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Your weekly summary from the Council
LATEST ANALYSIS
FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW
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Nearly 10 years ago, President Obama authorized the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative to provide temporary relief from deportation and work authorization to certain young undocumented immigrants.
This new fact sheet from the American Immigration Council provides an overview of DACA and prior attempts to dismantle the initiative, as well as its current status.
Read more: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA): An Overview
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Newly released government emails turned over to lawyers—who are litigating monetary compensation for the pain and suffering separated families endured—show that federal officials knew early on that migrant families were being reunited quickly and worked to prevent that from happening.
Documents uncovered earlier by the American Immigration Council demonstrate how ill-organized, harmful, and cruel the Trump administration’s efforts were in carrying out its policy of family separation at the border, even after court orders required families be reunified. The Council is also among the groups fighting in court to bring justice to these families.
Read more: Government Documents on Family Separation: Tracking the Policy’s Evolution, Implementation, and Harm
ACROSS THE NATION
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The American Immigration Council released a report that found that 43.8%, or 219 companies, in this year’s Fortune 500 list were founded by immigrants or their children. The report draws from Fortune Magazine’s annual ranking of the United States’ 500 largest corporations, ranked by revenue, to analyze the share of companies that were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants and these firms’ contributions to the U.S. and global economy.
Read more: New American Fortune 500 in 2022: The Largest American Companies and Their Immigrant Roots
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Immigrant entrepreneurs play an indispensable role in driving our economy and in creating job growth. While immigrants represent only 13.6% of the U.S. population, it’s estimated that a quarter of America’s entrepreneurs are immigrants. This increased propensity for business creation among immigrants is crucial for the U.S economy, as research shows that nearly all net job growth in the United States is attributed to new firms and startup.”
– Andrew Lim, research director at the American Immigration Council
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