A Governor’s Call to Embrace Immigrants

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“No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country,” said South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in a video on Jan. 12. Gov. Haley’s video was made to counter the formal Republican response to President Barack Obama’s recent State of the Union address, according to news.yahoo.com.

All Americans are immigrants (except Native Americans!). So who are we to judge those who come here for the very same reasons we, or our ancestors, came?

Immigrants, Latinos Helped Drive Business Creation Last Year

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Immigrants helped boost business creation in 2014, index finds, while share of new Latino business owners also climbed.

Source: www.wsj.com

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How Local Governments Are Hacking Immigration Reform

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via How Local Governments Are Hacking Immigration Reform – Spencer Amdur – The Atlantic.

Only the federal government can grant amnesty. But cities and counties can effectively opt to stop deportations—and increasingly, they are.

SPENCER AMDUR MAY 13 2014

States and cities are taking immigration reform into their own hands. With prospects for comprehensive legislation bleak in Washington, local governments have begun making decisions about who gets deported and who doesn’t by refusing to participate in a system that has come to rely on them. After a few years of slow but steady progress, local reform is now taking off.

In the last three weeks, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Denver, and counties in Oregon, Colorado, Washington, and California have announced they will no longer help federal immigration police carry out deportations. These decisions, spurred by recent federal-court rulings, add to the growing chorus of state and local governments that have recently…

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