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The U.S. provides employment-based green cards to 140,000 people a year, with each country limited to 7,000 visas.
Therefore, a disproportionate number of people from highly populated countries like India and China face a longer wait...
Like any immigrant experience, we have had to traverse thousands of miles just for a chance to be here (Ben Lumicao, adviser on Chicago’s Commission on Human Relations)
There are so many obstacles and struggles, and it is difficult adjusting to a new language and culture. On top of all...
The demand for migratory workers is essentially two-fold: to be ready to go to work when needed; to be gone when not needed (Presidential Commission on Migratory Labor, 1940s)
The creation of the bracero program created a labor supply which, on one hand, is ready and willing to meet the short...
Going out of your way to help your friends: Aireale Rodgers and the New American Initiative
Aireale Rodgers: I started in high school about three years ago. I'm from Chicago from the southeast side, but I went...
How does it work? Immigration attorney Amelia Wilson about US asylum laws
Excerpted interview with Amelia Wilson, attorney with Davidson & Schiller, LLC, an immigration law firm in Chicago...
One-way ticket to Quebec
A version of this story won second prize in the 2007 Daniel Pearl Award, a competition sponsored by The Wall...
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