Unauthorized Immigration/Irregular Migration
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The Nascent Architecture for Managing U.S. Border Arrivals Shows Promise
While unauthorized crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have plummeted in 2024, improving on these results requires immigration strategies that go far beyond the border. A new architecture for managing migration implemented over the past three years is fragile but holds promise and represents a necessary direction, this commentary argues.
With New Strategies At and Beyond the U.S. Border, Migrant Encounters Plunge
Encounters of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border for fiscal 2024 fell to 2.1 million, a 14 percent drop from the prior year as the result of the Biden administration deepening its carrot-and-stick approach alongside increased immigration enforcement throughout the Western Hemisphere, especially from Mexico. September represented the lowest monthly encounters of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization seen during this administration.
21st Annual Immigration Law & Policy Conference
Featuring keynotes by IOM Director General Amy Pope, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, this conference examined competing U.S. immigration narratives, the global smuggling economy, immigration executive orders and litigation, and more.
Despite Sharply Different Immigration Rhetoric, Democrats and Republicans Now Have a Similar Approach to the Border
Three years of record border arrivals pushed Democrats toward Republican-style enforcement rhetoric, but deep divisions between the political parties remain over deportations and legal immigration.
Germany, and Maybe the European Union, Are at a Migration Crossroads
Germany's reinstatement of border controls with its nine neighbors runs the risk of creating a chain reaction, with other EU Member States following suit. In the process, this go-it-alone approach could pose a serious threat to the Schengen free movement zone as well as put the common European asylum system at risk, as this MPI Europe commentary explains.
Turkey Aims to Halt Irregular Migration and Migrant Smuggling in the Eastern Mediterranean
Turkey sits at the crossroads of busy irregular migration routes, where criminal smuggling networks profit from movement that neither border walls nor EU deals have stopped.
Trapped by Italy’s Policy Paradox, Asylum Seekers and Other Migrants Can Fall into Exploitative Farm Labor
EU rules can trap asylum seekers in Italy, where restrictive policies and an agriculture sector reliant on unauthorized labor push many into exploitative networks.
Inmigrantes de la República Dominicana en Estados Unidos
Los inmigrantes dominicanos constituyen uno de los grupos de origen extranjero con mayor crecimiento en Estados Unidos, y casi todos los que poseen una tarjeta de residencia llegan a través de vínculos familiares
Immigrants from the Dominican Republic in the United States
Dominican immigrants are one of the fastest-growing U.S. foreign-born groups, and nearly all who hold a green card arrive through family ties.
U.S. Legal Pathways for Mexican and Central American Immigrants, by the Numbers
Family ties, H-2 seasonal work visas, and humanitarian parole are the main U.S. legal pathways for Mexican and Central American immigrants.
