Watershed moment in NYC: New law allows noncitizens to vote
NEW YORK (AP) โ More than 800,000 noncitizens and โDreamersโ in New York City will have access to the ballot box โ and could vote in municipal elections as early as next year โ after Mayor Eric Adams allowed legislation to automatically become law Sunday.
House passes immigration bills for farm workers, 'Dreamers'
They then voted 247-174 for a second measure creating similar protections for 1 million farm workers who have worked in the U.S. illegally. While โDreamersโ win wide public support and migrant farm workers are a backbone of the agriculture industry, both House bills face gloomy prospects in the evenly split Senate. Nine House Republicans joined all Democrats in voting for the โDreamersโ measure, but 30 GOP lawmakers backed the farm workers bill, giving it a more bipartisan hue. We don't know what their intentions are,โ Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., said of immigrant farm workers who might seek legal status. AdMaine Rep. Jared Golden's vote against the farm workers measure made him the only Democrat to oppose either bill.
House OKs Dems' immigration bills for Dreamers, farm workers
They then voted 247-174 for a second measure creating similar protections for 1 million farm workers who have worked in the U.S. illegally. While Dreamers win wide public support and migrant farm workers are a backbone of the agriculture industry, both House bills face gloomy prospects in the evenly split Senate. Nine House Republicans joined all Democrats in voting for the Dreamers measure but 30 GOP lawmakers backed the farm workers bill, giving it a more bipartisan hue. AdMaine Rep. Jared Golden's vote against the farm workers measure made him the only Democrat to oppose either bill. The other bill would let immigrant farm workers who've worked in the country illegally over the past two years get certified agriculture worker status.
Tim Cook says Apple employs 443 Dreamers from 25 countries
In an unusually direct show of support for Dreamers from a major public company, Apple and CEO Tim Cook said undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children have made an outsize contribution at Apple. Apple said it employs 443 Dreamers in 36 states, coming from 25 countries. In its filing, Apple relayed anecdotes about the lives and work of five Dreamers who work at Apple, all told anonymously because they "fear retribution." In 2017, the first year of Trump's presidency, Trump's ban on travel to the United States targeting primarily mostly Muslim-majority countries alienated many business leaders. At that time, Cook also issued a letter saying Apple did not support the policy and would support employees from those countries.