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Today's guest blogger is Ilana Alazzeh, who was born in San Francisco to an Israeli mother and Palestinian father. She currently attends Smith College in Massachusetts, where she stays active in community service and interfaith work.
An instructor and I were talking after class earlier this...
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Why has the JOBS Act, which President Barack Obama signed today, been able to cut through Washington’s gridlock? Perhaps because, every politician sees that it might work when trillions in government spending have failed.
Whereas previous policies to foster entrepreneurship have sough...
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DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas suburb that has tried to ban housing rents by illegal immigrants will continue its appeals court fight for the ban, an attorney for the city said Thursday.
A federal judge in Dallas had blocked Farmers Branch from implementing a city ordinance barring illegal immigran...
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Immigrants taken to the US by their parents as young children grow up as Americans - but on paper they remain foreigners. This means they can be deported if they commit a crime, and condemned to a life of permanent exile.
Sam's first memory is riding a sledge in the snow on the way to p...
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Immigrants are experiencing a faster rate of job growth than native-born Americans in the economic recovery, data show.
"It seems that the rate of unemployment for immigrants is slightly lower than for the native group," said Jeanne Batalova, a policy analyst with the Washington, D.C.-based Migra...
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Mohamed Bayomi, 49, owns a cafe in Astoria, Queens. He moved to New York in 1989 in search of a better life, and managed a sandwich shop for 20 years before opening Bagel Nosh in November of 2010.
Courtney: Why did you move to New York?
Mohamed: “I was working in Egypt...
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