Donald Trump has opened the floodgates to lies about immigration. Here are the myths, and the facts MYTH: Immigrants take away American jobs. Wrong. Immigrants add to economic demand, and thereby push firms to create more jobs. MYTH: We don’t need any more immigrants. Baloney. The U.S. population is aging. Twenty-five years ago, each retiree […]
Economists tend to agree that immigration is good for the economy: Immigrants create jobs and make U.S-born workers more prosperous. Opponents of this idea often cite the work of Harvard labor economist George Borjas to argue that, at the very least, low-skilled immigrants steal jobs that low-skilled Americans would normally […]
(SAN ANTONIO) — A federal judge has chosen for now not to force Texas health officials to change their stance in denying birth certificates to immigrant families with U.S- born children, saying that the families raised “grave concerns” but more evidence is needed, according to a ruling issued Friday. U.S. […]
Homeland Security email points to ongoing racial profiling by local police
16 Oct
by Foster, on News
An internal email from a Department of Homeland Security lawyer is raising questions about the ongoing use of ethnic profiling by local police against immigrants, despite an Obama administration effort to stop using the justice system to round up low-level suspects for deportation. Two Honduran men, waiting for a ride […]