Steps to Fix the U.S. Immigration System: What Can the Administration Do?
MPI report release with authors MPI's Donald Kerwin, Margie McHugh, and Doris Meissner who engage in a discussion with Eva Millona, Executive Director, Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition; and Juan P. Osuna, Acting Director, Executive Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Department of Justice, on what the U.S. administration can do to fix immigration policy absent congressional action.
In the absence of federal legislation, the locus for policy action increasingly resides in the executive branch, intensifying the need for administrative policies, programs, and procedures that are effective and fair in advancing the core goals of the nation’s immigration system: promoting family unity; meeting legitimate labor market needs; offering protection from persecution; and awarding U.S. citizenship as an important step toward full incorporation into U.S. society. Achieving these goals depends on effective immigration enforcement that ensures border and national security, economic competitiveness, community safety, and a level playing field for American workers.
Speakers:
Donald Kerwin, Vice President for Programs, MPI
Margie McHugh, Co-Director, MPI National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy
Doris Meissner, Director of U.S. Immigration Policy Program and Senior Fellow, MPI
Eva Millona, Executive Director, Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
Juan P. Osuna, Acting Director, Executive Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Department of Justice
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.
Labor Markets Initiative
This concluded initiative, active from 2009-2013, produced detailed recommendations on ways to make U.S. immigration policy a more effective tool for economic growth.
