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Chilling Effects: The Expected Public-Charge Rule and Its Impact on Immigrant Families

MPI experts discuss an expected Trump administration public-charge rule that could have wide-reaching effects on the ability of immigrants legally present in the country to get a green card as well as who could qualify to enter the United States. The webinar focuses on an MPI report assessing how the proposed rule could affect future benefits usage by immigrants and their U.S.-citizen children.

Canadian Immigrants in the United States

Canadians account for a declining share of all U.S. immigrants. They do have above-average education, high incomes, and near-average naturalization as compared to other immigrants.

Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together

Mexico's economic and cultural transformation has created deep, mutually beneficial interdependencies with the United States that no border wall can undo, this book by MPI’s president argues.

Chilling Effects: The Expected Public Charge Rule and Its Impact on Legal Immigrant Families’ Public Benefits Use

The proposed 2018 public-charge rule would affect 47 percent of noncitizens, according to MPI analysis, producing chilling effects on benefits use and reshaping legal immigration.

A Matter of Design: English Learner Program Models in K-12 Education

English Learner (EL) program models in U.S. K-12 schools vary widely, and understanding their design features is essential for stakeholders working to close EL achievement gaps.

Crisis at the Border? Not by the Numbers

Despite the declaration of crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, May 2018 apprehensions matched levels from 2013 to 2016, as flows shifted toward families and asylum seekers.

House Bills Would Largely Dismantle Asylum System at U.S.-Mexico Border

Two 2018 House Republican bills would sharply curtail the U.S. asylum system by declaring Mexico a safe third country and eliminating protections for unaccompanied minors.

A Narrower Path in the House for Most DREAMers

Covering fewer Dreamers than Senate proposals, a pair of 2018 House bills would protect anywhere from 590,000 to 1.25 million young unauthorized immigrants, MPI estimates.

Far from a Retreat, the Trump Administration’s Border Policies Advance its Enforcement Aims

President Donald Trump's June 2018 order ending family separation advanced a broader strategy to detain all asylum-seeking families and narrow credible-fear claim grounds.

In Search of Safety, Growing Numbers of Women Flee Central America

Women from Central America face femicide and forced gang recruitment, and receive inadequate protection in the United States and upon return home.

A woman walks alongside a train in Mexico.