Enforcement & Borders

Children on the Frontlines

Children were at the center of global migration crises in 2018; in the United States, more than 2,600 were separated from parents under a “zero-tolerance” enforcement policy.

Pushback to the Resistance: Criminalization of Humanitarian Actors Aiding Migrants Rises

Hungary's "Stop Soros" law and prosecutions of volunteers in France and Arizona helping migrants marked a 2018 wave of criminal action against humanitarians.

Intensifying Focus on Migrant Returns Takes a More Global Stage

In 2018, migrant returns moved to the global stage, with multiple countries pushing contested repatriations that often returned people to harm.

How Latin America Is Responding to the Venezuelan Exodus

More than 3 million Venezuelans have fled in response to the deepening political and economic crisis in their country, and in this webinar experts from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru discuss the responses in these countries to the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of newcomers. They also discuss the prospects for future policy responses in the region.

Transnational Organized Crime Groups, Immigration, and Border Security: Connections, Distinctions, and Proposals for Effective Policy

Trump Administration’s Unprecedented Actions on Asylum at the Southern Border Hit Legal Roadblock

The Trump administration's November 2018 asylum ban barring asylum for migrants who crossed the border illegally was blocked by a federal judge.

Understanding the Policy Context for Migrant Return and Reintegration

In advance of the December 2018 adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration and its commitment to facilitate the return, readmission, and reintegration of migrants, this webinar examines the policies, practices, and contextual factors that make compulsory returns such a difficult issue for international cooperation, and the programs that are being implemented to make reintegration of returnees sustainable.

Sessions: The Trump Administration’s Once-Indispensable Man on Immigration

In under two years, Attorney General Jeff Sessions limited asylum, stripped immigration judges of key tools, and pushed the immigration court backlog past 1 million cases.

Asylum Reform, Not Troops, Is the Solution to Current Border Reality

Asylum reform, not the "shock-and-awe" deployment of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, represents the real path to addressing the current realities of mixed economic and humanitarian migration flows.

In Search of a New Equilibrium: Immigration Policymaking in the Newest Era of Nativist Populism

Nativist populism's most lasting impact is not electoral but indirect—reshaping immigration agendas and pulling mainstream parties to the right across liberal democracies.