There are many reasons people choose or are forced to leave their home countries, including lack of resources, food insecurity, frequent natural disasters caused by climate change, or violence like war and gang violence. They come to the United States with hopes to start a new life with better jobs, opportunities and more safety.
By Stella Tomasello, age 10 The House of Representatives passed the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act in April by a vote of 218 to 208. The aim was to limit the power the president could exercise over immigration on the basis of religion. The travel ban of 2017 had people of different …
By Neena Maya Sapkota, age 11 President Trump is seeking to exclude undocumented immigrants in the 2020 census. The census has been recorded every 10 years since 1790 and counts everyone living in the United States and its five territories. Providing important population data, the census helps policymakers determine the amount of services and funding …
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By Amedeo Max Bettauer, age 10 The American humorist Josh Billings once said, “Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.” Census data from 2017 shows that for 27 million Americans and 615,000 New Yorkers, that concept is hauntingly true. The growing epidemic of uninsurance, which …
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The U.S. Senate proposes a plan for more fences and troops at the Mexican border and to make education and skills more important than family ties in deciding which immigrants are allowed to have legal immigrant status.
On April 9, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) won a huge victory when McDonald’s agreed to the demands of the tomato pickers.
There is a place in Texas where over 200 children are being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) because they do not have proper documents to be in the United States.
300 million people now live in the U.S., but it was only in 1915 when the counter ticked to 100 million. For many years the percentage of people who were immigrants hovered in the single digits. Today, at the
300 million mark, the immigration population is at about 12 percent, close to where it was back in 1915.
An immigrants’ rights rally in New York City on October 21 was a response to Congress’ failure to propose and pass a fair and humane bill for immigrants. Marchers demanded that legal status be given to all undocumented immigrants and that the deportation and detention of immigrants be ended.
As leaders in Congress work to pass immigration reforms into law including more fences and armed guards at the U.S.-Mexico border, a 2nd-grader speaks out on behalf of his mother, a Mexican immigrant who has been ordered to go back to Mexico.
