When Jan Koum and his mother immigrated to San Francisco from their native Ukraine in the mid 1990s to escape a growing wave of anti-Semitism, they strove to build a life for themselves in an unfamiliar country. Koum struggled to fit in among his high...
Immigration is a frequent headline topic. It is presented as a problem to be fixed - whether the broken bureaucracy on one side or a dilution of cultural identity on the other. Discussions often are heated and viewpoints divisive. These are arguments dating back to...
In 1965, the U.S. Congress passed a landmark law known as the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The law served as an overhaul to existing immigration policy that had been in place since the 1920s, much of which relied on xenophobic concepts such as national...
The year is 1994. There is no World Series because major league baseball players are on strike. O.J. Simpson is arrested for murder. Forrest Gump delights movie audiences. And the Murthy Law Firm opens its doors for business and launches murthy.com.For a knowledge-based entity such...
In January 2013, a withered mummy hand arrived at Los Angeles International Airport. It looked as though it would fit right in on the set of a horror movie, and its importer tried to pass it off as a movie prop worth only $66. But...
With immigration remaining a hot button issue in today's political climate, many immigrants living and working in the United States have found themselves relegated to the realm of oversimplified generalizations. Too often, the personal stories and identities of the millions of immigrants who have made...
When the annual recipients of the prestigious Nobel prizes were announced earlier this month, there was one notable similarity between nearly all of the American honorees: six-out-of-the-seven of them are first-generation immigrants to the United States. (The seventh honoree is singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan, who was...
As the nation prepares for the presidential election in a few weeks, a historically contentious campaign cycle is about to come to a close. For months, Americans have watched both of the main party presidential candidates trade insults and question each other's integrity, while at...
While numerous studies have been conducted that verify the overall positive economic impact that immigrants have on the economy, more than 46 percent of Americans still harbor doubts as to how immigrants can improve their community. Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, those...
Despite overwhelming evidence that immigrants create jobs, increase wages, and pay billions in taxes annually, the fallacy that immigration has a detrimental effect on the U.S. economy has persisted for generations. As we head into the home stretch of this election season, the topic of...
