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Immigration

Personal perspectives on immigration today.

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Michelle Ye Hee Lee in The Washington Post

Nov 7, 2016

Don’t take your right to vote for granted. Immigrants like me wait years to have the chance.

You may not like Donald Trump or…

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Carnegie Corporation in Carnegie Reporter

Nov 3, 2016

Making America

We are all immigrants — wave after wave over several hundred years.

by General Colin Powell

Many years ago, after I had become a four-star general and, then, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Times of London wrote an article observing that if my parents had sailed to England rather than New York, “the most they could have dreamed of…

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Stephanie Goodell in Republican Women for Progress

Oct 28, 2016

Are you Irish?

Why comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to full and equal citizenship will…

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Lyman Stone in In a State of Migration

Oct 20, 2016

Immigration Is Rising…Maybe?

Different Figures Across Different Sources

We’re getting late enough in 2016 that we can venture early guesses at what total 2015 immigration looked like. Now, we don’t quite have all the data we need, but we’ve got enough to…

An immigrant’s first vote

Casting a vote in America’s referendum on decency.

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Ryan Huber in Arc Digital

Oct 6, 2016

The Antimigrants

Many Trump voters have rejected their own heritage of mobility

My Co-Founder, the Skittle

I am the co-founder of a 38-person New York City software company called Postlight. The other co-founder, Rich Ziade, was born in Lebanon. In the mid-1970s, when Rich was four years old and when Lebanon’s bloody civil war was expanding, his grandfather put the entire Ziade family on a…

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