How has the economy managed to prosper, adding hundreds of thousands of jobs, month after month, at a time when the Federal Reserve has aggressively raised interest rates to fight inflation — normally a recipe for a recession? Increasingly, the answer appears to be immigrants.
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Americans are more worried about legal immigrants committing crimes in the U.S. than they were a few years ago, a change driven largely by increased concern among Republicans
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International students and skilled workers can help make North Carolina a sustainability leader.
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Editor’s note: Steve S. Rao is a Council Member At Large and Former Mayor Pro Tem for the Town of Morrisville and an Opinion Writer for WRAL Tech Wire. He served on the Board of the New American Economy, now the American Immigration Council, and on the NC League of Municipalities...
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From the mountains of Nepal to the peak of being acknowledged as the U.S. Small Business Administrations’ Exporter of the Year, entrepreneur Raj Bhandari shares his remarkable story with WRAL TechWire contributing columnist Steve Rao. Immigrants get the job done, as Rao likes to say.
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I wanted to take this opportunity to address the issue of immigration fraud, and more importantly, respond to any negative perceptions which could be attributed to H1B immigrants who contribute to the continued success and growth of an innovation economy.
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The number of applications for visas used in the technology industry soared for a second straight year, raising “serious concerns” that some are manipulating the system to gain an unfair advantage, authorities said Friday.
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Tech layoffs in the Triangle are affecting skilled immigrants working on H1-B visas. And that’s a huge issue for our regional economy, Steve Rao writes.
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Everyone knows the tech industry is in crisis. But if you’re ones of the immigrants who make up 20 to 30% of workers at these companies, the situation is even more dire.
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