Overhaul of Immigration Law Could Reshape New York
Jamal Hussain, 26, from Bangladesh, runs a deli on the Lower East Side, which he opened with the help of relatives.
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: May 30, 2007
Few places in the United States could be more deeply affected by the proposed overhaul of legal immigration than New York, say scholars and demographers of immigration.
The proposed law certainly would not end the flow of legal immigration to New York. But it could profoundly alter the currents that have long fed the city’s mom and pop entrepreneurship, its kaleidoscopic diversity, and family networks that nurture and help assimilate newcomers.
More of the city’s newcomers, compared with immigrants in other parts of the country, continue to gain entry through the very family visas that the pending bill would restrict or abolish — and that would be replaced with a point system based on skills and education. Leia mais aqui no The New York Times
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