Tag: Immigrants: Page 17

Students

Georgia Professors Offer Course to Undocumented Students

As college students return to campus in Georgia, a new state policy has closed the doors of the five most competitive state schools to undocumented immigrants, but a group of professors has found a way to offer those students a taste of what they’ve been denied.

August 28, 2011

Home

Duke University Professor: American Religious Faith Waning

A new study says despite the prominence of religious believers in politics and culture, America has shrinking congregations, growing dissatisfaction with religious leaders and rising numbers of people who do not think about faith.

August 22, 2011

Latinx

Foreign Students Fear Indiana Immigration Law Impact

Indiana’s new immigration law is raising concerns among international students who worry they won’t be eligible for tuition waivers or fellowships that help pay for their U.S. educations.

August 14, 2011

Health

Minnesota Program for Immigrant Doctors Loses Funding

State lawmakers eliminated funding for the $150,000 program during the last-minute negotiations.

August 9, 2011

Students

Md. Lawsuit Filed To Allow In-state Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants

Maryland college students and an immigrant services group are going to court in defense of a state law that would grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants.

August 2, 2011

Students

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn Signs College Scholarship Bill

The Illinois Dream Act creates a nine-member commission to establish scholarships for immigrant children with private donations, not taxpayer money.

August 2, 2011

Asian American Pacific Islander

Ellis Island Immigration Museum to Document the ‘Peopling’ of the U.S.

The Peopling of America Center will be rolled out in two phases, with the first chronicling migration patterns before 1892 and the second documenting post-1954 migration.

August 1, 2011

Latinx

Sweeping New Immigration Laws in Georgia and Alabama Impact Migrant Labor Trends

Among findings from Dr. Cesar Escalante’s studies is that as the foreign labor supply, chiefly undocumented Latinos, has declined, 67 percent of surveyed Southern state farmers reported having difficulty finding workers.

July 24, 2011

Latinx

Births, Not New immigrants, Push U.S. Latino Growth

With immigration slowing, babies born in the U.S. rather than newly arrived Mexican immigrants are now driving most of the fast growth in the Latino population.

July 21, 2011

Home

Census: Share of Children in U.S. Hits Record Low

Children now make up less of America’s population than ever before, even with a boost from immigrant families.

July 13, 2011

Latinx

Obama Administration Officials Take High Profile at Senate Hearing on DREAM Act

A congressional hearing on Tuesday breathed new life into the decade-old and oft-thwarted effort to pass the proposed federal DREAM Act, but Democratic leaders concede there is no clear path to enactment and that one of the main obstacles is lack of Republican support.

June 28, 2011

Latinx

Pennsylvania Legislation Seeks In-state Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants

Undocumented immigrants would qualify for the less expensive in-state tuition rates at Pennsylvania universities if they meet residency requirements included in proposed legislation introduced Monday.

June 20, 2011