In 2022, four out of five immigrants from South America came from one of a handful of countries: Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, or Peru (see Table 1). Between 2010 and 2022, the Venezuelan population grew the fastest of all South American groups in the United States (263 percent),...
New York is not the first city in America to open municipal voting to non-citizens, but it is the largest. Jurisdictions in Maryland, California and Vermont have passed similar statutes. The New York Immigration Coalition hopes New York's efforts will "spark more action around the country." ...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a man during an operation Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Oceanside, Calif. Some asylum-seekers who crossed the border from Mexico are waiting 10 years just for a court date. The Border Patrol released people with notices to appear at a U.S....
But in America today, does place of birth really not matter, and can immigrants still keep their faith in an "American dream" that promised legality, opportunity and equality? To start with, let's dig into the issu...
"None of these things is long-term," said Adam Isacson, director of defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America. "Now, the new phenomenon is the arrival of Donald Trump. I think people are going to wait for the next few months to see what happens," before deciding whethe...
“We were poor because we came over on borrowed money and my father was a Ph.D. student – and students are poor. And we were different. It’s not easy standing out all the time. Coming to America took away the security of community and family that is taken for granted when in ...
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Foreign-born workers had an unemployment rate of 3.4% in 2022, compared with 3.7% for people born in the U.S., it noted. The biggest difference was among men, with about 77% of immigrant male workers over the age of 16 in the workforce, compared with 66% of those born in America,...
anymore. In fact, immigrant inflow from the U.S.` Southern neighbor has declined significantly since 2007, while more undocumented immigrants entered the U.S. from Central America, South America and Asia. Mexicans remain the largest single group among the undocumented population in the U.S., ...