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The Challenge of Coordinating Border Management Assistance between Europe and the Maghreb

Europe-Maghreb border cooperation on migration yields limited results; diverging priorities, corruption, and structural gaps require more strategic approaches.

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The Increasing Use of Artificial Intelligence in Border Zones Prompts Privacy Questions

Governments are rapidly deploying AI at borders, but regulation lags far behind, raising privacy and human-rights concerns.

Four Years of Profound Change: Immigration Policy during the Trump Presidency

President Donald Trump's administration completed 472 executive actions from 2017 to 2021, narrowing humanitarian protections and restricting legal immigration.

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Biden at One: Assessing the Administration’s Immigration Record

One year into President Joe Biden's term, this discussion examined the administration's track record on immigration and what lay ahead.

President Joe Biden looks at Executive Orders

Biden at the One-Year Mark: A Greater Change in Direction on Immigration Than Is Recognized

The Biden administration 's first year brought sweeping but underappreciated immigration changes even as border challenges remained unresolved.

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Immigration Has Been a Defining, Often Contentious, Element Throughout U.S. History

Largely unchanged since 1965, the U.S. immigration system is buckling under record backlogs, enforcement costs, and deepening partisan gridlock.

A Dutch family at Ellis Island between 1915 and 1920.

Court-Ordered Relaunch of Remain in Mexico Policy Tweaks Predecessor Program, but Faces Similar Challenges

The court-ordered revival of Remain in Mexico for certain asylum seekers affects a Trump-era program with a troubled record.

Migrants enrolled in the Migrant Protection Protocols are processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers.

Thinking Regionally to Act Locally in Immigration Policy

Mexico is becoming a country of immigration, Central America a region of transit, and South America is improvising; what does a regional migration system look like?

South Africa Reckons with Its Status as a Top Immigration Destination, Apartheid History, and Economic Challenges

Africa's top immigrant destination, South Africa struggles to balance regional migration demands against high unemployment, xenophobia, and an asylum system that rejects most cases.

Two boys pose in an informal settlement east of Johannesburg largely populated by immigrants.

U.S. Immigration Reform Denied: Destined to Repeat the Cycle of Failure?

Immigration reform failed in 2006, 2007, and 2013—so what would it take to break the cycle?