On Sept. 9, 2015, the U.S. Department of State published an historic visa bulletin for October 2015, which would have allowed a higher-than-anticipated number of employment-based applicants from India and China to file their green card applications on Oct. 1. On Friday, Sept. 25, the State Department revised the visa bulletin such that far […]
It probably won’t surprise you that there’s a growing polarization among Americans over how to deal with several immigration policy proposals. Whether it’s Donald Trump’s idea for a massive border fence or the proposal to change the Constitution so that babies of unauthorized residents aren’t automatically made citizens, Republicans and […]
The immigrants who have recently come to the United States are the most highly educated in history. A Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data shows that 41 percent of immigrants arriving in the past five years had completed at least a bachelor’s degree. By comparison, only 20 percent of newly […]
The recent images of tens of thousands of desperate asylum seekers streaming into Europe recall a smaller but significant migration crisis unfolding along the southern border of the United States: Waves of Central American migrants — many of them children — were detained at the border last year. A disturbing […]