The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is an almost forgotten piece of US legislation but it forms the basis of the US ambivalence towards immigration. It excluded the Chinese but later on also excluded Filipinos and Asian immigrants altogether. With President Trump’s increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric, will history repeat itself?
Filipina nurses working as caregivers and just earning minimum wage? It’s true. Underutilized immigrant workers impose significant costs on immigrant families, government, and the broader U.S. economy. Estimates of this skill under-utilization, also known as brain waste runs to the billions of dollars in forgone earnings and resulting unrealized tax payments for federal, state, and local governments.
Dale Asis was moved by emotion after hearing US President Obama spoke about immigration with compassion
Last April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer recently signed into law the most severe immigration policy in the US […]
The Migration Policy Institute , a nonpartisan political think tank in Washington DC, recently released a revealing report on Filipino […]
