By age 13, Gustavo Velasco had saved enough money — earning 10 pesos every day he worked with his father selling chickens at a market — to buy himself and his mother one-way plane tickets from Mexico to Reno.
Upon arrival, he jumped straight back into work mode. He manned the drive-thru window for a Jack in the Box as soon as he was old enough, and it helped him practice English and develop communication skills with customers and coworkers.
“Most people think that’s shameful, but I was loving it,”
“I wanted to create a restaurant that really celebrated and served fantastic and delicious food from some of the largest immigrant groups in the United States but also really celebrated immigration — and did so in a way that includes advocacy for immigrants and their needs,” Immigrant Food co-founder Peter Schechter said.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in consultation with the Department of State (DOS), has announced the lists of countries whose nationals are eligible to participate in the H-2A and H-2B visa programs in the next year.
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Luis Moro is an immigrant from Cuba, Founder of Transparent Technologies, strategic marketing, sales, and training company. He is also an actor, a writer, and a producer in Hollywood.
Immigrants have long enlisted in all branches of the U.S. military, beginning with the Revolutionary War. The foreign born represented half of all military recruits by the 1840s and 20 percent of the 1.5 million service members in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Feeling ‘Unseen and Unheard’, Asian immigrants have for years shared experiences of invisibility. Most recently the pandemic which was politicized by former President Trump as coming from Asia and China, in particular, placed many South East Asians in the bull’s eye of racists.
Dr. Ghaly confirmed that the FDA had given clearance to vaccinate kids between the ages of 5-11 which was great news for California families. Emphasizing the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine he shared that this approval came after months and months of availability of data collected to make sure that the dose is right for this group. It is a lower dose and safe enough for the 9% of Californians that make up this group.
Most immigrants in the US have a story to tell. While some come seeking financial rewards, political asylum, or just desire to enjoy the freedoms offered by the American dream, for others domestic violence is a life-threatening matter. For many female victims of domestic violence in the world, migration constitutes a primary survival strategy but during the last few years, the likelihood of finding protection in the US was lower than ever. Over the summer, Attorney General Merrick Garland reversed a decision taken by the previous administration that closed the door to many women asylum seekers on domestic violence grounds.