This Week In Immigration

In this week’s episode, we’re going across the pond to talk about the United Kingdom’s approach to immigration, and how that approach might change with the election of a new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, the appointment of a new Cabinet, and the sad news of the Queen’s passing. We’ll welcome three guests – Liz Mair, a British-American political and communications consultant; Cris Ramón, Global and U.S. Immigration Policy Researcher and Analyst; and Matt Dathan, Home Affairs Editor at The Times UK.

In this week’s episode, we’re focusing on immigration and the workforce, specifically the role that legal immigration reform can play in reshaping our nation’s workforce in the short- and long-term. Theresa Cardinal Brown, BPC’s Managing Director of Immigration and Cross-border Policy, will be joined by Ben Gitis, Associate Director of the Economic Policy Project at BPC, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President of the American Action Forum.

In this week’s episode, BPC's Director of Migration and Cross-Border Policy, Theresa Cardinal Brown, joins for a “newsy” episode focused on the latest in immigration. We’ll highlight some of the major happenings in the immigration world, including the end of MPP, high-skilled immigration and the CHIPS ACT, the collapse of the legal immigration system, and child separation. Discussed on the show: https://borderlines.substack.com/p/immigration-system-creaks-under-its?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-immigration/670604/

On this episode of This Week in Immigration, we're re-releasing a conversation between BPC’s Director of Immigration and Cross-Border Policy Theresa Cardinal Brown and Ambassador Arturo Sarukhán, who served as Mexico’s ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2013 under President Felipe Calderon. 

In this episode, we’re sharing snippets from our recent Twitter Spaces discussion, "Real Solutions for the Border," that discussed bipartisan solutions to address the situation at the border. Michelle Hackman, an immigration reporter at The Wall Street Journal, moderated the discussion. The panelists included Cris Ramón, Global and U.S. Immigration Policy Researcher and Analyst; Laura Collins, Director at the Bush Institute- SMU Economic Growth Initiative; Danilo Zak, Policy & Advocacy Manger at the National Immigration Forum, and Theresa Cardinal Brown, managing director of immigration and cross-border policy at BPC.

In this episode, we’re discussing the role of the Supreme Court in shaping immigration policy with Theresa Cardinal Brown and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Policy Director at the American Immigration Council. Specifically, we’ll highlight some the major Supreme Court cases that were adjudicated during this term and how they are affecting the immigration system. We’ll also cover DACA in the lower court focusing on what we might see if DACA is overturned.

In this episode, we’re sharing highlights from our June 13 webinar that discussed our most recent report, “Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Economic Potential and Obstacles to Success.” The report and accompanying webinar examine who immigrant entrepreneurs are, what types of businesses they start, and what obstacles they face. The panelists included Cris Ramón, Global and U.S. Immigration Policy Researcher and Analyst; Christina da Silva, Welcoming Communities and Immigrant Affairs Officer at the City of Dallas; Dane Stangler, Director of Strategic Initiatives at BPC; and Adrian Bota, co-founder and CEO of Origin Milk and an immigrant entrepreneur. The event was moderated by Theresa Cardinal Brown, Managing Director of Immigration and Cross-Border Policy at BPC.

In this episode, a discussion about the importance of immigration to maintaining American competitiveness; specifically, we’ll talk about the startup visa, currently in the House version of the COMPETES Act, and being negotiated as part of the Bipartisan Innovation Act. Dane Stangler, the Director of Strategic Initiatives at BPC, joins to discuss. BPC regular Theresa Brown then covers the immigration news of the last few weeks, focusing on the Summit of the Americas and Title 42 happenings. 

The leak of the Supreme Court draft decision that would overturn the seminal Roe v. Wade abortion case has sent shockwaves through the country and raises questions and implications for other long-standing precedent Supreme Court decisions, including Plyler v. Doe, a 1982 decision that ruled that undocumented immigrant children could not be excluded from K through 12 public schools. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has expressed interest in resurrecting the case and challenging the ruling. Leon Fresco, an immigration attorney at Holland & Knight, and Melissa Lazarin, Senior Advisor for K-12 Policy at the Migration Policy Institute’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, join to discuss this high-stakes court battle.   

With everything happening on Capitol Hill and in the news about Title 42, this episode, we’re welcoming Laura Collins, the Director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, Texas, along with This Week in Immigration regular Theresa Cardinal Brown to break down exactly what Title 42 is, what is going on at the border now, and how we might better be able to manage the border in the future. Laura's column: https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/opinion/2022/02/04/migration-playbook-changing-laura-collins-george-w-bush-institute/6653304001/ BPC's Redefining Border Security Report: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/redefining-border-security/

We’re spending this episode talking to Timothy Kane, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, about his new book, "The Immigrant Superpower: How Brains, Brawn, and Bravery Make America Stronger," which book argues that immigration is central to the United States’ economic power and national security. 

Theresa Cardinal Brown, Managing Director of BPC Immigration and Cross-Border Policy, starts off this episode by welcoming Casey Christine Higgins, BPC Immigration Fellow and Senior Counsel at Akin Gump, to discuss Title 42 and some of the legislative challenges its proposed takedown has raised. Theresa and host Hannah Tyler are then be joined by Dany Bahar, a professor at Brown and economist affiliated with Harvard and the Center for Global Development, among others, who joins to discuss his most recent papers on how immigrants spur innovation and contribute economically.

This week, we’re focusing on the immigration courts: specifically, the deep problems that we see in the immigration courts and attempts by some lawmakers to fix them. In the first half of the episode, we welcome Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of California to discuss her Real Courts, Rule of Law Act of 2022. Then we’ll be joined by Austin Kocher of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University and Greg Chen from the American Immigration Lawyers Association to discuss the current state of the immigration courts and why change is necessary.

In this week’s episode, host Hannah Tyler is joined by BPC Managing Director for Immigration and Cross-Border Policy Theresa Cardinal Brown for a “newsy” episode focused on the latest in immigration – discussing the new Bipartisan Border Technology Caucus in Congress, new border numbers and the new groups of people we’re seeing at the border, and the status of Title 42.

In this week’s episode, Theresa Cardinal Brown will be joined by Cris Ramon, Global and U.S. Immigration Policy Researcher and Analyst, to discuss how Europe is responding to the arrival of Ukrainian refugees. Also joining is Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, to talk about what policy avenues the United States has available to assist Ukrainians in the United States and those displaced because of this military action.  Links: How to Help Refugees — Aid, Relief and Donations | USA for UNHCR Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service  

In this week’s episode, we’re discussing immigration and the workforce. Theresa Cardinal Brown will be joined by Jason Fichtner, Vice President and Chief Economist at BPC, to give an overview of labor and workforce trends. Julia Gelatt, Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute will then join to discuss immigration’s specific impact on the workforce and labor trends.  

In this week’s episode, we’re discussing the U.S.-Mexico relationship, and how immigration factors into it. BPC's Director of Immigration and Cross-Border Policy Theresa Brown is joined by Ambassador Arturo Sarukhán, who served as Mexico’s ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2013 under President Felipe Calderon. 

We’re reviewing Biden’s first year in office, looking at the immigration issues he’s been faced with, and the policy decisions of his administration, and what we might expect in year two of his administration. Theresa Cardinal Brown is joined by three immigration advocates: Jorge Lima, Senior Vice President of Policy at Americans for Prosperity, Todd Schulte, President of FWD.us, and Kerri Talbot, Deputy Director of the Immigration Hub. 

In this week’s episode, we’re joined by BPC Fellow Casey Christine Higgins, Senior Counsel at Akin Gump and former Assistant for Policy and Trade Counsel for former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and This Week regular, Theresa Cardinal Brown to wrap up what happened (or didn’t) in immigration and in Congress at the end of last year and thinking about where things might go in 2022.  

For this final episode of 2021, we’re looking back at the big inflection points and emerging trends from this past year. Our guests this week are Suzanne Monyak, who covers immigration and Congress at CQ Roll Call, and Dara Lind, who covers immigration policy for ProPublica and is a regular co-host of Vox’s “The Weeds” podcast. They’ll discuss big immigration headlines, the Biden administration's record on immigration, and underlying trends and patterns that we should be looking for next year.