Illegal migration into the United States is at the lowest level on record, according to a 2017 report from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Despite this fact, Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria says President Trump is manufacturing a border control crisis to stoke fears within his base ahead of the...
District 7 Candidates Press for Advantage at Voter Forum
Comparatively, they are left, right and center. The three candidates for Fresno City Council District 7 faced off in a forum Tuesday (May 1) night at the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno. Veva Islas offered the most politically liberal approach to addressing the city's issues. Brian Whelan took more conservative...
What California County Is Big & Beautiful Yet Small & Ugly?
Why does a place as big and beautiful as Orange County behave in ways so small and ugly? In recent weeks, county supervisors first voted to oppose state sanctuary laws, thus aligning themselves with President Trump, who has targeted California in a campaign of lies and mass deportation, and against...
Editorial: Why Is Valley GOP Mum About ICE Audits Targeting Growers?
The top officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement clearly are following President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant agenda while turning a deaf ear to those worried about Valley agriculture and our neighbors who toil in the fields. Last week, The Fresno Bee reported that Rep. Jim Costa (D-Fresno) sent a letter to ICE...
Who Are the High School Science Stars? Immigrant Children.
A study from the National Foundation for American Policy indicates that 83% (33 of 40) of the finalists of the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search were the children of immigrants. The competition organized each year by the Society for Science & the Public is the top science competition for U.S. high...
Immigrants Do Not Take Jobs. Truth is, They Create Jobs.
America cannot afford to turn its back on immigrants. Immigrant makers, doers, and dreamers create American jobs; innovators and laborers further U.S. competitiveness. The challenge for the United States, therefore, is to change the national discussion from “taking jobs” to “making jobs.” When that happens, the need for immigrants becomes...
Debunking Trump's Myths About Chain Migration & Low-Skilled Immigrants
President Donald Trump has embraced the rhetoric of “chain migration” to spread the message that the United States is legally letting in too many of the wrong kind of immigrant. That term, however, distorts the facts. As a scholar on U.S. immigration law and policy, I’d like to correct and...
Debunking Trump's Myths About Chain Migration & Low-Skilled Immigrants
President Donald Trump has embraced the rhetoric of “chain migration” to spread the message that the United States is legally letting in too many of the wrong kind of immigrant. That term, however, distorts the facts. As a scholar on U.S. immigration law and policy, I’d like to correct and...
Immigrants Built Fresno. And We're Better for It
Immigrants helped build this city. That's something we should never forget. The ingenuity, enterprise, capital investment and back-breaking labor of immigrants are splashed all over Fresno. You can see their vines, their buildings and their legacies — east to west and north to south. It's a tradition that continues to...
Immigrants Built Fresno. And We're Better for It
Immigrants helped build this city. That's something we should never forget. The ingenuity, enterprise, capital investment and back-breaking labor of immigrants are splashed all over Fresno. You can see their vines, their buildings and their legacies — east to west and north to south. It's a tradition that continues to...