Frank Islam In our book Renewing the American Dream published in 2010, we provided the following conceptualization of the American Dream: The American Dream is the opportunity each and every citizen has to realize one’s personal potential and to achieve success, generally measured as economic security. The fundamental elements of the dream are getting […]
Piyush Malik When you seek information, your first instinct is to open Google search on your browser, but did you know Google is among the top-three cloud providers in the world? While some may contend that with just a small market share of the overall market, Google Cloud Platform trails far behind Amazon Web services […]
The change has been incorporated in the House appropriation bill that could be passed this year Ritu Jha A bill eliminating the per-country limitation on green cards for employment-based immigrants has been included in the Department of Homeland Security’s Appropriations bill, providing cause for some celebration in the community. The bill, originally tabled as HR […]
The agency said it aims to safeguard the immigration system and ensure US workers get the most protection Ritu Jha The memo that prohibits work-authorized students to take up jobs for third-party client site was carried out in response the President’s Buy American, Hire American Executive Order, according to the US Citizenship and […]
The suit argues that students on the program were peppered with requests for information and denied permission to work offsite Ritu Jha The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has been sued for allegedly making unconstitutional changes in the “Optional Practical Training Extension for STEM Students (STEM OPT). The suit claims that the USCIS targets […]
A lawsuit filed by the public defenders said asylum-seekers at Sheridan were denied religious items and often went hungry because they were served proscribed food Ritu Jha It has been over two months since Sikh and a Hindu asylum seeker who was incarcerated at the Federal Detention Center in Sheridan, Oregon were deprived […]
Court clearance for a hearing on the matter may stoke it further Ritu Jha Civil rights organizations are happy with a New York federal court ruling permitting a hearing on the contentious idea of the Trump administration to add a question about people’s citizenship to the 2020 census. But many state attorneys general and […]
Frank Islam Donald Trump has recently re-asserted that he is a “stable genius.” When we first heard Trump’s proclamation we thought he meant he was good at working in a building with stalls for horses. Seriously, we recognize that Trump intended to communicate that he was a rock steady person with a very high […]
Fahria Khan has the background for the job; all she needs is votes to become the first South Asian on the board Ritu Jha The school district in Fremont, California, has a strong academic record, but also its own set of issues – a shortage of classes, schools, space for them and, undergirding […]
The Desi Comedy Fest, in its fifth year, begins August 9 in the Bay Area Ritu Jha What started as a celebration of the independence of India and Pakistan and the bringing of the people of two countries together has become an annual festival popularly known as the Desi Comedy Fest. The largest South […]
