This Week in Immigration

In this edition, Julie Stufft, deputy assistant secretary for visa services at the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the State Department, walks listeners through life in visa services. Joined by podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown, Stuff covers her career in the State Department, current challenges in visa services, and recent reports of State Department efforts to streamline visa applications for Indian nationals.

Having trouble keeping up with key immigration litigation? This latest episode of TWII has you covered with another edition of The Gavel! Joined by podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown, Cornell Law Professor Steve Yale-Loeher breaks down the Supreme Court's latest decision to uphold the Biden administration's deportation priorities in U.S. v. Texas. Then, both podcast guests walk listeners through upcoming cases concerning the future of the DACA program and the administration's new asylum restrictions.

To mark graduation season, we're covering immigrants and higher education this episode. Miriam Feldblum, executive director of the Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, joins to discuss the Presidents' Alliance and the concerns of higher education institutions regarding immigrant students and scholars. Then, podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown provides an update on the border post-Title 42, and why the numbers of encounters aren't what many predicted.

Today, we sit down with Jon Baselice, vice president of immigration policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to discuss the Chamber's recently launched LIBERTY campaign which calls for both border and legal immigration reform. Then, as we start summer and all the activities that go along with it, podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown walks listeners through who seasonal workers are, the visa process these workers rely on, and challenges in meeting the workforce needs of seasonal employers.

On today's episode, we examine the pause on nursing visa applications, overall health care workforce issues, and the impact of these challenges on the health care industry. Lisa Harootunian, BPC associate director of health policy, joins alongside "This Week" regular Theresa Cardinal Brown to break down the workforce shortage and how immigration can be part of the solution.

How do immigrants support U.S. competitiveness? On today's episode, we recap our latest event, "National Security and Competitiveness: Can Skilled Immigration Help?" with audio from the webinar. Our panel includes Kai Hirabayashi, senior manager of public policy at Amazon, Divanysh Kaushik, associate director at the Federation of American Scientists, Margaret Stock, attorney at Cascadia Cross-Border Law Group, and BPC's Dane Stangler, director of strategic initiatives.

We mark the end of tax season with a discussion on taxes and immigrants—do undocumented immigrants file taxes and, if so, how and why? We cover the consequences and challenges for undocumented immigrants who file and what policy changes have been proposed to address the issue. Then, we catch listeners up on the latest news in the immigration world, from the return to pre-pandemic levels of U.S. immigration to new border bills from House Republicans to the impending expiration of Title 42.

On today's episode, we are joined by CBC reporter Verity Stevenson and podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown to discuss the Safe Third Country Agreement between the U.S. and Canada. We discuss what the policy is, how it's impacting migrants, and why it has elicited so much controversy as it awaits its fate in the Canadian court system.

On this week's episode, host Hanadi Jordan speaks with Theresa Cardinal Brown and BPC Action Managing Director Laura Hall about the president's budget, the budget and appropriations process and why it matters for immigration policy, as well as the details of what President Biden proposed for immigration. Is there a federal budget for "immigration" as a whole? What makes it so hard for Congress to pass the federal budget on time? And will the divided Congress support President Biden's immigration priorities? Theresa and Laura break it all down.

On this week's episode Theresa Cardinal Brown fills in for Hanadi Jordan who is out this week. We dive into the state of the American workforce and how immigration plays into it with Ben Gitis, the Bipartisan Policy Center's Associate Director for economic and workforce policy. We talk about a recent Morning Consult survey for BPC on high-skilled immigration, the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the state of employment, unemployment and how we define labor shortages. We also talk about immigrants in the labor force, high-skilled and lesser skilled immigration, and what may be keeping immigrants and Americans from getting back into the labor market post-COVID.

In today's edition of "This Week in Immigration," we catch listeners up on the latest news dominating the immigration space. Podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown addresses the removal of Title 42 from the Supreme Court's argument calendar and how the Biden administration has been prepping for the fall of the public health order. Then, we walk through the president's immigration comments during the State of the Union address and immigration bills floating through the halls of Congress.

On this Valentine's Day episode of This Week in Immigration we explore some of the immigration challenges faced by binational couples and their families both in the United States and in Mexico with Tran Dang of the Rhizome Center for Migrants and Tony Payan of the Rice University Baker Institute. Then we do a round of "fact or fiction" to tackle myths about getting a green card by marriage, many of which have been part of Hollywood films such as The Proposal and Green Card. Joining us in this myth busting exercise is Jeremy McKinney, the current elected president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

In this episode of This Week in Immigration we focus once again on the US-Mexico border. First, Hanadi Jordan speaks with David Stout, a county commissioner from El Paso County Texas, and chair of the National Association of Counties' Immigration Reform Task Force to get the local perspective on the situation at the border, what counties like El Paso are doing to manage the arrivals of immigrants, the recent visits to El Paso of President Biden and a bipartisan group of Senators and what he thinks needs to be done. Next, Theresa Cardinal Brown interviews Andrew Selee, President of the Migration Policy Institute about the issue of migration in the hemisphere, US-Mexico cooperation at the North American Leader's Summit and what else needs to be done to manage what is an increasingly complex issue for all the countries of Latin America. This episode was recorded on January 20 and January 24, 2023. Follow @BPC_Bipartisan on Twitter, and see more of our work at www.bipartisanpolicy.org/immigration .

Happy New Year! This Week in Immigration starts off the new year by looking back at the lame duck Congress of 2022, and how immigration issues fared, and a brief look at what the long set of votes for Speaker of the House might mean for the prospects of immigration legislation in the new congress. We then chat with Christopher Sands of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Canada Institute about the North American Leaders Summit between Canada, Mexico and the United States, immigration issues between Canada and the U.S. and what Canada might do to assist with the challenge of migration in the hemisphere. We also welcome new TWII host, Hanadi Jordan to the podcast. This episode was recorded on January 11, 2023.

In our annual year-end wrap-up, we are joined by Ellen Gilmer, senior reporter at Bloomberg Government, Michelle Hackman, reporter at the Wall Street Journal, Camilo Montoya-Galvez, reporter at CBS News, and podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown to break down this year's top immigration stories. We delve into Title 42, DACA, the courts' impact on immigration policy, Ukrainian refugees, migrant busing, and more. A note for listeners: this episode was recorded on December 7, 2022.

In this week's special Thanksgiving episode, we continue our tradition of looking at this most American of holidays from the perspectives of new Americans. Theresa Cardinal Brown is joined by Anya McMurray, President and COO of Welcome.US, to talk about how America has welcomed diverse immigrants over the last two years, from Afghans, to Ukrainians, to Venezuelans, to the people of New York City and Martha's Vineyard who welcomed migrants bussed there from the border. Then, we welcome Lucija Bebek, BPC's spring immigration intern, who shares her own immigrant Thanksgiving story. If you are interested in the work of welcome.us, please find their website here: https://welcome.us/. This podcast can also be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

In this week's episode, we're breaking down the midterms, and what they might mean for the issue of immigration. Theresa Cardinal Brown is joined by Laura Hall, the managing director of BPC Action, and Casey Christine Higgins, Senior Counsel at Akin Gump to chat about how the issue of immigration played in the midterms, what the election might signal about lame duck legislation on immigration, and how the next Congress might approach immigration. The episode was recorded on Wednesday, November 9, before all the races had been called, so we explored multiple different scenarios of House and Senate control and their impact on possible immigration legislation.

In this week's episode, we discuss the Biden administration's new parole program for Venezuelans – the details of the program and who qualifies, the reasoning behind the program, how the dynamics at the border affect this program and possible future programs modeled after it, and how the program might inform the future of the resettlement regime. Yael Schacher, Director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International, Matthew La Corte, Government Affairs Manager for Immigration Policy at the Niskanen Center, and Theresa Brown, This Week in Immigration regular, join to discuss. This podcast can also be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Want to listen to more podcasts focused on immigration? You can find all episodes here.

In this week's episode, we take the show on the road, recording live from the Un-Convention 2022 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Hannah Tyler and Theresa Cardinal Brown interview delegates at the Un-Convention to get their thoughts on immigration, and are joined by special guests John Wood Jr., a national leader for Braver Angels, Michael Steele, former Republican National Committee chair and Maryland Lieutenant Governor, and Nick Troiano, Executive Director of Unite America. John talks about how to have more constructive conversations about controversial topics like immigration; Michael discusses how much has changed for Republicans on the issue of immigration in the last decade; and Nick shares his thoughts on how to address the growing partisan divide on immigration. The Un-Convention Un-Convention 2022 (full video) DACA Episode This podcast can also be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Want to listen to more podcasts focused on immigration? You can find all episodes here.

In this week's episode, we're going across the pond to talk about the United Kingdom's approach to immigration, and how that approach might change with the election of a new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, the appointment of a new Cabinet, and the sad news of the Queen's passing. We'll welcome three guests – Liz Mair, a British-American political and communications consultant; Cris Ramón, Global and U.S. Immigration Policy Researcher and Analyst; and Matt Dathan, Home Affairs Editor at The Times UK.

In this week's episode, we're focusing on immigration and the workforce, specifically the role that legal immigration reform can play in reshaping our nation's workforce in the short- and long-term. Theresa Cardinal Brown, BPC's Managing Director of Immigration and Cross-border Policy, will be joined by Ben Gitis, Associate Director of the Economic Policy Project at BPC, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President of the American Action Forum.

In this week's episode, BPC's Director of Migration and Cross-Border Policy, Theresa Cardinal Brown, joins for a "newsy" episode focused on the latest in immigration. We'll highlight some of the major happenings in the immigration world, including the end of MPP, high-skilled immigration and the CHIPS ACT, the collapse of the legal immigration system, and child separation. Discussed on the show: https://borderlines.substack.com/p/immigration-system-creaks-under-its?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-immigration/670604/

On this episode of This Week in Immigration, we're re-releasing a conversation between BPC's Director of Immigration and Cross-Border Policy Theresa Cardinal Brown and Ambassador Arturo Sarukhán, who served as Mexico's ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2013 under President Felipe Calderon.

In this episode, we're sharing snippets from our recent Twitter Spaces discussion, "Real Solutions for the Border," that discussed bipartisan solutions to address the situation at the border. Michelle Hackman, an immigration reporter at The Wall Street Journal, moderated the discussion. The panelists included Cris Ramón, Global and U.S. Immigration Policy Researcher and Analyst; Laura Collins, Director at the Bush Institute- SMU Economic Growth Initiative; Danilo Zak, Policy & Advocacy Manger at the National Immigration Forum, and Theresa Cardinal Brown, managing director of immigration and cross-border policy at BPC.

In this episode, we're discussing the role of the Supreme Court in shaping immigration policy with Theresa Cardinal Brown and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Policy Director at the American Immigration Council. Specifically, we'll highlight some the major Supreme Court cases that were adjudicated during this term and how they are affecting the immigration system. We'll also cover DACA in the lower court focusing on what we might see if DACA is overturned.

In this episode, we're sharing highlights from our June 13 webinar that discussed our most recent report, "Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Economic Potential and Obstacles to Success." The report and accompanying webinar examine who immigrant entrepreneurs are, what types of businesses they start, and what obstacles they face. The panelists included Cris Ramón, Global and U.S. Immigration Policy Researcher and Analyst; Christina da Silva, Welcoming Communities and Immigrant Affairs Officer at the City of Dallas; Dane Stangler, Director of Strategic Initiatives at BPC; and Adrian Bota, co-founder and CEO of Origin Milk and an immigrant entrepreneur. The event was moderated by Theresa Cardinal Brown, Managing Director of Immigration and Cross-Border Policy at BPC.

In this episode, a discussion about the importance of immigration to maintaining American competitiveness; specifically, we'll talk about the startup visa, currently in the House version of the COMPETES Act, and being negotiated as part of the Bipartisan Innovation Act. Dane Stangler, the Director of Strategic Initiatives at BPC, joins to discuss. BPC regular Theresa Brown then covers the immigration news of the last few weeks, focusing on the Summit of the Americas and Title 42 happenings.

The leak of the Supreme Court draft decision that would overturn the seminal Roe v. Wade abortion case has sent shockwaves through the country and raises questions and implications for other long-standing precedent Supreme Court decisions, including Plyler v. Doe, a 1982 decision that ruled that undocumented immigrant children could not be excluded from K through 12 public schools. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has expressed interest in resurrecting the case and challenging the ruling. Leon Fresco, an immigration attorney at Holland & Knight, and Melissa Lazarin, Senior Advisor for K-12 Policy at the Migration Policy Institute's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, join to discuss this high-stakes court battle.

With everything happening on Capitol Hill and in the news about Title 42, this episode, we're welcoming Laura Collins, the Director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, Texas, along with This Week in Immigration regular Theresa Cardinal Brown to break down exactly what Title 42 is, what is going on at the border now, and how we might better be able to manage the border in the future. Laura's column: https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/opinion/2022/02/04/migration-playbook-changing-laura-collins-george-w-bush-institute/6653304001/ BPC's Redefining Border Security Report: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/redefining-border-security/

We're spending this episode talking to Timothy Kane, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, about his new book, "The Immigrant Superpower: How Brains, Brawn, and Bravery Make America Stronger," which book argues that immigration is central to the United States' economic power and national security.

Theresa Cardinal Brown, Managing Director of BPC Immigration and Cross-Border Policy, starts off this episode by welcoming Casey Christine Higgins, BPC Immigration Fellow and Senior Counsel at Akin Gump, to discuss Title 42 and some of the legislative challenges its proposed takedown has raised. Theresa and host Hannah Tyler are then be joined by Dany Bahar, a professor at Brown and economist affiliated with Harvard and the Center for Global Development, among others, who joins to discuss his most recent papers on how immigrants spur innovation and contribute economically.

This week, we're focusing on the immigration courts: specifically, the deep problems that we see in the immigration courts and attempts by some lawmakers to fix them. In the first half of the episode, we welcome Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of California to discuss her Real Courts, Rule of Law Act of 2022. Then we'll be joined by Austin Kocher of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University and Greg Chen from the American Immigration Lawyers Association to discuss the current state of the immigration courts and why change is necessary.

In this week's episode, host Hannah Tyler is joined by BPC Managing Director for Immigration and Cross-Border Policy Theresa Cardinal Brown for a "newsy" episode focused on the latest in immigration – discussing the new Bipartisan Border Technology Caucus in Congress, new border numbers and the new groups of people we're seeing at the border, and the status of Title 42.

In this week's episode, Theresa Cardinal Brown will be joined by Cris Ramon, Global and U.S. Immigration Policy Researcher and Analyst, to discuss how Europe is responding to the arrival of Ukrainian refugees. Also joining is Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, to talk about what policy avenues the United States has available to assist Ukrainians in the United States and those displaced because of this military action. Links: How to Help Refugees — Aid, Relief and Donations | USA for UNHCR Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

In this week's episode, we're discussing immigration and the workforce. Theresa Cardinal Brown will be joined by Jason Fichtner, Vice President and Chief Economist at BPC, to give an overview of labor and workforce trends. Julia Gelatt, Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute will then join to discuss immigration's specific impact on the workforce and labor trends.

In this week's episode, we're discussing the U.S.-Mexico relationship, and how immigration factors into it. BPC's Director of Immigration and Cross-Border Policy Theresa Brown is joined by Ambassador Arturo Sarukhán, who served as Mexico's ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2013 under President Felipe Calderon.

We're reviewing Biden's first year in office, looking at the immigration issues he's been faced with, and the policy decisions of his administration, and what we might expect in year two of his administration. Theresa Cardinal Brown is joined by three immigration advocates: Jorge Lima, Senior Vice President of Policy at Americans for Prosperity, Todd Schulte, President of FWD.us, and Kerri Talbot, Deputy Director of the Immigration Hub.

In this week's episode, we're joined by BPC Fellow Casey Christine Higgins, Senior Counsel at Akin Gump and former Assistant for Policy and Trade Counsel for former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and This Week regular, Theresa Cardinal Brown to wrap up what happened (or didn't) in immigration and in Congress at the end of last year and thinking about where things might go in 2022.

For this final episode of 2021, we're looking back at the big inflection points and emerging trends from this past year. Our guests this week are Suzanne Monyak, who covers immigration and Congress at CQ Roll Call, and Dara Lind, who covers immigration policy for ProPublica and is a regular co-host of Vox's "The Weeds" podcast. They'll discuss big immigration headlines, the Biden administration's record on immigration, and underlying trends and patterns that we should be looking for next year.

In this week's episode, host Blake Johnson is joined by Theresa Cardinal Brown to discuss the most recent immigration news, including travel restrictions related to the latest COVID variant, the status of immigration in reconciliation on Capitol Hill, and the restart of the Remain in Mexico policy. Then, BPC Fall Immigration Intern, Edvin Morales, joins to talk about the evolving politics of language in the immigration debate.

Every year millions of families across the country gather to celebrate that quintessential American holiday: Thanksgiving. It is a story of immigration. But how do the millions of recently-arrived immigrants to this country view this holiday? For this week's episode, Theresa Cardinal Brown and Sadikshya Nepal are joined by Rachel Peric, Executive Director of Welcoming America, and several BPC staff members to discuss how families combine traditions to make this holiday their own.

In October, Customs and Border Protection released its official migrant numbers for fiscal year 2021 where reports showed U.S. authorities had detained migrants more than 1.7 million times along the border. In this week's episode Theresa Cardinal Brown is joined by Anna Giaritelli, Valerie Gonzalez, and Angela Kocherga, a panel of journalists with years of experience covering the border, migration, and DHS policy.

On this week's episode, Theresa Cardinal Brown is joined by guests Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of U.S. Immigration Policy at the Migration Policy Institute, and Ruth Wasem, BPC Fellow and Professor of Public Policy Practice at the University of Texas at Austin to discuss their new MPI report entitled "Toward A Better Immigration System: Fixing Immigration Governance at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security."

In this week's episode we are joined by BPC regular Theresa Cardinal Brown with a closer look at the U.S.-Mexico bilateral relationship and its impact on immigration and border policy. Then, we feature an extended segment of The Gavel where we will discuss the recent litigation and case developments surrounding the Migration Protection Protocols; the Title 42 order; and Mexico's role in both of those policies. Finally, we'll close out the episode by covering the new ICE enforcement priorities memo.

This week's episode will cover the Senate parliamentarian ruling on immigration, the unfolding Haitian migrant emergency on our Southern border, and the newly proposed federal regulation on DACA. But first, a special guest interview with BPC's Senior Vice President, Bill Hoagland, to help us understand the history of the Budget Reconciliation process and the Byrd Rule.

On this episode, BPC Director of Immigration and Cross-Border Policy Theresa Cardinal Brown joins to reflect on how 9/11 shaped the American immigration system. Later, BPC Immigration Fellow Sadikshya Nepal, and BPC Action Managing Director Laura Hall join to review the Democrats immigration reform plan meant to be included in the reconciliation package.

This week we'll get an update on the situation with the Afghan refugees and the history of Special Immigrant Visas, featuring BPC Fellow Ruth Wasem. Then, we talk about the State Department's visa backlogs and the risk wasting up to 100,000 green cards this year. And finally, a super-sized segment of the Gavel.

BPC regulars Theresa Brown and Sadikshya Nepal discuss the unfolding refugee crisis in Afghanistan, the July border numbers, the new court ruling on the Migrant Protection Protocols program in Texas, new confirmations of officials to USCIS and ICE, and finally a brief progress update on Democrats' budget reconciliation package in Congress.

It's officially episode 100 and we're celebrating with some return guests and highlights. We'll also touch on developments from the Biden administration: their new blueprint to address root causes of Central American migration and the indefinite extension of the Title 42 public health order, so stick around. What To Know on Immigration: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/podcast/what-to-know-on-immigration/

On this week's episode, we begin with the Biden administration's recent policy changes for H-1B visa petitions and what it means for the adjudication process within the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency. Then we break-down CBP's June report on encounters at the southwest border and the Texas district court's decision against the DACA program.