By Dane Schiller Federal agents warn that university researchers - on the cutting edge of everything from fighting cancer to improving farming – need to guard against foreign spies seeking to exploit their brilliance by stealing their work. Houston’s vast ties to the medical and energy sectors mean academics here […]
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to rescue the president’s overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. urged the court to take prompt action to reverse an “unprecedented and momentous” appeals court ruling last week that blocked President Obama’s plan […]
By Miriam Jordan For the first time since the 1940s, more Mexicans have been leaving the U.S. to return home than arriving, a reversal that brings down the curtain on the largest immigration wave in modern American history, according to a new study. Mexican migration has been falling for some […]
Foster, Cominsky: Our fears should not scare us into leaving refugees to uncertain lives
18 Nov
by Foster, on News
By Charles C. Foster and Martin B. Cominsky This week’s decision by a number of U.S. governors, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, to block resettlement of Syrian refugees is deeply troubling to those of us who care about the lives of refugees. We share the same grief and horror wrought […]