{"id":3620,"date":"2024-07-15T20:03:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T03:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2024-07-16T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T22:38:02","slug":"politics-and-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/07\/15\/politics-and-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics and immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>But not the way you were probably thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump&#8217;s wife Melania is an immigrant to the U.S., having been born in the Slovenia area of the former Yugoslavia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>His VP nominee&#8217;s wife is a child of immigrants from India; she is a lawyer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/who-is-usha-vance-the-wife-of-trump-s-running-mate\/ar-BB1q2zh1?ocid=BingNewsBrowse\">Who is Usha Vance, the wife of Trump\u2019s running mate? (msn.com)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VP Kamela Harris&#8217; parents were immigrants from India and Jamaica. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/8\/13\/21364392\/kamala-harris-immigration\">Harris counts twice on ethnicity &#8211; as both a &#8220;black woman&#8221; and a &#8220;Indian woman&#8221;.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>President Biden&#8217;s, son <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/who-is-melissa-cohen-biden-hunter-biden-8661672\">Hunter Biden&#8217;s wife, is from South Africa<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve gone from 4.7% of the U.S. population was foreign born in 1973, to 15% is today foreign born. About 25% of Americans are either foreign born or have an immigrant parent. And about 40% have at least one grandparent that is an immigrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the workforce, among professional jobs, having global experience and connections is common place and often an important distinguishing factor for obtaining a job or for pursuing higher level positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Teresa Heinz Kerry (wife of former US Sec of State John Kerry), was born in Mozambique.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the business world, Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s wife, Dr.  Priscilla Zuckerberg MD, is the daughter of immigrants.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeff Bezo&#8217;s wife, Lauren Sanchez, is the grandchild of immigrants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This could become a long list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An observation is that in today&#8217;s world, having close immigrant ties is important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globally-experienced","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}