As an LA native born and raised, my staunchest recollection of racial injustice at the hands of the LAPD was without a doubt the Rodney King beating by four white police officers all caught on tape in 1991.
In fact, an estimated 30percentt of the small business growth over the last two decades was driven by immigrants -- and immigrants are more than twice as likely to start a business as native born Americans.
As a native-born Persian, he enjoyed a rapport with his many subjects that Western photographers could not match.
Bowing down to the twin gods of Sarah Palin and the Fox News blowhard Glenn Beck, these rightists have set about depicting Obama as a socialist, a Stalinist, a Nazi, a Muslim and a foreigner posing as a native-born US citizen.
The Americans, the acclaimed FX television series, focuses on the exploits and family drama of two Soviet spies, Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, living in Washington during the Reagan years, passing as a native-born suburban couple with two kids, who run a travel agency.
I think the Axeman crimes are probably best understood as a native-born white laborer (eyewitness accounts confirm this) who had some grudge against the Italians who were leaving day labor behind to become small businessmen, possibly out of social envy or anxiety.
In any case, he wouldn't experience that it was as easy to get access as a native-born Dane or an [regular] immigrant would" (ID 52, female GP).
Yaya DaCosta also stars as Nurse April Sexton, a Chicago native born to Brazilian parents, who is actively in pursuit of her longtime dream of becoming a doctor.
There is evidence that a strong ethnic identity lowers the probability of being employed for immigrants (Constant et al. 2006; Bisin et al. 2011) and that at the time of arrival, immigrants earn a lower wage as compared to native born (Adsera and Chiswick 2007).
That's as true of immigrants as the native born.
