This Week in Immigration

In this week’s episode, we’re focusing on DACA, as the program and its recipients wait for a decision on the program’s legality from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. We’ll welcome Niña Ledonio, BPC’s Corporate Relations Manager and a DACA recipient, to talk about the program’s impact on her life. This Week in Immigration regular, Theresa Cardinal Brown, will then join to talk through the policy side of DACA, walking us through the Biden administration’s recent final rule and the maze of litigation that DACA faces. Finally, Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, the President of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, will join us to discuss the Afghan Adjustment Act.

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.

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.