14th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
Missed the annual conference? Audio and video of the discussions by top experts of shifting immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, to policy changes regarding refugee resettlement, treatment of unaccompanied minors, Temporary Protected Status, DACA, and more are available here.
With immigration one of the most dynamic policy areas in the Trump administration, this year’s Immigration Law and Policy Conference offered an excellent opportunity to go beyond the headlines. The 14th annual conference, organized by MPI, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., and Georgetown University Law Center, offered timely policy and legal analysis and discussion on immigration. Our experts examined sweeping changes to enforcement at the border and in the U.S. interior, legal challenges to executive orders, changes to refugee resettlement, and possible reform of the legal immigration system, among other topics.
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AGENDA
9:10 to 10:30 a.m. A New Age: Immigration Policy Under a New Administration |
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Doris Meissner |
Elaine C. Kamarck |
Arturo Sarukhan
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C. Stewart Verdery, Jr. |
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| 11:00 a.m to 12:20 p.m. Humanitarian Relief Under Threat Across the Board More than one million people in the United States receive temporary forms of humanitarian relief. Additionally, each year, tens of thousands are granted asylum or admitted as refugees. Today these protections are at risk. The administration has sought to temporarily halt refugee admissions and reduce the number of refugee admissions to less than half of the prior level. Other forms of humanitarian relief, including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Temporary Protected Status (TPS), are under threat from the administration, the courts, and Congress. This panel explores the current state of humanitarian relief and the implications of the administration's policy decisions for the most vulnerable immigrants, including refugees, TPS recipients, and children. |
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Jeanne M. Atkinson |
Alejandro Celorio Alcántara |
Mark Hetfield |
Wendy Young |
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| 2:00 to 3:20 p.m. Mapping Fast-Changing Trends in Immigration Enforcement and Detention During the first six months of the Trump administration, arrests of noncitizens identified for removal rose nearly 40 percent over the same period a year earlier. At the border, apprehensions fell by nearly 50 percent from the first half of 2016, as fewer people sought to enter without authorization. And the White House announced plans to seek funding for thousands of Border Patrol agents and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, and build new immigrant detention facilities. This panel delves into the many immigration law enforcement and detention policy changes that have been occurring under the Trump administration. |
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Andrew I. Schoenholtz |
Philip Miller |
Marc Rosenblum |
Cecillia Wang |
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| 3:40 to 5:00 p.m. A Standoff on Immigration Enforcement: Federal vs. Local, State vs. State, State vs. Local In a highly polarized atmosphere on immigration where federal lawmakers are largely paralyzed on policy change, states and localities in recent years have increasingly taken on a larger role in challenging Washington’s immigration authority. With the Trump administration focused on cracking down on “sanctuary” cities and enticing law enforcement agencies to take a greater role in immigration enforcement, politicians and policymakers in communities across the United States are lining up on opposing sides of the issue. Even as some states and cities are declaring themselves sanctuaries, others are rushing to bar jurisdictions from noncooperation with federal immigration authorities. In this panel, speakers examine the growing patchwork of stances on immigration from states, counties, cities, and even universities and local school boards; what is driving the pattern of increasingly active and litigious states in the immigration space; what the legal landscape is for state/local action; and how the administration may seek to further engage state and local jurisdictions in immigration enforcement. |
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Muzaffar Chishti |
Daron Hall |
J. Thomas Manger |
Hiroshi Motomura |
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About the U.S. Immigration Policy Program
The U.S. Immigration Policy Program provides analysis of U.S. immigration pathways, the impacts of enforcement and other policies, and the characteristics of immigrant populations.
