Ask Ingrid about her nationality, and you’ll be met with a long sigh and an even longer pause. “I guess I’m a Mexican living in America,” she says. “I can’t…
March 15, 2022
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June 16, 2016
Mexican Woman Recounts Making Her Own Success in ‘a Country That Doesn’t Want Me’
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June 16, 2016
Immigrant Restauranteur Creates 250 American Jobs, Says Each One ‘Makes Me So Happy’
After the launch of his first restaurant — Frida Mexican Cuisine, in Beverly Hills, California — Vicente del Rio went on to open nine more Frida restaurants. Del Rio’s expansion…
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June 15, 2016
This Entrepreneur Wants the U.S. Immigration System to Better Reward Hard Work
Jennifer Lucio Vargas has entrepreneurship in her blood. The founder and CEO of Miami’s 305 Communications and Events was born to immigrant parents from Cuba, and her father worked tirelessly…
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June 15, 2016
Nadina Feakins Helps Give New Immigrants a Voice
When Nadina Feakins left Argentina as a teenager, she admits that she had no idea what she had gotten herself into. “I was just a kid and I had dreams…
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June 15, 2016
Celebrating Immigrant Heritage Month
America is a nation of immigrants and descendants of immigrants, and in recognition of this, June marks Immigrant Heritage Month, which honors our origins as a nation of immigrants through…
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