Worried About the Mortgage Market? Don’t Blame an Immigrant
Anti-immigrant zealots, as part of their never-ending crusade to blame immigration for virtually every economic and social problem in the United States, continue to insist that the collapse of the subprime mortgage market was rooted in nefarious home purchases by undocumented immigrants. On November...
Canada’s immigration backlogs - blatantly racist
South Asian immigration applications are disproportionately affected by quotas/targets and immense backlogs. For example, the quota, or target as Ottawa calls it, for the New Delhi office is 9,245 visas a year. The backlog as of April 10 was 145,556. With no new applications, it would take a little under...
Some firms are slowly realizing they’ll need minorities to survive
When Vikram Ahluwalia immigrated to Canada four years ago, he couldn’t figure out why he wasn’t getting any job offers. In India, he had spent the better part of a decade working his way up to middle management at a multinational packaged goods company, so he knew he was more than qualified to fill...