Blog Post, Prof. Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.. I don’t like politics. But it’s hard to avoid when you study immigration. No topic has been more salient in the political news lately. Not just in the US, but everywhere. I’m not here to tell you how to vote. But I’d like to […]
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The Coalition has solicited input on immigration policy questions from a number of specialists in particular areas. Here is a sampling of their views.
Data Snapshot: Immigrant Workers in the New Jersey Economy
Blog Post, Ramya Devan, Professor of Economics, Stockton University, and Madison Giusti, Stockton Student Majoring in Economics… Contrary to the negative perceptions about an immigrant crisis and immigrants being an economic burden, actual labor market trends suggest otherwise. Rather than a drain on the economy, an uptick in immigration presents an opportunity to alleviate nationwide […]
Border Chaos and the Failure of Congress to Enact Long-Overdue Immigration Reform
Blog Post, Nicholas V. Montalto, Chair, Steering Committee, NJ Business Immigration Coalition… Any effort to reform the legal immigration system seems stalled or blocked pending resolution of the southern border problem. What some people on the left don’t seem to appreciate is that there are large numbers of people who are prepared to exploit our […]
How Canada is taking advantage of the U.S. dysfunctional immigration system
Guest blog post: James Barrood, Founder & CEO of Innovation+….I was recently in Montreal and caught up with an old friend. She moved back from France during the pandemic and works in the innovation space in the health care sector. I complained to her about how Canada was taking advantage of our immigration bureaucracy and […]
How Do We Continue to Attract Entrepreneurial Immigrants?
Guest blog post: James Barrood, Founder & CEO of Innovation+…. It’s amazing how often immigrants are at the heart of the stories that represent America at its best: at its most hard-working, creative, entrepreneurial and hopeful. A month after the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens, I still can’t get over the passion and skill […]
Reopening Doors to International Students and Scholars
Guest Blog Post, Elizabeth A. Gill, Director of International Employment and Immigration, Montclair State University…. International students and scholars are undeniably vital to the cultural and economic life of the United States. The Institute of International Education found that the United States hosted 914,095 international students and 85,538 scholars in the 2020-2021 academic year. In […]
The U.S. Doesn’t Have a Labor Shortage, It Has an Immigration Shortfall
Guest Blog Post, Manu Smadja, CEO of MPOWER Financing…. This past June, the U.S. reached a tipping point: the number of open jobs surpassed the number of people looking for work. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover report, there were 10.1 million job openings, the highest level since record-keeping began in […]