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Immigrant entrepreneurs continue to shape our economy and play a critical role in the success and innovation of major corporations. In 2024, this trend is clearer than ever, with 46% of Fortune 500 companies being founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants. |
Earlier this summer, a state judge issued a strong rebuke to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to shut down the faith-based Annunciation House, labeling his actions as “outrageous and intolerable.” |
This past week, the Council, alongside the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), had the privilege to present the report the organizations co-authored on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) deployment during protests demanding racial justice after the murder of George Floyd at the Sixth World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Social Inequality. |
Several false claims about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were made during the presidential debate on Tuesday.
At the American Immigration Council, we bring you the facts. And those facts show that immigrants are an integral part of Ohio’s communities and make extensive contributions that benefit all residents of the state.
For example, the foreign-born population in Ohio accounts for 8% of entrepreneurs, 11.7% of STEM workers, and 5% of nurses in the state.
This fact sheet examines immigrants’ contributions in Ohio as neighbors, business owners, taxpayers, and workers.
Read more: Immigrants in Ohio |
A record 100 million people around the globe were forced to flee their homes in 2022, up from 65 million in 2015. Of those displaced that year, 32.5 million were refugees who had to leave their country in fear of persecution due to their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or group membership.
While the United States set its refugee admissions target at 125,000 for 2023, today’s global crises are increasing the demand upon that number.
In this report, we break down how refugees are beneficial to the United States and how they are uniquely positioned to aid the U.S. during demographic changes.
Read more: Starting Anew |
“Border policy focuses on individuals who have already made the decision to leave home and have made it to the U.S.-Mexico border and aims to either prevent them or to quickly process them for humanitarian relief or deportation once they cross. By contrast, ‘root causes’ policy focuses on individuals who have not left their homes yet, and aims to convince them to stay in their home countries either through economic development … or through reduction of violence and persecution that forces people to seek protection elsewhere.”
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