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Immigrant-owned firms fight to stay put

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Himanshu Sareen was in the midst of building the New York City operation of his 300-employee, New Delhi-headquartered tech company when he got a letter from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It arrived in duplicate at home and at work: His visa was not being renewed. He needed to pack his bags.

By just about any measure, Mr. Sareen is the kind of entrepreneurial immigrant the city and the country ought to want. In the middle of 2011, when the letters arrived, the New York City office of Icreon Tech had $3 million in revenue, employed 10 people and had 12 clients.

In the eyes of Homeland Security, “it wasn’t real enough,” he said.

Mr. Sareen managed the new office remotely for a year, until, on reapplication, he was granted another L-1A visa, for executives working for international companies.

He expects revenue of $12 million in the New York office this year. One of his company’s projects, ironically, was working on a system for the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island.

“Immigration is not an intelligent system,” he said wryly, and noted that he racked up 1 million frequent-flier miles on the 14-hour trips between New York and India.

Though the chances for immigration reform to pass in the newly elected GOP-controlled Congress in the coming months appear slim, the informal campaign is picking up steam again in New York and elsewhere. Advocates are pressing President Barack Obama to make staying here easier for entrepreneurs or people who are in the U.S. under employment visas.

Perhaps because so many undocumented immigrants and people from so-called mixed families of legal and illegal immigrants are sharing their personal stories, more entrepreneurs like Mr. Sareen are speaking out. While the stories of the children on the southern border of the U.S. rend hearts, it’s the experiences of entrepreneurial immigrants that could result in meaningful reform, even this year.

“Initially I was a little scared,” said Atulya Pandey, a native of Nepal who is a co-founder of Pagevamp, a three-year-old Manhattan-based company that employs six. “But now I talk to people in my co-working space regularly, and whenever there are events I try to get people to come to be educated.”

Mr. Pandey is active through FWD.us., a high-profile immigration-reform group that has established a New York City chapter and now has 30,000 supporters in the metro area. FWD.us is backed by Silicon Valley’s biggest names, including Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman. There are a handful of New Yorkers on its list of major contributors, including Fred Wilson and Barry Diller.


Decade-long waits




The advocates are pressing for what’s known as administrative action, rather than broad legislative reform. Mr. Obama could make some changes through the Department of Homeland Security bureaucracy, such as making more green cards available or altering the rules so that dependents of visa holders don’t count toward quotas.

The system is cumbersome at best. Professionals, including doctors and highly skilled engineers and executives, wait for as long as a decade to obtain a visa if they are from countries such as India or China. Businesspeople who want to establish companies here, or immigrants who are already here and want to launch firms, typically don’t face long waits, but they do have a dizzying array of options—and there’s risk involved in all.

For instance, an entrepreneur from another country could get a green card, becoming a permanent legal resident, by agreeing to invest $1 million “in a commercial enterprise” and create 10 jobs, according to David Leopold, a past president of the Washington, D.C.-based American Immigration Lawyers Association.

If a business didn’t meet those criteria, the entrepreneur would have to return home. It’s particularly difficult to get a renewal of an L-1A visa, the kind Mr. Sareen had, immigration attorneys say.

“Why would you come here if you run the risk of losing your investment?” Mr. Leopold asked.

Any kind of reform could have a big impact locally.

New York City has long been a haven for immigrants. In 2010, 31.2% of all business owners in New York state were foreign-born, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Immigration Policy Center, a nonpartisan organization. That number rises to 36% in the New York City metropolitan area. These businesses had a total net income of $12.6 billion, representing 22.6% of all net business income in the state.

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Immigrant-owned firms are aided by formal and informal city policies that aim to treat the large population of foreign-born residents just like any other New Yorkers. The latest example: an initiative to create a municipal ID card that could enable even illegal immigrants to open bank accounts.

Among local entrepreneurs lobbying for reform is Madhav Krishna, a native of Delhi who came here to attend Columbia University, graduating in 2008. After years of encounters with the immigration system, he has become an acolyte for FWD.us in the past year, attending meetings and informing others, such as his partners in a startup launched in January, about immigration issues. “My American co-founders had no idea the system worked this way until I explained it,” he said.

Mr. Krishna has his own firm, mESL, which employs three people part-time to work on an app to help teach English. But to maintain his green-card status, he keeps a day job in advertising tech company ADstruc. For FWD.us, he is working on an app that might help tell stories of people caught in the system.

“I think about it every night, every day, how much further along I would be if I could work on my company full-time,” he said.

What may finally push some immigration reform into reality is the burgeoning influence of Asian immigrants. Asians became the fastest-growing immigrant group in the U.S. almost a decade ago, according to the Pew Research Center. Among those ages 25 to 64 who have arrived in recent years, 61% have at least a bachelor’s degree. This is double the share among recent non-Asian arrivals, and almost surely makes them the most highly educated cohort of immigrants in U.S. history, said the report.

These immigrants are making their mark in entrepreneurship. Asian-immigrant-owned businesses in New York City had average annual revenue of $292,000, versus $96,000 for native-born entrepreneurs, according to an analysis of financial data by Manhattan-based Biz2Credit of 18,904 companies that applied for loans on its platform between Jan. 1, 2013, and Oct. 14, 2014. The company connects small businesses with lenders, including banks and other funders, via an online platform. The average credit score of businesses owned by Asian immigrants was 664, versus 627 for U.S.-born owners.

Mr. Pandey said he could have gotten a much higher-paying job after his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, but he was too drawn to entrepreneurship. Mr. Pandey’s Pagevamp gives users an inexpensive way to maintain websites by using Facebook to manage them. He and his co-founders met on -moving-in day in their college dorm. He is legally in the U.S. because he is still a student, taking one class a week at a vocational school.

“My struggles within the immigration system involve more than just my own experience: They involve my colleagues and the business that we’re trying to build and grow,” he said.









A version of this article appears in the November 10, 2014, print issue of Crain’s New York Business as “Immigrant-owned firms fight to stay put”.



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Birthweight charts tailored to specific ethnic groups may be better predictor of adverse outcomes

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As a result, many babies born to immigrant mothers, especially those from South and East Asia, may be incorrectly labelled small for their gestational age or large for their gestational age, according to research published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Those designations can trigger medical interventions, such as heightened monitoring and follow-up care for small babies, which may not be necessary, said Dr. Marcelo Urquia, an epidemiologist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health of St. Michael’s Hospital and an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Or, they may miss large babies associated with complicated deliveries.

Dr. Urquia and colleagues have developed a series of birthweight curves for specific regions of the world–graphs used to plot how one newborn’s weight compares to others. A baby whose birthweight is in the lowest tenth percentile of the curve is deemed to be “small for gestational age.” One whose birthweight is in the highest tenth percentile is deemed to be “large for gestational age.”

Dr. Urquia looked at 1,089,647 single births in Ontario between 2002 and 2012. About one-third of those babies (328,387) were born to immigrant mothers, of whom more than half (53.6 per cent) were of East and South Asian origin.

About 10 per cent (33,780) of infants born to immigrant mothers were classified as small for gestational age on both the Canadian and regional scales. These babies were more likely to die or suffer adverse events than heavier infants, Dr. Urquia said.

About 6 per cent of additional infants born to immigrant mothers were classified as small for gestational age on the Canadian curve but not on the birthweight curve for the mother’s country of origin.

Compared to newborns of Canadian-born mothers, newborns of immigrant mothers classified as small for gestational age on the Canadian curve had lower odds of adverse events such as a lengthy hospital stay or death. But babies classified as small on the world-region specific curves were more likely to die or suffer adverse events.

Approximately 5.4 per cent of babies to immigrant mothers were deemed large for gestational age when using both curves and about 4.3 per cent were classified as large when using only the world-region specific curves. These deliveries of babies missed by the Canadian curve also exhibited complications associated with large babies, such as perineal tears in the mother, shoulder dystocia (when the baby’s shoulder gets stuck behind the mother’s public bone, preventing easy delivery) and postpartum hemorrhage.

“World region-specific curves seem more appropriate than a single Canadian curve for assessing the impact of small for gestational age and large for gestational age on adverse neonatal and obstetrical outcomes among some immigrant groups, particularly those whose birth weight distributions differ markedly from that of the local population, such as East and South Asian immigrants,” Dr. Urquia wrote.

“Estimating the number of newborns conceivably spared unnecessary prolonged stay in hospital, special care, or referral for specialized pediatric or nutritional interventions and the cost savings therein, is a worthwhile step in evaluating the impact of adopting world region-specific curves among certain immigrant populations.”

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Immigrant lawyer hopes his effort inspires others

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CHICO, California (AP) — Sergio Garcia is a civil litigation lawyer in California who represents clients in car accidents.

He doesn’t practice immigration law, which Garcia says surprises many people because of his high-profile battle to become the first known immigrant in the country without legal permission to become a licensed attorney.

“No way, man,” Garcia said. “Not after what I’ve been through.”

Garcia, 37, a native of Mexico, won his license after a bruising five-year legal and political battle that included a ruling in January from the California Supreme Court. It came after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a specially crafted bill passed by the state Legislature to let Garcia practice law.

Soon after, Garcia rented an office in the rural Northern California college town of Chico, hired a secretary, hung his law degree on the wall, dressed in natty suits appropriate for an attorney, and began airing commercials on Spanish-language television and radio.

He also works as a motivational speaker, garnering modest fees to give talks about his experience growing up in the U.S. and Mexico and of achieving his dream to practice law.

“I would do it again,” Garcia said. “But it wasn’t easy. It still isn’t.”

Garcia said he hopes his experience will inspire others living in the country illegally to follow his example.

His experience led California lawmakers to pass a separate bill allowing other professionals living in the country without permission — including doctors, architects and dentists — to receive licenses to practice. The law goes into effect Jan. 1.

Top attorneys represented Garcia and he received support from national immigration groups in his push for a law license. But he faced opposition from the Obama administration, which filed court papers urging the California Supreme Court to reject his application before state lawmakers passed the special law for Garcia. Federal law says noncitizens can’t receive public benefits, including professional licenses, unless a state specifies otherwise.

Garcia said making the transition from a national figure for immigration rights to the everyday toil of making a living has been difficult at times.

“There are studies that show depression sets in after people experience their 15 minutes of fame,” he said. “I’m no different.”

Garcia, who is single, said he was the target of numerous insults and several threats during his high-profile legal battle. He said he still receives an occasional anonymous phone call or email asking if he pays his taxes, which he says he does.

“I also pay payroll taxes and health insurance for my assistant,” he added.

Garcia continues to battle bureaucratic tangles over taxes and payments — and critics who object to his presence in the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Justice argued before the California Supreme Court in opposing Garcia’s law license that U.S. citizens are not allowed to knowingly hire workers who live in the country without permission.

Larry DeSha, a former lawyer with the California State Bar, also formally opposed Garcia’s receiving a license on the same grounds. DeSha argued that someone living in the United States without permission could not enter into contracts with any U.S. citizen or others living here legally.

Wendy Feliz, a spokeswoman with the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group Immigration Policy Center, dismissed those concerns, arguing that workers living in the United States without legal permission have contributed billions of dollars in income taxes.

“People have been knowingly hiring nannies, gardeners, field workers and others forever,” Lopez said. “It just so happens he’s a lawyer.”

Garcia arrived with his parents in California when he was an infant and returned to Mexico when he was 9. He returned to the U.S. when he was 17 and has remained in the Chico area where his father — a naturalized U.S. citizen — operates a successful beekeeping business. Garcia applied for a green card granting permanent residency status in 1994 and is hopeful he will finally receive one in the next several weeks.

After graduating from a public high school, Garcia earned a paralegal certificate from Chico State University. He attended Cal Northern School of Law in Chico at night, graduating in 2009. He passed California’s notoriously difficult bar exam on his first attempt that same year and applied to the California Supreme Court to practice law, something he has always wanted to do.

“To be quite honest, I never had a plan B, and that’s one reason I fought so hard,” Garcia said. “Now, when I talk to students, I tell them to always have a plan B because plan A may be harder than you think.”

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Associated Press photographer Rich Pedroncelli contributed to this report from Chico, California.

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Immigrant who hid in church temporarily released

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An immigrant activist who took refuge at an Oregon church to avoid deportation and was arrested this week on a federal charge of illegal re-entry has been temporarily released on a federal judge’s order.

Judge Janice Stewart on Friday ordered Francisco Aguirre to be released while he’s awaiting the start of his trial on Jan. 13. Aguirre pleaded not guilty to the charge in court.

Aguirre’s supporters confirmed Friday night that he had been released and was returning to Portland’s Augustana Lutheran Church, his refuge since September.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials confirmed ICE has lifted its detainer on Aguirre, meaning his removal from the U.S. is on hold pending the outcome of his criminal case.

Aguirre came to the U.S. from El Salvador nearly two decades ago. He was arrested Thursday at a county court, where he had gone to settle a case of driving under the influence.

The federal arrest stems from a past criminal case. Aguirre was deported in 2000 after a drug conviction; the government says he then unlawfully re-entered the country.

Records show the 35-year-old was indicted by a grand jury in September on the illegal re-entry charge.

Aguirre came to the attention of authorities in August after a DUI arrest. He took refuge at Augustana Lutheran Church in September, after authorities tried to detain him at home. The agents did not have a warrant, so they could not enter his home.

Aguirre is among those who have taken sanctuary in U.S. churches in recent years because authorities generally don’t make arrests in places of worship.

The father of two children who are U.S. citizens is now the coordinator of a Portland nonprofit that runs a day labor center. His supporters, who include Portland’s mayor, say Aguirre has positively contributed to his community during the past decade and should be allowed to remain in the U.S. with his family.

A crowd of supporters, including the pastor of the church where Aguirre took sanctuary, packed Portland’s federal magistrate’s court to capacity on Friday. Aguirre’s wife, Dora Reyna, wiped away tears in the front row when Aguirre walked in wearing blue jail scrubs.

His attorney, Ellen Pitcher, told the judge that Aguirre did not plan to run. She said he had been “kidnapped, tortured, and otherwise abused as a child” in his country of birth, and had “no intention of taking flight to El Salvador.”

Aguirre’s release conditions include a ban on travel outside Oregon, a ban on changing his place of residence, and surrender of all travel documents.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Nyhus, who is prosecuting the case in Oregon, declined to comment.

Nearly all of those sentenced in federal court for unlawful re-entry received a prison sentence, according to a report by the Pew Hispanic Center. On average, the sentence length for these offenders was about two years.

Aguirre’s immigration lawyer, Stephen Manning, had said Aguirre was in the process of obtaining a U-visa, a special document for violent-crime victims who help authorities investigate or prosecute cases.

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Oregon immigrant who took sanctuary from deportation inside church gets arrested at court

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PORTLAND, Ore. –  An immigrant activist who took refuge at an Oregon church more than a month ago to avoid deportation has been arrested on federal charges of illegal re-entry.

Francisco Aguirre, who came to the U.S. from El Salvador nearly two decades ago, was arrested at the Clackamas County Circuit Court on Thursday. He was there to settle a DUI case.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported Aguirre to El Salvador in 2000 after a drug conviction. He then unlawfully re-entered the country.

Aguirre came to the attention of authorities in August after a DUI arrest. Records show the 35-year-old was indicted by a grand jury in September.

Aguirre is among those who have taken sanctuary in U.S. churches in recent years, as immigration reform has stalled, because authorities generally don’t make arrests in sensitive locations.

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Immigrant who hid in a Oregon church gets arrested

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PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — An immigrant activist who took refuge at an Oregon church more than a month ago to avoid deportation has been arrested on federal charges of illegal re-entry.

Francisco Aguirre, who came to the U.S. from El Salvador nearly two decades ago, was arrested in court on Thursday. He was there to settle a case of driving while intoxicated.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported Aguirre to El Salvador in 2000 after a drug conviction. He then unlawfully re-entered the country.

Aguirre came to the attention of authorities in August after his arrest for driving under the influence.

Aguirre is among those who have taken sanctuary in U.S. churches in recent years, as immigration reform has stalled, because authorities generally don’t make arrests in sensitive locations.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An immigrant activist who took refuge at an Oregon church more than a month ago to avoid deportation has been arrested on federal charges of illegal re-entry.

Francisco Aguirre, who came to the U.S. from El Salvador nearly two decades ago, was arrested at the Clackamas County Circuit Court on Thursday. He was there to settle a DUI case.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported Aguirre to El Salvador in 2000 after a drug conviction. He then unlawfully re-entered the country.

Aguirre came to the attention of authorities in August after a DUI arrest. Records show the 35-year-old was indicted by a grand jury in September.

Aguirre is among those who have taken sanctuary in U.S. churches in recent years, as immigration reform has stalled, because authorities generally don’t make arrests in sensitive locations.

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Immigrant groups urge Obama to make promised move

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Illegal immigrant given £50 for train ticket to hand himself in disappears

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  • Byn Nguyen was cleared of running a cannabis factory despite ‘probably being involved’ 
  • Judge asked that the Home Office be alerted so officials could detain him 
  • But court security guards released illegal immigrant when nobody collected him
  • Teenager had been given money to travel to Solihull to turn himself in to be processed by the Home Office
  • Incident happened on Tuesday and there is no word as to whether he followed the orders 

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Byn Nguyen (pictured), was cleared by a judge at Hull Crown Court of running a cannabis factory despite probably being involved.

Byn Nguyen (pictured), was cleared by a judge at Hull Crown Court of running a cannabis factory despite ‘probably being involved’.

An illegal immigrant from Vietnam was allowed to walk free from court in farcical circumstances after a judge tried to ensure he was held for deportation.

Byn Nguyen, 19, was cleared by a judge at Hull Crown Court of running a cannabis factory despite ‘probably being involved’.

He had originally tried running away when found hiding at the property by police and spent six months in custody before his case went to trial.

Fearing he would flee the authorities and ‘evaporate into the black economy’ after his release, Judge Jeremy Richardson, QC, asked that the Home Office be alerted so that officials could detain him. 

Police were also made aware of the situation and the judge’s fears Nguyen may disappear again.

But two hours after his trial collapsed Nguyen was released by security guards at Hull Crown Court because no one had come to collect him and there were no warrants against his name.

The Vietnamese teenager had been given £50 to catch a train and was expected to travel 100 miles to Solihull to hand himself in to be processed by the Home Office.

The incident happened on Tuesday and yesterday there was no word as to whether Nguyen followed orders or vanished into the night as the judge feared he would.

Nguyen was charged with production of cannabis between January and May this year after he was arrested at a house in Goole, East Yorkshire, containing £24,000 of the drug.

Police found his finger prints on two cups and a can of drink at the property and the prosecution claimed his job was to fertilise the plants and control their lighting.

After prosecutor Stephen Robinson outlined the Crown’s case the judge ordered the jury to return a not guilty verdict due to insufficient evidence.

Judge Richardson told the jury the fingerprint evidence did not prove he was involved in the drug production as ‘mere presence at the scene was not enough’ to prove guilt.

He said the defendant’s claim to have been at the house one night seemed like ‘a tall story’ and ‘has a nasty smell.’ 

He told the jury: ‘You may have reached the view, as I have, that he was probably involved. It is highly questionable what he did. But probable is not a crime.’

The judge continued: ‘He will have to be reported to the Home Office. I am going to release him very shortly indeed. I would like the Home Office to know of this immediately, otherwise I think he will evaporate into what is described as the black economy.’

Judge Richardson then told the defendant: ‘You are an illegal immigrant. You should not be in the UK. I have no idea how you got here. 

‘That is for the Home Office to sort out. I think it highly likely that you will be deport and not allowed back in the UK or any other European state. For you it is a pyrrhic victory as you will be sent back to Vietnam.’

Two hours after his trial collapsed Nguyen was released by security guards at Hull Crown Court (pictured) because no one had come to collect him and there were no warrants against his name

Two hours after his trial collapsed Nguyen was released by security guards at Hull Crown Court (pictured) because no one had come to collect him and there were no warrants against his name

Nguyen was crying in the dock but stopped when his interpreter told him he had been cleared. The defendant then held his hands as if in prayer.

The judge told him he had received papers to go to Solihull and could make an application for asylum at that point.

The police officer in the case was at Hull Crown Court and told of the judge’s request to alert the Home Office.

No officials arrived and it is believed police took no action as they had no legal right to detain him.

After being released from the cells Nguyen was asked what he was going to do and said: ‘Where is the train station?’ He then walked off. 

A source from the G4S security company said: ‘This is not the first time. We are fed up of it frankly. We had an illegal immigrant we released from Grimsby Crown Court last Friday. 

‘We rang up the Home Office and they said “there is nobody here. Its 3pm. Tell him to come and see us on Monday.” So we just let him go from cells.’

Humberside Police have declined to comment. The Home Office has yet to respond to a request for comment.

 


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'Immigrant Magazine' Gives Voice To A Range Of Communities

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When Pamela Anchang came to United States from Cameroon 20 years ago, she had a problem. Like a lot of immigrants, she felt that she didn’t see herself in the media.

PAMELA ANCHANG: I just felt like there was a void. Yes, there are tons and tons of magazines out there, but most of these magazine and newspapers target themselves. So, say, you read India West or Africa Times. What are the chances that someone non-African or non-Indian would pick that up? So essentially you’re preaching to your own choir.

RATH: Ten years ago, she started the Immigrant Magazine to provide a bridge to those different communities with stories from a wide range of perspectives.

ANCHANG: Immigrant stories are not just about a crisis situation. Immigrants don’t always want to see themselves as victims.

RATH: Right now, on the site, there’s a story about palliative care in the Chinese-American community, a Korean TV show that tackles mental illness and a new album from a Guinean musician. Pamela Anchang’s own immigrant story started in 1994, when she left Cameroon. After a spring of multiparty politics took off in the country, her cousin was one of the opposition leaders who challenged the president, and her family felt unsafe.

ANCHANG: We were politically targeted. Socially, I felt – in the university – harassed. So I left Cameroon under those conditions, you know, thinking, you know what? Let me go to a place where I can be myself, where I can thrive.

RATH: When she came to the U.S., she started working as a teacher and a computer engineer. But Anchang dreamed of being a journalist as a child, so she started writing articles about Africa and her life back home.

ANCHANG: It turns out I had no place to publish them. There was nowhere to share my experiences.

RATH: Living in Los Angeles, she met immigrants from all over the world and started hearing remarkable studies. She found out that she wasn’t the only one who didn’t feel she had a voice.

ANCHANG: And so I decided – I said, you know what? If we don’t have a place to tell our stories, I’m going to create mine.

RATH: She founded the Immigrant Magazine as a print magazine in 2004. Now it’s a website and online newsletter. One of the stories that’s meant the most to her over the years was an interview with a Filipina immigrant.

ANCHANG: Virgelia Villegas is her name, and I was doing this interview with her. And in the middle of the story, she said, Pam, I came to the United States because my mother paired me up with her business partner. I was only 16. And I moved out here, married to this guy. I had two children. And a few years later, I became a widow.

She told me, I only have a high school diploma. And so she turns around now, and she’s giving back. She has built a compelling enterprise of cultural pageants. Now, she doesn’t call them beauty pageants because she’s really about forming young women in the Latino community and the Asian community.

RATH: Stories like this, about success and triumph, are the ones that Anchang wants to get out, to uplift immigrants and their commute. Most of the contributors to the magazine are freelancers, and she’s not able to pay them yet, but hopes to in the future. Money for the magazine comes from advertising and sponsorship. She has a lot of goals for keeping this going and growing. They’re adding video components and working to produce pilot shows that can be sold or syndicated.

Though the site is mostly features and Q and As and isn’t overtly political in nature, immigration is, of course, a heated political issue. I asked Pamela Anchang if, as the editor of a magazine like hers, it’s hard to cover a community without also becoming an advocate.

ANCHANG: You know, as I’m editing articles, I get all kinds of articles, and I try to be as, you know, fair as possible. I like to present both sides. However, my side is a humanitarian stance, so my political stance is purely advocacy. I also work with organizations who actually are grooming immigrants for leadership so they can turn and run for office, so that maybe the more of us are in office.

We can begin to maybe really then pass that message across because if we don’t have any representation, politically speaking, how are we going to change any laws or make the laws to adapt to our interests? So we – yes, I do have interest in political…

(LAUGHTER)

ANCHANG: Yes, I do. It takes politics to make changes, so that’s something that I do not neglect.

RATH: That’s Pamela Anchang, the editor and founder of the Immigrant Magazine.

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