This Week in Immigration

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 Rese...

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 immigrat...

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...

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 b...

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 affi...

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 Syra...

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 Ukrai...

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,...

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...

In this week's episode, host Blake Johnson is joined by Theresa Cardinal Brown to discuss the most recent immigration news, including travel restrictions related to the latest COVID variant, the status of immigration in reconciliation on Capitol Hill, and the restart of the Remain in Mexico policy. Then, BPC Fall Immigration Intern, Edvin Morales, joins to talk about the evolving politics of langu...

Every year millions of families across the country gather to celebrate that quintessential American holiday: Thanksgiving. It is a story of immigration. But how do the millions of recently-arrived immigrants to this country view this holiday? For this week's episode, Theresa Cardinal Brown and Sadikshya Nepal are joined by Rachel Peric, Executive Director of Welcoming America, and several BPC staf...

In October, Customs and Border Protection released its official migrant numbers for fiscal year 2021 where reports showed U.S. authorities had detained migrants more than 1.7 million times along the border. In this week's episode Theresa Cardinal Brown is joined by Anna Giaritelli, Valerie Gonzalez, and Angela Kocherga, a panel of journalists with years of experience covering the border, migration...

On this week's episode, Theresa Cardinal Brown is joined by guests Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of U.S. Immigration Policy at the Migration Policy Institute, and Ruth Wasem, BPC Fellow and Professor of Public Policy Practice at the University of Texas at Austin to discuss their new MPI report entitled "Toward A Better Immigration System: Fixing Immigration Governance at the U.S. Depa...

In this week's episode we  are joined by BPC regular Theresa  Cardinal  Brown  with a closer look at the U.S.-Mexico bilateral relationship and its impact on immigration and border policy . Then, w e  feature  an extended  segment of The  Gavel where we will discuss the  recent litigation and case developments  surrounding  the Migration Protection Protocols ;  the   Title 42 order ;  and Mexico's...

This week's episode will cover the S enate parliamentarian ruling on immigration, the  unfolding Haitian migrant  emergency  on our Southern border,  and  the  new ly   proposed  federal regulation  on  DACA. But first, a  special guest interview with BPC 's Senior Vice President, Bil l  Hoagland,  to  help  us  understand  the history of   the Budget Reconciliation process  and the Byrd Rule .  

On this episode, BPC Director of Immigration and Cross-Border Policy Theresa Cardinal Brown joins to reflect on how 9/11 shaped the American immigration system. Later, BPC Immigration Fellow Sadikshya Nepal, and BPC Action Managing Director Laura Hall join to review  the  Democrats immigration reform plan meant to be included in the reconciliation package. 

This week  we'll get  an update on the situation with the Afghan refugees   and  the history of  Special Immigrant   V isas, f eaturing BPC Fellow Ruth Wasem .  Then, we talk about  the  State Department 's  visa backlogs and  the risk  wasting up to 100,000  green cards this year . A nd  finally,  a super-sized segment of  the  Gavel .  

BPC regulars Theresa Brown and  Sadikshya  Nepal  discuss the  unfolding  refugee crisis in Afghanistan, the July border  numbers , the new  court  ruling on  the  Migrant Protection Protocol s   program in  Texas,  new  confirmation s  of officials to USCIS and ICE , and  finally a  brief  progress  update on   Democrats '   b udget reconciliation   package  in Congress.

It's officially episode 100 and we're celebrating with some return guests and highlights. We'll also touch on developments from the Biden administration: their new blueprint to address root causes of Central American migration and the indefinite extension of the Title 42 public health order, so stick around.   What To Know on Immigration: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/podcast/what-to-know-on-immigr...

On this week's episode,  we begin with the Biden administration's recent policy changes for H-1B visa petitions and what it means for the adjudication process within the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency. Then we break-down CBP's June report on encounters at the southwest border and the Texas district court's decision against the DACA program.