Easing Migration Helps All Countries
Studies show that making migration easier actually provides an economic boost to both countries – those where the immigrants come from, and those where they emigrate to.In fact, as the country and world face growing economic risks, relaxing immigration restrictions may be the single best way to ensure economic prosperity. Economics have long supported the reduction of barriers to international flows of trade and capital. Increasing evidence points to similar logic in supporting reduced barriers to migration.
The Clearest Path to Global Prosperity: Looser migration restrictions would benefit both rich and poor countries.
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Immigration judges are using data, algorithms, and automated risk assessment tools to help them determine a particular immigrant’s likelihood of posing a danger to the community or becoming a flight risk. On the one hand, such tools can help judges make better, less biased decisions, and keep people out of detention when it’s not necessary. After all, the U.S. already incarcerates about 400,000 non-citizens per year.
The House Judiciary Committee voted 24-12 to approve the creation of an independent immigration court. This bill has been advocated for year by National Immigration Judges Association, lawyers, and its three democratic representatives sponsoring the bill. It will now move to a vote by the entire House.
As the world’s population growth requires more food production, problems with weather, fuel costs, labor shortages, and increasing cost of supplies threatens to limit agricultural productivity and increase prices. What to do? Some say robotics and artificial intelligence.
$2 trillion of the global economy is directly or indirectly dependent upon our oceans. In addition to more obvious industries like shipping and fishing, other like pharmaceuticals, research, energy, tourism, and more also depend on the health of our oceans.
The COVID pandemic has resulted in a decrease in immigrants from virtually every part of the world, with the total down by about 30%. The nation with the highest share of our immigrants was Mexico, with about 14% of the total.
“Mixed migration” refers to migrants from one country entering another who typically have more than one reason for migrating. These reasons can be that they are refugees fearing for their safety in their home country, economic opportunity, family reunification, and more.
Climate change is real, supported by science, and ads which contradict that will no longer be permitted on Twitter. This new policy is similar to one already implemented by Google.
Minnesota is one state in which clean energy industries lead the energy transition in 2021, according to the recently released 2022 Minnesota Energy Factsheet.
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently issued a new, alarming report on climate change, but also was hopeful that innovation can help alleviate the crisis.
Half a million foreign nationals have had their U.S. immigration petitions approved, but are still awaiting their visas to come to this country.
Swedish researchers have a system that stores solar energy for up to 18 years. This stored energy can be used, among other things, to recharge our electronic devices such as cell phones and tablets. Ultimately, this could mean that our electronics could charge themselves, without ever needing to be plugged in or charged externally. It also means that solar energy can be harnessed when needed, not just during daylights hours and sunny weather.
The population of the United States is growing slower now than at any other time in history.
President Biden recently submitted his 2023 budget request to Congress, Overall, it signals more support for immigrants.
On March 31, 2008, then Senator Barak Obama proposed Cesar Chavez Day be designated a national holiday every March 31 to commemorate his birthday. It became official in 2014 when President Obama proclaimed March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day.
Migrants taken into custody at the southern border will be offered COVID vaccines, according to the Department of Homeland Security. At first, the department will be able to vaccinate 2,700 migrants per day, increasing to 6,000 by the end of May.
Of the 3 million Ukrainian refugees fleeing its war with Russia, and counting, fewer than 700 have been admitted to the United States – not only during the war, but including the 4 months preceding the war as well, while Russian forces were amassing on Ukraine’s borders. This is despite the $4 billion allocated by Congress in aid to Ukraine, $1.4 billion of which was specifically earmarked to help refugees. It is also despite President Biden’s commitment to help resettle Ukrainian refugees in the U.S.
A recent federal court decision in Illinois greatly restricts the ability of ICE to conduct warrantless vehicle stops and arrests. Furthermore, it requires ICE to release anyone from detention if their arrest violates the new terms. The ruling also requires ICE to retrain its officers.
April 9, 2022
Honor the life and legacy of our esteemed founder, Cesar Chavez at the Cesar Chavez Legacy Breakfast.
During the last two years that COVID has plagued the world, the CDC has implemented Title 42, which has resulted in over 200,000 parents and children, some of them unaccompanied, at the Southern border.
President Biden recently nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson the Supreme Court. She would be the first Black woman ever to have a seat on the high court. Given Judge Jackson’s 10 years on the federal bench, her record holds lots of clues as to how she would be likely to vote on immigration issues that would come before her were she to be confirmed a Supreme Court justice.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding that its detainees, particularly those made more vulnerable by medical conditions, be given COVID-19 vaccine boosters.
A new documentary called "Rejecting the Dreamer Narrative," premiered two days ago. It highlights how the way many Americans perceive “Dreamers” has hurt the perception they have of other immigrants.
President Joe Biden’s State Of The Union Speech received a bipartisan standing ovation when he mentioned the urgent need for reform to our nation’s immigration laws. He urged for a pathway to citizenship for farmworkers, Dreamers, and others, in part to ease the country’s labor shortage – but also because it is the right thing to do.
A recent study by University of Southern California concluded that our immigration system is biased in favor of white immigration applicants, whose applications are approved at a significantly higher rate than those of Hispanic, Black, and Muslim immigrants. Also, women are approved more often than men.
The American Bar Association (ABA) has passed a resolution calling on the U.S. government to reduce and eliminate racism and xenophobia in our nation’s immigration laws and their enforcement. Existing laws permit so-called “aliens” to be “subject to discrimination that never could be lawful with respect to U.S. citizens, including detention and removal from the country.”
The Department of Homeland Security is testing robot dogs as a way to monitor the harsh terrain along the border between Mexico and the United States. These “dogs” are meant to accompany Border Patrol agents, not replace them. There is currently no timeline for the deployment of these robot dogs.
Ranjit Baxi, founder and head of the Global Recycling Foundation, has implored national governments all over the world to acknowledge that recycling is a key measure in preserving the future of our planet. He said in London, “Recycling has a major impact on preserving the environment, saving energy, and reducing pollution, so why does it not receive the recognition it deserves?”
It is easy to criticize immigration law and how it’s enforced. For example, few would defend the practice of separating immigrant families at the border, especially when young children are concerned. But it is far more difficult to say would should be done, ethically, morally, and legally.
In May, the LAFD will take delivery of one of the world’s first all-electric fire engines. It will be the first in the US. Rancho Cucamonga, about an hour east of L.A., is scheduled to receive one in late 2023.
Congress has passed the Farm Workforce Modernization Act with several measures to protect immigrant farm workers. In particular, the bill alters the H-2A temporary worker program to make it easier for alien farm workers and their families to stay in the U.S.
FIELD’s founder Cesar Chavez dedicated his life to the same non-violent approach to civil disobedience pioneered by Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. He strove to improve pay, living conditions, and working conditions for migrant farm workers, particularly in California. He created the National Farm Workers Association (which became the United Farm Workers of America) in California.
FIELD is actively involved in preventing wildfires throughout California. You can help to. Here are several easy things you can do:
China, host to the Winter Olympics being staged now, has long been a very closed society, only permitting those with Chinese blood to become citizens. Recently, though, China has realized the value of letting non-Chinese with particular skills – in science, technology, education, medicine, economics… and sports – become permanent residents. Furthermore, permanent residents can now compete for China’s Olympic team.
Most of America’s farm workers are undocumented immigrants. For decades, they have lived in fear of deportation, particularly if they are stopped for some minor reason. But now, many have been given letters by their employers stating that the Department of Homeland Security deems them to be essential workers.
So you recycle. Great! But why? What are the key benefits of recycling? Here are some reasons to recycle:
If you have been watching the Winter Olympics, you've seen one of the effects of climate change: this is the first Winter Olympics to use 100% manmade snow. When you see aerial views of any venues outside of Beijing, you see not snow whatsoever on the ground other than the snow which was manufactured (using lots of water and energy) to cover the slopes and runs used for competition.
As COVID-19 has ravaged the world, a confusing array of restrictions and visa requirements has arisen for all countries, including the U.S. Fortunately, as of November, 2021, those restrictions are consistent for visitors from all countries and are easy to understand.
Health metrics and outcomes are significantly lower in minority and underserved communities. One reason for this is the discrepancy in funding and other resources dedicated to health research in these communities vs. the country as a whole. A study attempts to bridge this gap by concluding that members of these communities should actively participate in deciding on health research priorities and funding.
Immigrants to California can use ESL, getting a high school diploma, and other forms of ongoing education to qualify for and land jobs. As a result of their education, these immigrants can get better, higher-paying jobs. They can also assimilate better into their new communities and organizations.
Did you know what an impact immigrants make on US agriculture? Consider that:
2021 saw a record number of arrests at the Mexican border. In the last year, 300 executive orders were implemented to help with the influx of immigrants. The White House is proffering a proposal to provide COVID vaccinations to all immigrants. While the proposal attempts to improve public health and stem the pandemic, it also has created fears that even more migrants will arrive at our southern border in hopes of getting vaccinated.
An Australian national study found that educating and training farmers and farm workers enhances their ability and willingness to make improvements in the management of their farms. Furthermore, the relationships built in these training programs between farmers and experts, as well as between the farmers themselves, helps instill the farmers with the values and attitudes conducive to making positive changes in their farming practices.
Among the 20+ million U.S. adults that don’t speak English well, fewer than 10% enroll in ESL courses. Much of the gap can be explained by lack of sufficient funding – from federal and state governments, and elsewhere. This article identifies ways to determine which of those adults have the greatest need for ESL and will benefit the most from it. Since ESL increases lifetime earning by an average of 22%, the potential tangible and intangible benefits from ESL are enormous.
With the Beijing Olympics coming up in just 2 weeks, the U.S. has a new citizen who has an excellent chance to win gold for her new country. Kaillie Humphries has already won two Olympic bobsled golds for her former country, Canada. However, in 2019 she requested that the IOC release her from competing for Canada, due to the verbal and emotional abuse she alleges from the Canadian team coach. Therefore, for more than 2 years she has been considered stateless in the eyes of the IOC.
Of the 600 U.S. athletes at the recent Olympic Games in Tokyo, more than 5% -- 34 athletes – were born in other countries. They participated in 21 sports and won medals at an even greater rate than their U.S.-born colleagues. Perhaps most notable was Suni Lee, the first Olympian of Hmong descent, who won several gymnastics medals including the all-around gold. Nelly Korda, a U.S.-born golfer of Czech immigrants, won gold, while her sister Jessica also competed.
This article provides 20 useful techniques for helping teach ESL to students with dyslexia, while potentially helping the entire class or group of students. These strategies can help with both reading and writing.
Perhaps this confirms your long-held beliefs, but a recent study showed that GP doctors who are minorities tend to serve underserved communities. This has implications for health care reform. For example, if an underserved community needs more doctors, but there is an insufficient supply of minority doctors to meet their needs, or these minority doctors are working elsewhere, how can no-minority doctors be recruited or incented to work in these underserved areas?