A new non-partisan 2016 study on entrepreneurship supports the belief that America benefits from robust immigration. The study, from the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-partisan think tank based in Arlington, Va., was reported in the Wall Street Journal on March 17. It shows that immigrants started more than half of the current crop…
A study by the Pew Research Center has found that more than one million Mexicans and their families, including American-born children, let the U.S. for Mexico between 2009-2014. During the same five years, 870,000 Mexicans came to the U.S. The desire to reunite families was the main reason for the out-migration. Other factors appeared to…
The terrible story of a young Somalian man who was blinded by insurgents in his country, and who now is trying to support himself and his two younger sisters, was the topic of an article in the Littleton Independent on Dec. 17, 2015. The horror of the story what happened to him in Somalia –…
By Susan M. Thornton, Chair The City of Aurora is moving forward to welcome and integrate people from around the world. Nearly one in five people in the city of approximately 340,000 was born in another country. A new Aurora Welcome Center has been developed in partnership with the city’s new Office of International and…
Politicians who are blaming Mexico for sending immigrants to the U.S. might want to notice the latest trend: immigration from Asia. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, immigrants from China and India have overtaken immigrants from Mexico in the numbers coming to the U.S. The shift has been building for more than a decade, the…
We asked some of our grantees what small amounts of assistance from LI3 meant to them. Here are what some of them had to say: I want to thank LI3 who helped my family to settle in Littleton. Coming to a new country is like suddenly being blind. How do we know what to do? …
As Congress Stalls on Immigration Reform, Local Communities are Reaching Out to Welcome Immigrants An online New York Times article highlights communities that are reaching out to welcome immigrants, much as the City of Littleton has been doing for the past 10 or more years. The article is available at http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/immigrants-welcome-here/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
By Peter Jones – October 2, 2013 The South Metro Denver Chamber is among the business groups that joined a call last week for Colorado’s congressional delegation – particularly Republicans – to support comprehensive immigration legislation. Business leaders representing such organizations as Colorado Concern, the Colorado Competitive Council, Colorado Forum and the Colorado Bioscience Association…
An article from Denver Post’s YouHub by Erin McCann: http://yourhub.denverpost.com/southmetro/sen-bennet-visits-littleton-immigrant-resource-center/N3SJSDoV2rcRrIKtvvzrDL-ugc?hl “So whats the deal with this immigration bill? That was one question of many that U.S. Senator Michael Bennet fielded from immigrants pursuing American citizenship during a visit to the Littleton Immigrant Resource Center on Tuesday morning. The immigrants, who hailed from places as far…
An article from the Littleton Independent written by Jennifer Smith http://www.ourcoloradonews.com/littleton/news/sen-bennet-tours-immigrant-center-in-littleton/article_15916690-feed-11e2-a0ec-0019bb2963f4.html U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colorado, stopped by Littleton’s Bemis Public Library on Aug. 6. Bennet and the so-called “Gang of Eight” used the Littleton Immigrant Resource Center, housed in the library, as a model for part of the immigration-reform bill that passed the…