This Week in Immigration

In this edition, Julie Stufft , deputy assistant secretary for visa services at the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the State Department, walks listeners through life in visa services. Joined by podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown , Stuff covers her career in the State Department, current challenges in visa services, and recent reports of State Department efforts to streamline visa applications f...

Having trouble keeping up with key immigration litigation? This latest episode of TWII has you covered with another edition of The Gavel! Joined by podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown , Cornell Law Professor Steve Yale-Loeher breaks down the Supreme Court's latest decision to uphold the Biden administration's deportation priorities in U.S. v. Texas . Then, both podcast guests walk listeners thr...

To mark graduation season, we're covering immigrants and higher education this episode. Miriam Feldblum , executive director of the Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, joins to discuss the Presidents' Alliance and the concerns of higher education institutions regarding immigrant students and scholars. Then, podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown provides an update on the bord...

Today, we sit down with Jon Baselice , vice president of immigration policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to discuss the Chamber's recently launched LIBERTY campaign which calls for both border and legal immigration reform. Then, as we start summer and all the activities that go along with it, podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown walks listeners through who seasonal workers are, the visa proc...

On today's episode, we examine the pause on nursing visa applications, overall health care workforce issues, and the impact of these challenges on the health care industry. Lisa Harootunian , BPC associate director of health policy, joins alongside "This Week" regular Theresa Cardinal Brown to break down the workforce shortage and how immigration can be part of the solution.

How do immigrants support U.S. competitiveness? On today's episode, we recap our latest event , "National Security and Competitiveness: Can Skilled Immigration Help?" with audio from the webinar. Our panel includes Kai Hirabayashi, senior manager of public policy at Amazon, Divanysh Kaushik, associate director at the Federation of American Scientists, Margaret Stock, attorney at Cascadia Cross-Bor...

We mark the end of tax season with a discussion on taxes and immigrants—do undocumented immigrants file taxes and, if so, how and why? We cover the consequences and challenges for undocumented immigrants who file and what policy changes have been proposed to address the issue. Then, we catch listeners up on the latest news in the immigration world, from the return to pre-pandemic levels of U.S. im...

On today's episode, we are joined by CBC reporter Verity Stevenson and podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown to discuss the Safe Third Country Agreement between the U.S. and Canada. We discuss what the policy is, how it's impacting migrants, and why it has elicited so much controversy as it awaits its fate in the Canadian court system.

On this week's episode, host Hanadi Jordan speaks with Theresa Cardinal Brown and BPC Action Managing Director Laura Hall about the president's budget, the budget and appropriations process and why it matters for immigration policy, as well as the details of what President Biden proposed for immigration. Is there a federal budget for "immigration" as a whole? What makes it so hard for Congress to...

On this week's episode Theresa Cardinal Brown fills in for Hanadi Jordan who is out this week.  We dive into the state of the American workforce and how immigration plays into it with Ben Gitis, the Bipartisan Policy Center's Associate Director for economic and workforce policy. We talk about a recent Morning Consult survey for BPC on high-skilled immigration, the latest jobs report from the Burea...

In today's edition of "This Week in Immigration," we catch listeners up on the latest news dominating the immigration space. Podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown addresses the removal of Title 42 from the Supreme Court's argument calendar and how the Biden administration has been prepping for the fall of the public health order. Then, we walk through the president's immigration comments during t...

On this Valentine's Day episode of This Week in Immigration we explore some of the immigration challenges faced by binational couples and their families both in the United States and in Mexico with Tran Dang of the Rhizome Center for Migrants and Tony Payan of the Rice University Baker Institute . Then we do a round of "fact or fiction" to tackle myths about getting a green card by marriage, many...

In this episode of This Week in Immigration we focus once again on the US-Mexico border.  First, Hanadi Jordan speaks with David Stout , a county commissioner from El Paso County Texas, and chair of the National Association of Counties' Immigration Reform Task Force to get the local perspective on the situation at the border, what counties like El Paso are doing to manage the arrivals of immigrant...

Happy New Year! This Week in Immigration starts off the new year by looking back at the lame duck Congress of 2022, and how immigration issues fared, and a brief look at what the long set of votes for Speaker of the House might mean for the prospects of immigration legislation in the new congress. We then chat with Christopher Sands of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Canada Institute about the North A...

In our annual year-end wrap-up, we are joined by Ellen Gilmer , senior reporter at Bloomberg Government , Michelle Hackman , reporter at the Wall Street Journal , Camilo Montoya-Galvez , reporter at CBS News , and podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown to break down this year's top immigration stories. We delve into Title 42, DACA, the courts' impact on immigration policy, Ukrainian refugees, migr...

In this week's special Thanksgiving episode, we continue our tradition of looking at this most American of holidays from the perspectives of new Americans. Theresa Cardinal Brown is joined by Anya McMurray, President and COO of Welcome. US, to talk about how America has welcomed diverse immigrants over the last two years, from Afghans, to Ukrainians, to Venezuelans, to the people of New York City...

In this week's episode, we're breaking down the midterms, and what they might mean for the issue of immigration. Theresa Cardinal Brown is joined by Laura Hall, the managing director of BPC Action, and Casey Christine Higgins, Senior Counsel at Akin Gump to chat about how the issue of immigration played in the midterms, what the election might signal about lame duck legislation on immigration, and...

In this week's episode, we discuss the Biden administration's new parole program for Venezuelans – the details of the program and who qualifies, the reasoning behind the program, how the dynamics at the border affect this program and possible future programs modeled after it, and how the program might inform the future of the resettlement regime.   Yael Schacher, Director for the Americas and Euro...

In this week's episode, we take the show on the road, recording live from the Un-Convention 2022 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Hannah Tyler and Theresa Cardinal Brown interview delegates at the Un-Convention to get their thoughts on immigration, and are joined by special guests John Wood Jr., a national leader for Braver Angels, Michael Steele, former Republican National Com...

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....

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 Doug las Holtz-Eakin,...

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: h...

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 S paces 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...

In this episode, we're   discussing the role o f 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 adj udicated during this term and how they are affecting the immigration system. We'll also cover DACA in the lower cou...