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Strangers is a podcast hosted by Danish-born [1] producer Lea Thau. [2] Initially part of KCRW's Independent Producer project, Strangers became a founding member of PRX's Radiotopia podcasting collective in 2014. [3] Thau announced in November 2017 that Strangers would be leaving the Radiotopia collective. [4]
To his supporters, Alejandro Mayorkas is a thoughtful, driven secretary — a “Boy Scout” — who brings a prosecutor's tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant experience in ...
An 1887 illustration of immigrants on an ocean steamer passing the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Due to its history the United States can be described as an immigration country. American immigration history can be viewed in four epochs: the colonial period, the mid-19th century, the start of the 20th century, and post-1965.
Even there, the immigrants came mostly from England and Scotland, with the exception of Pennsylvania's large Germanic contingent. Elsewhere, internal American migration from other colonies provided nearly all of the settlers for each new colony or state. [21] Populations grew by about 80% over a 20-year period, at a "natural" annual growth rate ...
Immigrants and their children comprise only 27% of the U.S. population, but they have, according to the American Immigration Council, founded 46% of the companies on the Fortune 500 list ...
Like Oprah's 105th Book Club pick, "Long Island," by Colm Tóibin, the books on this list remind us that immigrants get the job done!
America in One Room was a 2019 event that assembled the largest representative sample of the American voting electorate in history to discuss polarizing political issues. [1] It utilized a method called deliberative polling , led by Stanford Professors James Fishkin and Larry Diamond of the Center for Deliberative Democracy.
Jul. 23—The unique musical language of the United States is rooted in the songs brought to her shores by successive waves of immigrants. Hear this music performed by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale ...