Applicants won't be required to submit additional documents to select the third gender option.
Haitian migrants fleeing political unrest, natural disasters, and the country's rise in unemployment have been traveling from their homeland and other Central American countries to the Texas border to seek asylum.
Unfortunately, you may find some people—from cashiers at stores to servers at restaurants to your own friends—speak to your partner with a condescending tone. They think that just because English isn’t his first language that he isn’t as intelligent as they are.
I’m a big fan of any story that tells of the true hustle to live the American dream. I especially love it when it’s told from the immigrant perspective. We all know there are many misconceptions about people who come from abroad, whether legally or illegally, to make a better life for themselves and their […]
(AJC) — Metro Atlanta continues to draw new foreign born residents despite the economic downturn, which sets it apart from many other regions around the country. Atlanta’s immigrant population grew by 42,000 people, or 6 percent, from 2007 to 2009. That steady increase was felt in many ways, both good and bad: providing low-cost labor […]
(The New York Times) — “The rebels came in one night at 2 a.m.; they started shooting and killing people,” said Michael Kallon, 55, a survivor of rebel raids in Liberia in 1986. “There were hordes of them, and I fled to Guinea.” After a stint working for the Pan-African Writers’ Association in Guinea in […]
(Crain’s) — On a recent moonlit night on Frederick Douglass Boulevard just south of 116th Street, in the shadows of a spiffy new condo building called the Livmor, the crowd for a Ramadan prayer at Aqsa mosque spilled out onto the sidewalk. Two dozen West African women in bright-colored head wraps knelt on a blue […]
(AJC) — Georgia state lawmakers said this week they are looking to Arizona for ideas as they seek to crack down on illegal immigration here. Meeting at the state Capitol on Thursday, a special committee of Republican legislators began discussions on a comprehensive immigration bill for the next session of the General Assembly, in January. […]
Leaders who opposed Bolton’s mandate, want to overturn the ruling.
(Inc) — Kevin Mann is a Briton and Thanavath Jaroenvanit a French citizen, but the two co-founders knew where their start-up, the online comic-book marketplace Graphic.ly, stood its best chance for success: the United States. For one thing, the majority of readers and publishers are here. For another, U.S. venture capitalists have proved far more interested […]