Unauthorized Immigration/Irregular Migration
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17th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
This year’s Immigration Law and Policy Conference examines the immigration policy agenda under the Trump administration, including changes in the asylum system; the vast societal upheaval brought on by COVID-19 and the rising racial justice movement; what the future of U.S. immigration may look like; and many other topics in advance of a consequential general election that offers starkly different choices with respect to U.S. immigration policy.
The U.S. Immigration Policymaker-in-Chief: The Long History of Executive Authority over Immigration
This discussion examines the long tradition of the U.S. president as immigration policymaker in chief, the Trump administration’s substantial use of executive power to change the country’s course on immigration, and how the president’s role in immigration policy is a inevitability that should be carefully considered and reimagined in any blueprint for immigration reform or strategy for activism on immigration.
Gaps in India’s Treatment of Refugees and Vulnerable Internal Migrants Are Exposed by the Pandemic
India's COVID-19 lockdown exposed deep policy challenges for millions of internal migrants and 250,000 refugees and asylum seekers.
Immigration Enforcement and the Mental Health of Latino High School Students
Surveys of Latino high school students in 2018–19 found widespread enforcement fears, with more than half meeting clinical thresholds for anxiety, PTSD, or depression.
Once a Destination for Migrants, Post-Gaddafi Libya Has Gone from Transit Route to Containment
Europe's outsourcing of migration controls to Libya has reduced sea arrivals dramatically, at the cost of trapping hundreds of thousands of migrants in abusive and often dangerous conditions.
COVID-19 Pandemic Profoundly Affects Bangladeshi Workers Abroad with Consequences for Origin Communities
The 4.2 million Bangladeshi workers in the Gulf—and the families who depend on them—faced severe hardship as COVID-19 triggered mass job loss, deportations, and falling remittances.
Dismantling and Reconstructing the U.S. Immigration System: A Catalog of Changes under the Trump Presidency
The Trump administration took more than 400 immigration executive actions during its first term, curtailing legal and unauthorized immigration and dismantling humanitarian protections.
Millions of U.S. Citizens Could Be Excluded under Trump Plan to Remove Unauthorized Immigrants from Census Data
The Trump administration's plan to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the 2020 Census data used to reapportion 435 congressional seats among the 50 states could misclassify as many as 20 million U.S. citizens, as the result of expected data-matching errors. The effects of this exclusion could be most pronounced in low-income urban and rural communities, reducing their voting power relative to more affluent ones, as this commentary explains.
Rethinking and Restarting: What should the returns process look like post-pandemic?
As countries begin to plan for what restaring return operations might look like post-pandemic, this MPI Europe webinar, the first in a series on returns and reintegration, focused on the counselling of (potential) returnees to increase the uptake of voluntary return.
Mientras Crece el Movimiento para Desfinanciar a la Policía en EUA, el Gasto y las Prácticas de las Autoridades de Inmigración también se Someten a Escrutinio
El gasto en control de la inmigración en EE. UU. supera al de todas las principales agencias federales de lucha contra la delincuencia juntas, pero la rendición de cuentas, la supervisión y la transparencia no han avanzado al mismo ritmo que su espectacular crecimiento.
