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Kentucky can strengthen economy and communities with three inclusive policies for immigrants

Times-Tribune 23 Aug 2019

Kentucky can take three key steps to better integrate immigrants, including people who are undocumented, into the mainstream economy and foster community well-being, according to a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ... and for states and local communities....

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‘Lift As I Climb’ offers bold message

The Philadelphia Tribune 23 Aug 2019

She recently added the title of Author to her credentials when she penned “Lift As I Climb ~ An Immigrant Girl’s Journey Through Corporate America.” This groundbreaking biography details one immigrant woman’s meteoric rise to the top of the business community through championing the importance of diversity and inclusion....

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Hispanic journalist group returns Fox News conference money

Scottsbluff StarHerald 23 Aug 2019

Critics say President Donald Trump and his hardline allies in conservative media have helped fuel a hostile environment against immigrants and Latinos ... "The latest 'regret' by Fox News is one of many where the immigrant community and by association, all Hispanics and Latinos, have been demonized by voices with high visibility," Balta said....

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Ethnic media aim to help maintain boost in voting by new Canadians

Canada Dot Com 23 Aug 2019

The community Alshaer’s paper serves is growing — more immigrants are arriving in Canada from Africa, Asia and the Middle East than ever before, surpassing Europe that was once the dominant source ... Alshaer, a Palestinian immigrant who came to Canada 20 years ago, is ......

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Jewish groups speak out against Trump policies

The Paducah Sun 23 Aug 2019

While Jewish groups have long supported immigrant rights, many began working together more intensely in recent weeks after reports of squalid conditions at immigration centers ... "Many of us have had a story of immigrating when we weren't welcome," said Carin Mrotz, executive director of Jewish Community Action in Minnesota....

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Jewish groups speaking out against Trump immigration policy

The Daily Journal 23 Aug 2019

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Resource shift means delays for asylum seekers

The Brunswick Times Record 23 Aug 2019

However, immigrants’ rights groups here say the decision could have a dramatic impact on existing asylum cases, adding further instability to a population that has endured significant hardship and possibly preventing some from getting work ... Citizenship and Immigration Services....

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In the news today, Aug. 23

Canada Dot Com 23 Aug 2019

QUEBEC MAKES BIG CUTS TO ECONOMIC IMMIGRANTS IN 2019 ... The community Alshaer’s paper serves is growing — more immigrants are arriving in Canada from Africa, Asia and the Middle East than ever before, surpassing Europe that was once the dominant source....

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Pillars of Fame and Rising Star honorees

News & Record 23 Aug 2019

Morgan Communities from 1993-2004 ... Mahmoud has been active in Theatre Club, World Relief Organization and the Al-Aqsa Community Clinic and Burlington Masjid where she has involved herself in the community by organizing shelves, cleaning and transporting items to new immigrants....

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Dakota Datebook:

Dunn County Herald 23 Aug 2019

Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic Explorer written by Merry Helm August 26, 2019 — A legendary Arctic explorer died on this date in 1962. He was Vilhjalmur Stefansson, born in 1879 to Icelandic immigrants in Manitoba. When he was two, the family moved to the Icelandic community of Mountain, in northeastern North Dakota, where Vilhjalmur remainder .......

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Beware of the Gun-Lover-in-Chief

CounterPunch 23 Aug 2019

Marielena Hincapie, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, called the new policy “a cruel step toward weaponizing programs that are intended to help people by making them, instead, a means of separating families and sending immigrants and communities of color one message....

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Despite their small numbers, Iowa’s Jews play outsize role in state’s prized presidential caucus

Cleveland Jewish News 23 Aug 2019

The Jewish community in Iowa—approximately 5,450, or less than 1 percent of the state’s population, with most of them in Des Moines—has been anything but absent from the action (there are even campaign kipahs at the state fair) ... “I don’t think that’s any different with the Jewish community in Iowa.”....

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America's racial injustice didn't start with Trump

Lockport Union-Sun 23 Aug 2019

There's a lot of fear in the Latino community right now of being targeted by someone with a grudge against immigrants ... Stop to consider that — though the tenor of attitudes toward immigrants has gotten more hostile under Trump — decades of underinvestment in Hispanic students have ......