News Mentions/Interviews

GMC Director Giovanni Peri was featured on Business Insider. Rising food prices are correlated to the “lack of workers and the need to raise wages.” Peri states that reform on the legislative degree would help not see such a stagnation of immigrants. 

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Red Franciscana para Migrantes (RFM) launched a new rubric of  “Migrant Stories” that features the Humanizing La Deportatión project. These stories emphasize human rights issues underlying contemporary migration dynamics in North America.

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri, was featured on Forbes. This feature pertains to recent data on the denial rates with H-1B at its lowest marking just around 2%. Citing his research saying that by “maintaining the H-1B annual numerical limits harms job growth for U.S.-born professionals.

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GMC affiliate Daniel Costa's Fresno Bee report on immigration reform for farmworkers and giving an estimate as to how many can obtain legal status. 
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GMC affiliate Daniel Costa's Coauthored op-ed on overtime pay for farmworkers in NY state, in the Albany Times Union. 

GMC affiliate Daniel Costa on MarketWatch/ Dow Jones podcast, “Best New Ideas in Money,” the topic is legal immigration. Costa in regard to the perspective that immigrants only contribute to the economy states also how, “they also contribute socially and culturally. And then the whole other very important component of the immigration system that we haven't talked about is the humanitarian system, the asylum system and refugee system, those two pathways with which migrants can come into the United States.”

GMC affiliate Daniel Costa on NPR Morning Edition on immigration and inflation. Immigration lately has been seeing a decline which has contributed effects to the economy and why there is a dire need to fill a significant amount of jobs currently. Costa states that “… ending Title 42 would be the right thing to do morally and legally. And the United States should fulfill its humanitarian obligations and let more people in and let them be processed the way the way we're supposed to.”

GMC director Giovanni Peri was featured on Marketplace. In talking about the decline of immigration in the US, they cite Peri noting that 80% of this number would be in the work force but that, “'We were missing 1.7 million immigrants in that working age group.'” 

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GMC external affiliate Chad Sparber appeared on Time in regard to the losses of jobs that foreign born workers are facing, specifically in the tech industry after the H-1B work visas expired. This type of visa requires that workers rely heavily on their employer therefore Sparber states, “It’s a recipe for exploitation.” as the worker is unable to advance their talents elsewhere. It also allows for companies to underpay their workers which is why Sparber calls to reforms these visas.