Immigration
Our nation’s immigration system is broken. It’s complex, inflexible, and outdated. It doesn’t make us safer or enhance our economic growth. BPC’s immigration work focuses on practical legislative solutions that address the system as a whole, enhancing flexibility, promoting fairness, and aligning with America’s needs and values.
Chain Migration and DACA: An Explainer
Immigration is a top-of-mind issue for the elections, but are Democrats and Republicans willing to make compromises to get something done? Check out our poll with Morning Consult and our event on Friday on Immigration and the 2020 Elections. https://t.co/rnAhltAnPB https://t.co/YQja4wAikx
The Exception to the Exception: How the Asylum Cooperative Agreements Reinstate Expedited Removal for Asylum-seekers
Immigration 101
Immigration Perspectives: COVID-19 Edition
Important legal question here for experts: if a person wins asylum or withholding in immigration court but the government appeals, what is their status under the INA? Is the decision stayed until the appeal? Has this issue been decided before? https://t.co/auW3Mnendp
With public charge dropping, I wrote a @BPC_Bipartisan lit review that examined non-citizen use of public benefits. TLDR: most research reviewed shows that individual immigrants use public benefits at lower rates/lower portions than native-born Americans https://t.co/FTovB74MFp
Morning Consult/BPC Survey Finds Room for Compromise on Immigration; Border Wall a Barrier to Negotiation
The End of Catch and Release? MPP by the Numbers
Works in Progress
Episode 64: This Week in Immigration
Recent Immigration Has Been Good for Native-Born Employment
Policy Proposals to Address the Central American Migration Challenge
Decriminalizing Illegal Border Crossing: What Does it Mean? An Explainer of Civil vs. Criminal Immigration Enforcement
While it is up to Congress to lay out a process for reform, we believe the legislation must include provisions that secure the border, control the flow of unauthorized immigration, provide adequate legal avenues for future workers, maintain a tradition of family-based immigration, and afford a means for those currently undocumented immigrants to get right with the law and earn a legal status.![]()
About Us
BPC’s Immigration Project provides objective and fact-based analysis and reporting on the current state of U.S. immigration policy, including the economic, humanitarian, international, and security aspects of the issue. Through close examination and input from both sides of the aisle, and via our Immigration Task Force, the project develops evidence-based policy recommendations for future-looking fair, productive, and bipartisan reforms to the immigration system. Our work reaches diverse audiences, elevating the immigration debate from partisan talking points, and moving our country closer to a better functioning immigration system.
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The Immigration Project
BPC’s Immigration Project provides objective and fact-based analysis and reporting on the current state of U.S. immigration policy, including the economic, humanitarian, international, and security aspects of the issue. Through close examination and input from both sides of the aisle, and via our Immigration Task Force, the project develops evidence-based policy recommendations for future-looking fair, productive, and bipartisan reforms to the immigration system. Our work reaches diverse audiences, elevating the immigration debate from partisan talking points, and moving our country closer to a better functioning immigration system.
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The Immigration Task Force
Al Cardenas
Former Chairman, American Conservative UnionDavid Dreier
Former U.S. Representative, CaliforniaEd Brady
Former Chairman of the National Association of Home Builders, President and CEO, Home Builders InstituteEd Rendell
Task Force Co-Chair
Former Governor, PennsylvaniaEliseo Medina
Former International Secretary-Treasurer, Service Employees International UnionHaley Barbour
Task Force Co-Chair
Former Governor, MississippiHenry Cisneros
Task Force Co-Chair
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentHilda Solis
Former Secretary of LaborHoward Berman
Former U.S. Representative, CaliforniaJohn Rowe
Chairman Emeritus, Exelon CorporationJohn Shadegg
Former U.S. Representative, ArizonaMichael Chertoff
Task Force Co-Chair
Former Secretary of Homeland Security
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