Mexican immigrants in NY and NJ left homeless, jobless in Superstorm Sandy's ...
NEW YORK - Superstorm Sandy plunged some immigrants living illegally in the U.S. into darkness and even deeper into the shadows.www.washingtonpost.com
Conversation on Comprehensive Immigration Reform Changes After Election
"My expectation is that we get a bill introduced and we begin the process in Congress very soon after my inauguration," Obama said.www.wnyc.org
KIRK: Immigration driving shift in state politics
Link those numbers with a dropout rate of 20 percent, and you have a circumstance where, as New York Times columnist Ross Douthat writes, many immigrants "aren't assimilating successfully - or worse, are assimilating downward." Put otherwise, the ...www.nctimes.com
Bosnian immigrant gets life sentence in plot to blow up NY subways
NEW YORK -- A Bosnian immigrant convicted of plotting to blow up New York subways and other targets was sentenced Friday to spend his life in prison, the first member of a three-man team of would-be jihadists to be punished in connection with a plan ...www.latimes.com
Hurricane Sandy's Forgotten Victims
The Mexican consulate in Manhattan has estimated that some 380 of its citizens in New York and New Jersey have suffered losses because of Sandy.latino.foxnews.com
New Immigrants & Refugees Coming to Buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y (WKBW) This week the nation will celebrate Thanksgiving and remember the Pilgrims, who were some of the country's first immigrants. Over 200 years, waves of immigrants have come to America seeking a new life, and many found Western ...www.wkbw.com
Massachusetts Dreamers Get In-State Tuition
Places like New York, Illinois and Rhode Island offer in-state tuition to any student who meets certain criteria, like attending a local high school, regardless of immigration status. Three states -- California, New Mexico and Texas -- go a step ...abcnews.go.com
From the New York Times to Politico, How the Media Covered the Latino Vote
"Some analysts and Republican strategists argued that the party could not win while alienating the growing Hispanic vote with its tough stance on immigration," Michael Cooper noted in the New York Times, "could no longer afford to nominate candidates ...abcnews.go.com
Column: Thankful for immigrant roots
She sent the young people through Ellis Island in New York, to a New World that offered them no helping hand and couldn't even pronounce their names.www.usatoday.com
Ky. Voices: An immigrant's story of thanksgiving
While my plane circled John F. Kennedy airport before landing, I saw Lady Liberty and Ellis Island, icons of the New York skyline that many immigrants have seen upon arriving in this country. I thanked God that my journey to the United States was ...www.kentucky.com
More Young Illegal Immigrants Apply for, and Receive, Reprieves
Three months after the Obama administration started a program that gives temporary reprieves from deportation to young immigrants here illegally, nearly 309,000 of them have applied and 53,273 have received deferrals, according to figures the ...www.nytimes.com
Young immigrant, newly fearless, ponders future
Along with Velez, she is a member of the New York State Youth Leadership Council, a nonprofit, youth-led organization that fights for immigrant rights. Her funny, pointed videos about the perils of navigating a life that is "undocumented and unafraid ...www.bradenton.com
U.S. immigration reform key to repairing rift between GOP, Hispanic voters ...
Graham, who proposed a four-point immigration plan together with Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer of New York in 2010, said he will again work to get an agreement this year.newyork.newsday.com
New York News | NYC Breaking NewsIll. officials push for illegal immigrant ...
New York News | NYC Breaking NewsIll. officials push for illegal immigrant licenses. Member Center: Create Account|; Log In; Manage Account|; Log Out.www.myfoxny.com
"Exposure" to US may raise immigrants' obesity risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study finds that the longer immigrants from Mexico, and their U.S.-born offspring, spend in the United States, the greater their odds of becoming obese.www.reuters.com
'The Golden Land,' at Baruch Performing Arts Center
"The Golden Land" has a lot of historical plot to condense as it chugs through a two-hour rendition of the entire New York Jewish immigrant experience, from the 1880s to the 1940s. In montages and medleys, partly in Yiddish and partly in English, we ...theater.nytimes.com
Innovative Immigrants
In 1808 Alexander Brown, from Ireland, founded the nation's first investment bank, and his immigrant sons set up Brown Brothers.www.nytimes.com
Immigrant Jobs Keep New York City Running During Sandy
Immigrants make up half of all small business owners in New York City, according to a 2011 report by the Fiscal Policy Institute, and fields like taxi and limousine services, with 90 percent immigrant ownership, will be crucial during the hurricane ...abcnews.go.com
Technology Industry Puts Immigration Reform As Top Hope For Obama's ...
"He hasn't done as much on tech as we would like but he's clearly leaning toward many of our policy goals," said Andrew Rasiej, chairman of NY Tech Meetup, which hosts monthly gatherings for tech entrepreneurs. Besides immigration, those goals include ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Immigrant job creator faces deportation
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It doesn't matter that Asaf Darash started a U.S. company and created 15 jobs here. Federal immigration officials might kick him out anyway. It's not that he did anything wrong. Rather, he's tangled in a web of immigration ...money.cnn.com
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