The Women Over 50 Proving Immigration Reform Is Needed For Business And Society

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As part of our regular segment on ‘Morning Joe’ highlighting women over the age of 50 who are changing the world, Forbes and “Know Your Value” want to shine a light on the women who are pushing for immigration reform.

shows that these immigrant-founded businesses drive more than $1 trillion in sales and employ some 8 million people in the U.S.

The voices of these CEOs are important, but some of the most effective advocates on behalf of a better approach to immigration, however, happen to be women—women who are over the age of 50. And so, as part of our regular segment on ‘Morning Joe’ highlighting women over the age of 50 who are changing the world, Forbes and “Know Your Value” want to shine a light on the women who have raised their voices in support of immigration reform.

In 2020, Escobar delivered the Spanish-language Democratic response to President Trump's State of the Union address, and used part of her time to focus on immigration. More recently, she’s focusing on how she can use her position—as the representative for a border community—to “reshape a system that has focused on border militarization.” As she wrote inThe daughter of Bolivian immigrants, Munoz has dedicated her career to advocating on behalf of people like her parents.

“Paradoxically, creating an environment in the name of security that makes foreigners less welcome and less likely to visit will make our country less prosperous and, eventually, less secure,”. “We need to fix the legal visa process more broadly, use technology to further secure our borders and establish a pathway for the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the shadows.

 

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