EN RESUMEN
Six million dollars are paid to international students in California, and immigrants account for one-fourth of their country’s internal gross output. Federal anti-immigrant policies put it in jeopardy.
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Venkates Swaminathan
Venkates Swaminathan is the executive director of LifeLaunchr, a university admissions counseling service based in Santa Rosa.
It was the first time that I flew from Delhi, India, to the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. I came to the United States as a student, first to the University of Illinois, and then, after receiving my master’s degree, to California, where I have lived ever since. He established businesses, hired employees, and gave me a life here.
My story is about the countless people who came to the United States to study, work, and build. Arvind Krishna, my university roommate, is currently the executive director of IBM. Millions of people have come here and created opportunities and lives.
International students are not the only immigrant group, nor are they the most numerous. A few weeks ago, I went to see my sister graduate from the University of California in San Diego and visited the Chicano Park, where large murals adorn a free-air chapel dedicated to community activism, honoring the thousands of immigrants whose labor and ingenuity built California.
This is what makes today’s news so difficult to understand. As the founder of a university orientation service, I am in the front line to see the recent policies that are changing education.
In recent years, the Supreme Court has allowed the US Department of Education to deprive employees, which has caused delays in financial aid processing, stalled civil rights investigations, and created barriers for communities.
This is the only recent golpe. There have been advancements in the funding of research, a number of new obstacles for visas, and efforts to support diversity and inclusion initiatives that benefit students who belong to minorities. And, presumably, the ICE’s recent reports have caused disruptions to the immigrant communities that have been moved from cities like Los Angeles for a long time.
We observe the domino effect in our work. Some international students are afraid to apply for admission to universities, to move to a campus in the United States, or even to come.
Many of our students are immigrants or the children of immigrants. The mother of a student who attended a Vietnamese university and worked in a saln de u as in Oakland. While she was in the preparatory phase, the student was responsible for family taxes, filling out forms, and working.
Additionally, he obtained a full beca to attend the university. After finishing their studies, they believe they have made a significant contribution to the world.
A student whose parents left India came to the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree after creating an application to identify contaminants that are persistent in their community’s water supply. Another student, whose parents left Mexico to start a life in the South of California, is currently enrolled in an enfermer program at the University of California, Fullerton.
There are thousands of stories like this. Every young person has the ability to improve our future, become the greatest great leader, innovator, or dico.
International students not only bring skills and knowledge to California, but they also bring actual money.
According to the Association of International Teachers (NAFSA, to put it in English), California’s approximately 141,000 international students earned $6.4 million in 2023, creating 55,000 jobs. The increase in these students’ academic performance helps to fund the services for the residents of public universities like UC and CSU.
In general, foreign-born households contribute $715 million, or around one-fourth of the state’s gross domestic output. The undocumented Californians alone pay somewhere around $8.5 million in state and local taxes.
A significant portion of the commentary on the recent political changes focuses on their cruelty, which is understandable, because these actions hurt everyone.
California’s immigrant communities are home to its force. Students, academics, and workers from all over the world are the foundation of our leadership in science, technology, agriculture, and the arts.
I tell the protesters who are fighting to protect the rights and opportunities of immigrants that their fight is our fight. Those who believe that this does not affect them are encouraged to do so. impacts their finances and their children’s future. And to the rights that drive these policies: before California and the United States pierced the same fortifications that they had built.
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