The New Immigration Regime: Restrictions, Outcomes, and What’s Next
Join experts from Cornell Law's Migration and Human Rights Program as they examine the Trump administration's extensive 2025 immigration restrictions—including mass deportations, visa limitations, asylum restrictions, and enforcement operations—while outlining the program's advocacy efforts and ways for individuals to support immigrants.
Cornell Keynotes · Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, Dan Berger, Theresa Cardinal Brown, Michelle Brané
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Show Notes
The Migration and Human Rights Program @Cornell Law School
The Immigration Law and Advocacy Clinic @Cornell Law School
Immigration was a top priority in 2025 for President Trump. The administration has restricted immigration in many ways, ranging from travel bans to mass deportations. The White House has stated that the United States may have negative net migration to the U.S. in 2025 for the first time in over 50 years.
In the meantime, employers face labor shortages. The demographics of an aging population and declining birth rates are indisputable. More people worldwide are fleeing the breakdown of civil society, climate change, and persecution than ever before. Over 10 million people in the United States lack immigration status and fear deportation. And our immigration courts face a backlog of over 3 million deportation cases.
Join retired Cornell Law professor Stephen Yale-Loehr and a panel of Cornell experts as they discuss how immigration law and policy changed in 2025 and what we might expect in 2026.
What You’ll Learn:
- What changes to the immigration system the Trump administration made in 2025
- The impact of those changes on communities, the economy, and immigration law
- What legal challenges these policies have faced and where those legal challenges stand
- What immigration changes might occur in 2026 by the Trump administration and/or Congress
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