Unauthorized Immigration/Irregular Migration
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A Winding Path to Integration: Venezuelan Migrants’ Regularization and Labor Market Prospects
Regularization in Latin America for displaced Venezuelans has opened doors to jobs and services. But informality, weak enforcement, and short permits still limit their full integration.
Un camino sinuoso hacia la integración: Regularización de migrantes venezolanos y perspectivas del mercado laboral
La regularización ha abierto puertas en América Latina, pero la informalidad, los permisos breves y la débil aplicación de leyes aún limitan una integración sostenida.
Shifting Patterns and Policies Reshape Migration to U.S.-Mexico Border in Major Ways in 2023
There is a deeper story behind the U.S. government's fiscal 2023 border encounters numbers than that the year marked a new record high. The pivot from the pandemic-era Title 42 expulsions policy and sharp diversification in nationalities have reshaped migrant arrivals unlike any year before. This commentary goes beyond the headlines to focus on the more enduring—and challenging—realities occuring at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New York and Other U.S. Cities Struggle with High Costs of Migrant Arrivals
Record migrant arrivals have pushed U.S. cities to spend billions on shelter and services as federal aid falls far short and work authorization lags.
Inmigrantes cubanos en los Estados Unidos
La histórica emigración cubana de 2022 superó ampliamente a la crisis del Mariel y está transformando una comunidad arraigada en Estados Unidos, que se concentra principalmente en Florida.
How the Treacherous Darien Gap Became a Migration Crossroads of the Americas
The Darien Gap suddenly became a mass migration corridor, with an estimated 500,000 crossings in 2023 through the deadly jungle, which has claimed the lives of many migrants.
20th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
Experts examined the Biden administration's immigration actions, border policy, state actions, legal representation, humanitarian parole for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals, and other top issues in immigration policy.
Cuban Immigrants in the United States
Cuba's historic pace of emigration in 2022 far eclipsed the Mariel boatlift and is reshaping a long-established community in the United States, Florida in particular.
Green Reintegration: Supporting Returning Migrants in Climate-Affected Communities
Migrants returned to climate-affected areas represent an untapped adaptation resource, but only when reintegration programs link them to green jobs and local climate plans.
A Turning Point for the Unauthorized Immigrant Population in the United States
The unauthorized immigrant population in the United States stood at approximately 11.2 million people in mid-2021, with larger annual growth than at any point since 2015, according to MPI's latest estimates. Even as the Mexican unauthorized immigrant population continued its decade-long decline, there were new entrants from a growing array of other countries.
