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Business on the Texas-Mexico border

Border life: A rancher's economic argument for a wall

by Andy Uhler
Jan 31, 2019
“For us it’s more from an agriculture point of view. It’s not about politics.”
Rancher Richard Guerra stands in a hallway in his McAllen, Texas home on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019.  Guerra supports a border wall as a way to help prevent fever tick-carrying animals from crossing into Texas from Mexico.
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Business on the Texas-Mexico border

Border life: In "Los dos Laredos," blurred lines between U.S., Mexico

by Andy Uhler
Jan 30, 2019
"We are so, like, one, that you can’t tell one city from the other."
Sandra Bernal helps run her parents’ restaurant,  El Meson de San Agustin, in Laredo, Texas. She’s behind the restaurant’s counter on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2018.
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Fertility and the economy

How immigration could help a shrinking American labor force

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Marketplace Staff
Jan 29, 2019
Young, productive workers "are the new scarce resource," one expert says.
Immigrants stand for the national anthem before becoming American citizens. Chris Farrell says that datasets often underestimate the positive impact immigrants have on the economy.
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Business on the Texas-Mexico border

Border life: The outlet mall in Laredo

by Andy Uhler
Jan 29, 2019
Here on the Texas-Mexico border, most people don’t think about the boundary as much more than an inconvenient passport check.
People driving across the border from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico are greeted by a massive outlet mall, Outlet Shoppes at Laredo in Laredo, Texas, that sells everything from sneakers and T-shirts to kitchenware and iPhones, shown here on Monday, Jan. 28, 2019.
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Undocumented immigrants quietly pay billions into Social Security and receive no benefits

by Nina Roberts
Jan 28, 2019
Undocumented immigrants contributed an estimated $13 billion into Social Security funds in 2016.
Blank Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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H-2B visas need fixing, employers and immigration attorneys say

by Andy Uhler
Jan 18, 2019
You’ve probably heard of H-1B visas. Those are the ones lots of tech firms use to bring in highly skilled workers from countries like India. Lesser-known but still vital to the economy are visas like the H-2A. Those are temporary, seasonal visas handed out to the people who help grow and harvest our food. Then there […]
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Government shutdown 2019

Trump pleads on TV for wall money; Dems say he stokes 'fear'

by Associated Press
Jan 8, 2019
President Trump's televised address comes as the partial government shutdown continues.
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Japan expands use of foreign "interns" to address labor shortage

by Adrian Ma
Oct 10, 2018
The unemployment rate is just 2.4 percent in Japan; the country is filling the job gaps with a controversial program for foreign interns.
Workers at the Tsuda Shoten fish plant in Kamaishi, Japan. About 10 percent of the workers are non-Japanese “interns” who come through a special government program.
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Recent immigration policy moves vex U.S. workers from abroad

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Oct 5, 2018
The lives of many educated, skilled people have essentially been put on hold by a pile of changes to immigration policies.
President Donald Trump speaks in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2017, before signing the "Buy American and Hire American" executive order.
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Day laborers are pressed by Trump immigration policies

by Mitchell Hartman
Aug 9, 2018
Supply and demand of the workers, many of whom are unauthorized, hasn't diminished in many cities in spite of the White House's immigration crackdown.
Day laborers wait for offers of work outside the Don Bosco workers center in Port Chester, New York.
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