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The Institute for Immigration Research's Second Annual New American Voices Award was presented to Melissa Rivero, author of The Affairs of the Falcóns.

There is global competition for highly skilled workers, and countries have shaped their immigration systems to attract the best and brightest. How have other countries shaped their immigration systems? Our panel of experts will discuss the international search for the world's most skilled workers. Speakers include Julia Gelatt of the Migration Policy Institute, David Bier of the Cato Institute, and Justin Gest of George Mason's Schar School of Policy and Government.

October 10th, Center for Arts, George Mason University, 7-8:30 pm. The Second Annual New American Voices Award will be presented by IIR and Fall for the Book. Celebrate immigrant authors!

The news is filled with accounts of women and children from Central America arriving at the U.S. border and seeking asylum. While we are learning a great deal about their struggles once they arrive at the southern border, far less is known about their journey from Central America to the United States. Government statistics show that many women are migrating with their children, and the number of families apprehended at the border has increased in recent years. Many of these women rely on human smugglers to transport them and their children across Mexico to the U.S. border. This report reveals the reality of human smuggling from the perspective of migrant women from Central America. Their testimony and experiences can teach us about the trauma they face during migration and how it continues to impact them when they arrive in the United States.

The Bonner Leader program affords college students an opportunity to use their energy, talents, and leadership skills to engage in community service while providing developmental and financial support.

With its 4-3 victory, the American League continues its recent dominance of the All Star Game, but despite the greater number of foreign born players on the National League roster, it was actually the American League team that played the greatest number of immigrant All-Stars, nine to the National League’s eight.

With this year’s MLB All Star game coming on July 9th, die-hard fans, inquiring minds and hopeful gamblers want to know who will win: the National League or the American League? Our answer? The team that plays the greatest percentage of foreign-born players.

World Refugee Day is June 20th. Here are some quick facts about refugee admissions in the United States this year. The refugee ceiling is set at 30,000 for Fiscal Year 2019. Thus far into the fiscal year, the US has admitted 18,051 refugees, or 60 percent of the total allowable. It is likely that the US will not admit all 30,000 refugees this year.

The Immigrant Stories webpage now includes a new fact sheet and analysis of immigrants from the Caribbean living in the Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD metro areas. We also have a new inspirational interview with a Cuban immigrant.