By Amy Taxin LOS ANGELES — The vast majority of immigrant children who arrive alone at the U.S. border are placed by the government with adults who are in the country illegally, federal data reviewed by The Associated Press show. The government has long said that it places the children […]
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By Yoree Koh A new non-partisan study on entrepreneurship gives some credence to the tech industry’s stance that American innovation benefits from robust immigration. The study from the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-partisan think tank based in Arlington, Va., shows that immigrants started more than half of the […]
By Pamela Constable LEESPORT, Pa. — The latest battleground in the raging national war over illegal immigration is a quiet, red-brick compound in central Pennsylvania, surrounded by woods, fields and a playground with swings and jungle gyms. Inside are 96 women and children who fled violence-plagued Central America last year […]
This election season, Sandra Ocampo is running her own campaign. Last week, Ms. Ocampo, 21, who immigrated from Nicaragua to Yonkers five years ago, showed up at a citizenship drive sponsored by the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights in Inwood. After having her photo taken at a nearby travel […]