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The Changing Landscape of Interior Immigration Enforcement Under Trump
Marking the release of an MPI study, this discussion examines the operation of today’s interior enforcement system and how state and local governments, civil society, and consulates are responding.
Profiting from Enforcement: The Role of Private Prisons in U.S. Immigration Detention
CoreCivic and GEO Group manage more than half of all U.S. private prison contracts and earned combined revenues exceeding $4 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2017.
A Guide to Finding and Understanding English Learner Data
English Learner data are widely accessible, but users risk misinterpretation without understanding state variation in definitions, counting, and privacy constraints.
Revving Up the Deportation Machinery: Enforcement under Trump and the Pushback
Interior immigration arrests rose 42 percent during Donald Trump's first eight months, but “sanctuary” policies limited enforcement and created uneven outcomes nationwide.
National Guard Heads to Southern Border Amid Differing Reality from Earlier Deployments
President Donald Trump's April 2018 call to deploy up to 4,000 National Guard troops at the U.S.-Mexico border marked a significant departure from past practice.
Responding to Early Childhood Education and Care Needs of Children of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Europe and North America
Marking the release of an MPI report, this webinar examines the challenges and successes major host countries in Europe and North America are experiencing in providing high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for children from refugee and asylum seeker families.
Dominican Immigrants in the United States
The nearly 1.1 million Dominican immigrants in the United States in 2016 were concentrated in New York, New Jersey, and Florida.
Family Immigration Policy and Trends: How the United States Compares to Other Countries
On this webinar, MPI analysts compare U.S. policy on family migration to those in Canada as well as Australia, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. This webinar features the findings of an issue brief, focused on these countries' trends and data on immigrant admissions, along with a data tool modeling possible cuts to U.S. legal immigration.
A Two-Way Street: How Immigration Shapes Everyday Life in Silicon Valley
Immigrants were 37 percent of the population in Silicon Valley in 2010, nearly triple the national average and deeply shaping—and being shaped by—the region.
It’s Relative: A Crosscountry Comparison of Family-Migration Policies and Flows
Family admissions dominate immigration across all nine countries studied, and backlogs of up to 30 years show that formal reunification rights often fail in practice.
