As most Americans are aware, Pres. Donald Trump issued a series of Executive Orders within the first few days after his inauguration in 2025. Many organizations are beginning to issue statements of guidance for their members. For example, the Episcopal Church of American has issued the following guidance: Church members should advocate with Congress to…
The Immigrant Legal Resource Center has put together an important information to help immigrants plan for what may lie ahead in the U.S. under the Trump Administration. It includes a Family Preparedness Plan, with plans for child care and who will care for children if parents are unable to do so. It also includes a…
A study released in July by the Taxation and Economic Policy think tank showed that undocumented immigrants paid nearly $437 million in taxes in Colorado in 2022. If the undocumented people in Colorado – estimated at 156,000 individuals – had been allowed to work legally, the think tank estimated that they would have paid an…
TPS – Temporary Protected Status – covers about a million immigrants to the United States. Now President Joe Biden has extended that protection by 18 months for 600,000Venezuelans and more than 230,000 Salvadorans who are already living in the U.S. And Homeland Security has extended TPS for more than 103,000 Ukrainians and 1,900 Sudanese who…
Interesting Statistics from the Migrant Policy Institute By Susan M. Thornton, MS The latest statistics from the Migrant Policy Institute contain a number of interesting findings. Among those: Immigrants play a growing role in the U.S. labor force. In 1970, the foreign born accounted for 5 percent of the civilian labor force, with this share…
The Denver Gazette has reported (Jan. 18, 2024) that the Pew Research Center has evaluated the benefit that immigrants bring to Colorado’s economy compared with their public costs. The Pew, a respected nonprofit think tank, found that undocumented workers pump $2 billion into the Colorado economy annually, while costing the State $200 million per year.…
IPC is pleased to announce that the Unitarian Society of Denver has donated $1,281.76 to Immigrant Pathways Colorado to help IPC provide self-development grants to immigrants to Colorado who are documented and have very low income. IPC Co-Chair Susan Thornton made a presentation to the Unitarians in June, and their collection for that day was…
By Susan M. Thornton, MS In April of 2023, the President’s Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute held a summit titled “Higher Education Pathways to Immigration: Why it Matters.” Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Carola Suárez-Orozco Professor in Residence at the Harvard Graduate School…
Immigrant Pathways Colorado (IPC) announces that it has received a grant of $3,000 from the Littleton Rotary Foundation. Susan Thornton, founder and co-chair of IPC, said the award will help IPC make self-development grants to immigrants, refugees and asylees from around the world who are in the U.S. with documents, who have very low income,…
By Susan M. Thornton, Co-Chair, Immigrant Pathways Colorado Writing in the Colorado Sun (January 8, 2023), Diane Carmen made a compelling case for modernizing America’s “underfunded, outdated and nonfunctional” immigration system. The system is failing immigrants, she wrote, at a time when our country has a historic workforce shortage, an aging population, declining birthrates and…