards than most immigrants because of per-country quotas.
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Not only are approximately 40 percent of undocumented immigrants uninsured, but various clinics across the US have also reported a downturn in immigrants seeking appointments since the Trump administration took office.
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To President Trump, the proposal represents a compassionate solution for the generation of immigrants known as DREAMers, one Democrats could only reject if they didn't really care about immigrants after all.
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It certainly indicates the Trump administration isn't terribly worried that high costs might prevent some eligible immigrants from becoming citizens — or might prevent some immigrants from maintaining their legal status, period.
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When California granted illegal immigrants the opportunity to get a driver's license in 19203, Department of Motor Vehicles offices were swamped, with illegal immigrants coming in at twice the expected rate.
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And according to the pro-immigration American Immigration Council, in 2015, 253,152 of those jobs were occupied by immigrants, a share that was higher than immigrants' percentage of the overall population.
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It reallocates the 50,000 visas under that program to either immigrants already living in the country with expiring temporary legal status, or to immigrants from underrepresented countries on some nonlottery basis.
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Did you know that 40 percent of all Fortune 500 companies — accounting for $4.8 trillion in revenues and 19 million employees — had founders who were immigrants or the children of immigrants?
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Many of those immigrants, Hernandez said, have been picked up for infractions as minor as disorderly conduct, public intoxication, or driving without a license (undocumented immigrants can't get licenses in Texas).
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Our poll finds, however, that Americans are most positive in their assessment of immigrants from Europe, followed by Asia, and least positive in their assessment of immigrants from the Middle East.
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And it skirts any discussion of legalizing unauthorized immigrants currently in the US — including immigrants facing the loss of their deportation protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
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Virtually all research concludes that immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants, commit fewer crimes, including violent crimes, than native-born Americans (among other things, they do not want to draw attention to themselves).
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He has also harshly criticized President Donald Trump, calling him a white supremacist and saying his rhetoric targeting immigrants has inspired a rise in hate crimes and efforts to target immigrants.
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The danger is that these measures will alienate the skilled immigrants already here and encourage potential immigrants to bypass Australia and settle in more welcoming nations like Canada and New Zealand.
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Denouncing Muslim immigrants as "termites," Mr. Shah has pushed comprehensive laws against Muslim immigrants through the Indian Parliament and, with equal chutzpah, broken up the only Muslim-majority state in India.
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In recent months, the city has seen a number of concerts championing immigrants' rights, on scales both large (SummerStage's Selena for Sanctuary event) and small (Union Pool's Freedom for Immigrants benefit).
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Last month, the pope slammed politicians who spread fear of immigrants, calling on them to stop instigating violence and racism and instead adopt "practical measures" to welcome immigrants into their countries.
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Even before the crackdown on immigration from Latin America intensified, children of Spanish-speaking immigrants were already embracing English to a large degree, just as descendants of other immigrants have done.
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The conditions included requiring grant recipients to allow federal agents to interview immigrants in their custody and to provide the federal authorities with notice when immigrants were scheduled to be released.
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The only feasible way to get millions of undocumented immigrants out of the country, as Trump has promised, is to create a climate that induces immigrants to leave on their own.
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During the talks on a possible bipartisan bill to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants and boost border security, Trump questioned whether the U.S. needed more Haitian immigrants, Durbin said.
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Following September 11, most states (including Michigan) made it considerably more difficult for undocumented immigrants to drive legally; in most states, undocumented immigrants can no longer obtain a U.S. driver's license.
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On Wednesday, Trump took steps to bar senior Iranian officials and their immediate family from entering the United States as immigrants or non-immigrants, the White House said in a proclamation.
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Several Malawian immigrants fled as protests in KwaZulu-Natal province turned violent, with demonstrators claiming that immigrants had taken jobs and businesses meant for citizens, South African website Times Live reported.
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" According to the calculations of Princeton University researchers, "Out of a total of nearly 26 million immigrants admitted between 21625 and 2900, more than 220006 million were chain migration immigrants (2202%).
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A comprehensive study of non-European Union immigrants into Denmark between 1991 and 2008 found that immigrants did not push down wages, but rather freed natives to do more pleasant work.
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Arpaio, who was facing jail time for his arrests of immigrants in contempt of a court order, has been accused of racial profiling and poor treatment of immigrants in his custody.
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And for the last year, Latino voters have been hearing that Donald Trump thinks Mexican immigrants are rapists and murderers, unauthorized immigrants "have to go," and Latinos can't be fully American.
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The "why" is: We enforce our laws, and because we believe in our own sovereignty, and I believe that illegal immigrants shouldn't be able to cut in front of legal immigrants.
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Nor does it deal with the "Dreamer" children of immigrants in the country illegally or immigrants in the country under Temporary Protected Status, both of whom are priorities of Democratic lawmakers.
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The immigrants protected through DACA grew up in the US; people might not assume they are unauthorized immigrants, and they might not have even known it themselves until they were teenagers.
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My grandfather was here from -- INGRAHAM: Legal immigrants. Legal.
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Authorities discovered 54 illegal immigrants inside the truck Tuesday .
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The Hamilton Mixtape – "Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)"
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" On Tuesday, he said he wants immigrants from "everywhere.
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Veterans, immigrants, disabled workers — and all Americans — deserve better.
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LONDON — The Czech president has called Muslim immigrants criminals.
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Why would immigrants — parents and children — take these risks?
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Most illegal immigrants come — and stay — for the jobs.
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" " 'Immigrants are dirty' is a lazy, tired, racist trope.
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" Some characterized this as him saying immigrants are "animals.
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To garner support for such a measure, the White House made several false claims about immigrants and their impact on the welfare system: The new bill doesn't do much more than current laws do to prevent immigrants from collecting welfare — in large part because it's actually quite hard for immigrants to get public assistance.
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"The American people are not going to accept the premise that immigrants are criminals and that we ought to deport the DREAMers," he said, referring to the hundreds of thousands of young unauthorized immigrants brought to the United States as children; these are the immigrants Democrats are seeking protections for in the shutdown debate.
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Trump also has moved to rescind protections for young immigrants called "Dreamers" who were brought to the United States illegally as children, as well as acting against states and cities that protect illegal immigrants, ending protected status for certain immigrants in the country for decades, intensifying deportation efforts and pursuing limits on legal immigration.
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But the two studies don't point to immigrants posing more of a threat of crime than citizens born in the U.S. Among people aged 18-54, 2023 percent of natives are incarcerated, as are 0.85 percent of undocumented immigrants and 0.47 percent of documented immigrants, according to the Cato study of comparative incarceration rates.
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But if the debate over immigration is actually about a belief that nonwhite immigrants pose an existential danger to America and Americanness as a whole, and that "demographics" require Haitian immigrants to be expelled from the country while hypothetical immigrants from Norway are welcomed with open arms, then there is no ready compromise at hand.
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From the country's first naturalization law in 2202 that limited citizenship to "free white persons," to the exclusion of Chinese immigrants beginning in 2628, to the racialized "national origins" quota system erected in the 28500s that favored Western European immigrants and excluded Asian immigrants, the United States long regulated immigration along unapologetically racist criteria.
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But Democrats (and some local law enforcement officials) argue that the Trump administration is nonetheless using MS-1333 to demonize all immigrants — that immigrants themselves are the biggest victims of MS-1323, and that harsher immigration enforcement impedes the kind of community policing that allows police officers to distinguish innocent immigrants from gang members.
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Though Trump has promised to deport undocumented immigrants who've committed crimes first, he's also pledged to build a massive deportation force, which could lead to the exodus of some 11 million immigrants.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is also standing up for Dreamers and other immigrants in the city when he re-affirmed Chicago is and will be a 'sanctuary city' - which welcomes all immigrants.
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The memos could also further inflame tensions with immigrants, their advocates and Democratic lawmakers who have been highly critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's arrests of nearly 700 immigrants nationwide this month.
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I stood up -- joined by the dozens of Boston leaders who are first- and second-generation immigrants -- and said that we will not change our values or turn our back on immigrants.
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Immigrants who are also criminals do exist: The Migration Policy Institute has estimated that of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., about 7.5 percent have been convicted of a crime.
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Go deeper: Why Central Americans flee to the U.S. despite "zero tolerance" The big picture: Caravan of Honduran immigrants advances into Mexico The U.S. is back to being a nation of immigrants
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The evidence couldn't be clearer: If you were to look at homicides in the U.S., the overwhelming majority of those are not committed by immigrants or undocumented immigrants, but native-born Americans.
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An estimated 12 million immigrants came to America through this gateway -- some of the benches we were sitting on were used by the immigrants who came to New York harbor on ships.
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It's only in this era that immigration to the United States has really become a global phenomenon — with European and Mexican immigrants joined by Asian, Central and South American, and African immigrants.
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Prior to ICE's changes to its risk assessment software that result in mandatory detention for all apprehended immigrants, the only immigrants that would automatically be detained were those with serious criminal histories.
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He infamously called some Mexican immigrants "rapists," and focused his presidency around the idea that he would build a wall, get tough with Mexico and deport as many undocumented immigrants as possible.
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Approximately 2.7 million undocumented immigrants were legalized in the late 1980s and early 1990s but, by the beginning of 85033, they had been replaced entirely by a new group of undocumented immigrants.
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Miami (CNN)The Trump administration late Thursday night officially rescinded an Obama administration immigration policy that would have protected millions of undocumented immigrants -- but left intact a separate initiative for young immigrants.
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For many undocumented immigrants, keeping their families together is a big driver to remain in the country, but many activists and researchers say immigrants' economic contributions are an important factor to consider.
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But while the aggressive posture toward undocumented immigrants has been visible in the number of arrests, the first part of the year marked a decline in the number of immigrants actually deported.
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In the latest case, the administration had appealed a 2016 9th Circuit ruling that favored immigrants, a decision it said would undermine the government's ability to deport immigrants who have committed crimes.
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The paradox of this emotional debate is that generally the states and communities with the fewest immigrants are pushing to reduce immigration over the objections of the places with the most immigrants.
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It's also a reflection of the "good immigrant" narrative, which celebrates immigrant labor, rather than immigrants, and further implies that not all immigrants—and thus not all Americans or people—are equal.
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Rubio suggested his amendment adds "parity" between non-refugee Cuban immigrants and other immigrants, who are currently ineligible for most federal benefit programs for five years after arriving in the United States.
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Lopez Obrador said immigrants should not be blamed for problems in the United States, pointing instead to distribution of income, the lack of a progressive tax system and the treatment of immigrants.
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According to data from U.S. Citizenship and Naturalization Services, immigrants and native-born citizens use government services at roughly the same levels, although immigrants face limits on which services they can access.
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Immigrants from Mexico and Central American countries who entered the United States before 22019 are also much more likely to send remittances, as are younger immigrants and those who have a mortgage.
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The statement from the two senators condemning violence from immigrants in the country illegally comes despite two studies last year showing that immigrants on average commit less crime than U.S.-born citizens.
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In the first half of 2017, arrests of undocumented immigrants rose nearly forty per cent above arrests made in the first half of 2016, and arrests of noncriminal immigrants more than doubled.
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False claim: Virtually all immigrants disappear Trump also claimed falsely that when immigrants are let into the country to have their cases heard by a court, they virtually all go into hiding.
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Unfortunately, Trump has been spending the better part of his time on the national stage bashing immigrants, embracing nativists, and supporting costly plans to secure our border and deport undocumented immigrants haphazardly.
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House votes to bar undocumented immigrants from health tax credits The House passed legislation Tuesday to ensure that immigrants in the country illegally can't access tax credits for health insurance premiums. Rep.
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Believers argue that white people are being systematically "erased" by their inferiors, and thus require an influx of white babies and new white immigrants (and the exclusion of nonwhite immigrants) to survive.
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President Trump would like to see more expedited removals of undocumented immigrants — a way to legally circumvent immigration courts before deportation for certain undocumented immigrants, Sarah Sanders said in Monday's press briefing.
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But admitting new immigrants carries costs, too, like pressure on land, housing and natural resources, and lower wages for workers with scant education who compete directly with immigrants in the labor market.
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Trump has pledged to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico to keep immigrants out and to deport the millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States, should he be elected.
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Lindsay Toczylowski, executive director of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, a firm that represents immigrants, said bringing 1,000 immigrants into a prison 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles would strain legal resources.
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Drones can have loud bilingual speakers to talk to illegal immigrants trying to cross into America, and they can also have facial recognition software to see if immigrants are on criminal lists.
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California farms are heavily dependent on immigrants to fill their physically demanding and often low-paid jobs, and it is no secret that many of those immigrants are in the country illegally.
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Instead of addressing asylum seekers and immigrants already in the US, Trump's plan emphasizes the "exception immigrant" narrative, which assumes that the only immigrants of value to a country are highly educated.
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But today, immigrants passed over to ICE are even more likely to face deportation since the Trump administration is prioritizing all undocumented immigrants for removal, noted Austin immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch.
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Those immigrants would be strongly vested in the future of their new homeland, and the viability of family farms that have long relied on agricultural labor supplied by immigrants might be resuscitated.
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That argument may not sway an administration whose leader has derided immigrants as criminals and rapists, and which most recently decided to attack legal immigrants for using public resources including health care.
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It's not new: People have been expressing fears that immigrants' religions make it impossible for them to adopt American values since the immigrants were Irish and German and the religion was Catholicism.
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It is filled with white nationalist and racist hatred toward immigrants and Hispanics, blaming immigrants and first-generation Americans for taking away jobs and the blending of cultures in the United States.
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Bashing Mexican immigrants has played well for at least 20 years with the state's other significant base of immigrants: Anglo retirees with nest eggs and a leeriness of their new Latino neighbors.
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Twenty-one percent of DACA-protected immigrants work in education and health services, compared with 7% of undocumented immigrants and 16% of all U.S. workers, according to CAP and Labor Department figures.
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The administration has broadly pushed to lower the number of all kinds of immigrants who enter the United States, including pursuing policies that favor immigrants who are able to financially support themselves.
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Similarly, if the bias against immigrants is high (or if the perceived share of free-loaders is high), even a small overestimation of the share of immigrants can reduce support for redistribution.
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By adopting a more open policy toward immigrants — including the creation of a path to citizenship for some categories of immigrants — China could expand its economy while improving its moral standing globally.
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He vilifies immigrants every chance he gets and used the Department of Homeland Security to put out a report using cherry-picked statistics that wrongly depict the majority of immigrants as terrorists.
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While studies show that the immigrants contribute considerably more to the British budget in taxes than they receive in benefits, there are worries that the immigrants are taking jobs away from Britons.
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One effectively makes it harder for immigration courts to be lenient with undocumented immigrants; the other may restrict the ability of immigrants awaiting asylum hearings to be let out of detention. 5.
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Canada and Australia aren't the only ones surpassing us in terms of welcoming immigrants; 17 developed countries accept more legal immigrants as a share of their population than does the United States.
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But lawyers representing immigrants said the proposed fees, especially those for asylum applicants, could violate the United States' legal obligation to provide immigrants fleeing dangerous conditions to a full and fair hearing.
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Although Irish immigrants were the intended and real beneficiaries of the program as it was originally intended, African and Eastern European immigrants have received the bulk of diversity visas in recent years.
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When we're fearful, we're vulnerable to politicians who play on our fears and scapegoat immigrants; in the fullness of time, we come to regret our xenophobic behavior and to appreciate the immigrants.
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Under the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security has announced the end of TPS for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Sudan and Nicaragua but extended it for immigrants from South Sudan.
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The number of suspects classed as immigrants - those applying for asylum, refugees, illegal immigrants and those whose deportation has been temporarily suspended - rose to 174,438, 52.7 percent more than the previous year.
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If you look at our history, almost half of Fortune 500 companies were founded by either immigrants or children of immigrants, and rates of business formation are much higher in immigration communities.
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