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 It’s complex, inflexible, and outdated.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.
Policy Proposals to Address the Central American Migration Challenge
The New Middle on Immigration
U.S.-Mexico Apprehensions Drop, But Causes Remain Elusive
116th Congress Chooses Small Scale Reforms to Change the Legal Immigration System
Episode 48: This Week in Immigration
Asylum in Canada: How New Trends Compare to the United States
Who is the governmental official? Given that it is the acting DHS Sec, signing for the US, protocol would suggest it is a security minister? Which means it's not a presidential agreement, such as Morales was prohibited from signing? https://t.co/l2I9mtiR7N
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
Immigration 101
New Border Apprehensions Data Shows Families Arriving at the U.S. Border at Unprecedented Levels
Border Security and Humanitarian Aid Both Benefit from Increased Surge Capacity
Chain Migration and DACA: An Explainer
Recent Immigration Has Been Good for Native-Born Employment
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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