This Week in Immigration

On this week's episode, Theresa Cardinal Brown hosted a deep-dive conversation to discuss the roundtables and respective report that looks into how local community leaders viewed the immigration issue being debated nationally. She's joined by Laura Goldberg, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Communications at the Center for Houston's Future, Julie Bunczak, Program Manager at the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, and Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Global Migration and Demography Research at Pew Research Center.

On this week’s program, we kick off 2021 with Theresa Cardinal Brown hosting a special conversation with BPC Fellow Ruth Wasem. The episode begins with a brief discussion of the violent efforts to disrupt the certification of the Electoral college vote last week. Later, the two immigration experts will provide a rundown of recent “midnight actions” that President Trump has taken in the final few weeks of his administration. They then turn to discussing administrative and legislative options Biden may take to undo such actions during the first months of his presidency.

In light of the violent efforts to disrupt the certification of Electoral College vote last week, we have decided to delay the recording and release of our next podcast episode. We will be resuming our recording schedule this week, so please keep your eye out for our next episode in your podcast feed. You can find Jason Grumet’s full statement at bipartisanpolicy.org.

On this week’s program, BPC regular Theresa Cardinal Brown sits down with special guest Charles Kamasaki, author of “Immigration Reform: The Corpse that Will Not Die,” to discuss the 2020 election results and its implications for comprehensive immigration reform. The team also has a super-sized edition of the Gavel where they cover recent rulings, rules and regulations on everything from DACA to the H-1B program to the public charge rule.

On this Thanksgiving special, we welcome a new host, Rachel Iacono, to the show, and recap this week’s BPC Thanksgiving dinner. BPC regular Theresa Cardinal Brown also brings on Director of the Center for Inclusion and Belonging at the American Immigration Council Wendy Feliz to discuss ways to talk about divisive immigration issues around the dinner table, and BPC Immigration Fellow Sadikshya Nepal to hear an immigrant’s perspective on her first Thanksgiving in the United States.

On this week’s episode, Theresa Cardinal Brown and Jordan LaPier welcome BPC Action Managing Director Laura Hall and BPC Immigration Fellow Casey Higgins to discuss what the election of Joe Biden means for immigration policy; the future of migration at the southern border; and what new immigration rules an outgoing Trump administration may still look to implement.

On our final episode before Election Day, Host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón discuss the legacy of family separations, immigration’s decreased role on the campaign trail, and the latest cases to be taken up by the Supreme Court , including the Trump administration’s Remain in Mexico policy.

On this week’s program, Host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón discuss the Trump Administration's stiff new rules for H1-B visas, ICE's recent campaign targeting sanctuary jurisdictions, and in this week's edition of the Gavel, the team also discusses the Trump administration's reimplementation of the public charge rule.

On this week’s episode, BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón bring on special guest Mack Eason of Cornell University as they discuss Mack's proposal for a new points-based immigration system, and BPC’s new report on how Canada and Australia transitioned to their points-based systems. The team also discusses how Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing could impact a number of pending immigration-related cases and future executive actions on immigration.

On this week’s episode, we have a supersized edition of the Gavel with Host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón. They discuss the latest legal happenings in the courts for immigration policy, including the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco’s ruling to end TPS for several countries; the New York Southern District Court’s blocking of the implementation of President Trump’s July 2020 memo that excludes unauthorized immigrants from the Census count; and the latest cases surrounding the treatment of immigrant children in government custody.