5 articles by Bryce W. Ashby :
Many of the heroes who are attending to the sick and dying in our hospitals are immigrants: 25% of physicians in the United States are foreign-born, and 1.5 million immigrants are employed as doctors, nurses and pharmacists.
Cutting poverty and increasing the financial security of all Americans ought to be a political objective, if not obsession.
In Tennessee, more than 70,000 citizen children live with an undocumented family member. If a large-scale immigration raid occurred in our neighborhoods, it would have ramifications among the nearly 14,000 Latino/Latina children attending Shelby County Schools.
In Memphis, new immigrants make up just over 5 percent of the metro population, but account for 9 percent of the area's business owners.
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