CMSOnAir

CMSOnAir features an interview with Ron Nixon, a Washington correspondent for the New York Times who covers homeland security issues. Mr. Nixon has reported from Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Belgium, Mexico, Malaysia, Senegal, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He also teaches investigative reporting and data journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa...

Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ discusses, “Barriers to Protection: The Treatment of Asylum Seekers in Expedited Removal,” a report from the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Appointed to USCIRF in 2014, Fr. Reese now serves as chair of this independent, bipartisan US federal government commission that reviews the facts and circumstances of religious freedom violations and makes poli...

Cecilia Muñoz, Assistant to President Barack Obama and Director of the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, joins CMSOnAir to reflect on the Administration’s efforts on immigration during the past eight years. She offers a candid assessment of the major immigration and refugee issues and challenges the Administration faced, from legislative reform to Executive action to immigration enforcement a...

In this episode of CMSOnAir, Linda Rabben, Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland discusses her work studying the history of sanctuary and sanctuary movements. Her research has just been published in a second edition of her book, Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History (University of Washington Press 2016).

A few days before the 15th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) is releasing a new in-depth report examining refugee protection and national security. The paper, titled “How Robust Refugee Protection Policies Can Strengthen Human and National Security,” is part of a special collection of CMS’s Journal on Migration and Human Securit...

In this podcast, CMS’s Executive Director Donald Kerwin speaks with Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), on the intersection between international migration, refugee protection and national security. Secretary Chertoff discusses the lessons learned from 9/11 terrorist attacks, the security of the US refugee resettlement and visa waiver programs, propo...

Senator Charles E. Schumer is the Senior US Senator for the State of New York. Elected to the US Senate in 1998, Senator Schumer has been instrumental in furthering comprehensive immigration reform legislation. He was involved in the immigration reform debates in Congress in 2006 and 2007, and he currently sits on the Judiciary Committee, where he is Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigrati...

In the second of the two-part CMSOnAir series, “Shaping a Nation: The Past and Present Struggles Over Immigration,” the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) speaks with Sara Campos, a writer and immigrant rights lawyer formerly with the Northern California Immigrant Rights Coalition. Ms. Campos is the author of “The Influence of Civil Society in US Immigrant Communities and the US Immigr...

Europe and the United States are increasingly experiencing anti-immigrant backlash. Some candidates for the US presidency, for example, are campaigning on platforms that would include severe restrictions on immigration to the United States as well as a complete ban of Muslim immigrants. In the first of a two-part CMSOnAir series, “Shaping a Nation: The Past and Present Struggles Over Immigration,"...

On January 1, 2016, Kevin Appleby joined the Center for Migration Studies of New York and our umbrella organization, the Scalabrini International Migration Network, as Senior Director of International Migration Policy. In this episode, Rachel Reyes, CMS's Director of Communications, speaks with Kevin about his new role and some of the migration and refugee issues at the forefront in today's news.

On July 15, 2015, the Center for Migration Studies of New York hosted a nationwide teleconference and stakeholder roundtable with Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman Maria M. Odom and Chief of Policy Elissa McGovern. In this episode, we share their presentation on the office’s 2015 annual report to Congress and their conversation with CMS Executive Dire...

Martin Xuereb and Rescuing Migrants in the Mediterranean by Center for Migration Studies of New York

Pelenise Alofa and Climate Change Migration by Center for Migration Studies of New York