MPI: Revisions to DHS Immigration Enforcement Priorities Could Shield Vast...
Changes to the immigration enforcement system ordered by President Obama could, if strictly implemented, offer a degree of protection from deportation to 87 percent of the nation’s estimated 11 million...
View ArticleMPI: As DACA’s Third Anniversary Nears, Vast Majority of Beneficiaries...
WASHINGTON – The vast majority of unauthorized immigrants who received a temporary grant of relief from deportation as well as work authorization under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)...
View ArticleU.S. Unauthorized Populations from Asia, Central America and Africa Have...
Guatemalans, Indians and Koreans among Top 5 Fastest-Growing Populations since 2000WASHINGTON – While Mexicans still represent the majority of unauthorized immigrants in the United States, the fastest...
View ArticleRepealing Birthright Citizenship: The Unintended Consequences
In this commentary, MPI President Michael Fix discusses how the repeal of birthright citizenship in the United States would create a self-perpetuating underclass that would be excluded from social...
View ArticleMPI Launches Research Series Examining Effects of Discrimination on...
WASHINGTON — Research on the children of immigrants shows that the majority of them perceive discrimination, and that they more easily read signs of personal than institutional discrimination....
View ArticleAs Central American Migration Has Risen, Mexico’s New Enforcement Role Is...
WASHINGTON – The United States and Mexico have apprehended nearly 1 million Salvadoran, Guatemalan and Honduran migrants since 2010, deporting more than 800,000 of them, including more than 40,000...
View ArticleThe EU Asylum Crisis Lays Bare the Unresolved Dysfunctions of Incomplete Systems
The ongoing chaos being seen in Southeast Europe, as countries grapple with massive inflows of asylum seekers from Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere have laid bare the unresolved dysfunctions of incomplete...
View ArticleDanger Ahead for Aspiring Citizens as New Federal Workforce Law Is Implemented
Ahead of National Citizenship Day, this commentary examines how regulations for the implementation of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) at state and local levels could...
View ArticleDeportation of a Parent Can Have Significant and Long-Lasting Harmful Effects...
Two reports released by the Migration Policy Institute and the Urban Institute trace the effects that parental deportation can have on children, finding significant and long-lasting harm can occur at...
View ArticleMPI and Asian Development Bank Launch Initiative on Mobility of Skilled Labor...
MPI and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on September 28 – 29 will host a forum in Bali, Indonesia to launch a joint initiative which aims to reduce barriers to the free flow of skilled labor amongst...
View ArticleThe U.S. Record Shows Refugees Are Not a Threat
As Congress and others react to the Obama administration’s announcement that the refugee resettlement program will increase from the current 70,000 level to 85,000 next year and 100,000 in 2017, some...
View ArticleIt is Time for Federal Agencies to Do More to Improve the Provision of...
Whether driven by pragmatism, local laws, or federal civil-rights provisions, state and local governments and agencies across the United States increasingly have designed and implemented language...
View ArticleMapping the Patchwork of State ‘DREAM Acts’ and Postsecondary Education...
Since 2001, 17 states have enacted measures to allow qualified unauthorized immigrant youth to pay resident tuition rates at their postsecondary institutions. Other states, meanwhile, have moved in the...
View ArticleSyrian Refugee Children Encountering Significant Trauma and Schooling...
Forty percent of the more than 4 million Syrian refugees who have fled Syria since civil war began in 2011 are under the age of 12, with many encountering substantial schooling disruptions that will...
View ArticleBeyond the Surge: Most Unaccompanied Minors Still Await Immigration Court...
An MPI issue brief examines refugee resettlement data, immigration court data, and policies adopted by individual school districts to offer a portrait of where unaccompanied minors from Central America...
View ArticleMeeting the Education Needs of Rising Numbers of Newly Arrived Migrant...
As flows of young migrant and refugee children increase on both sides of the Atlantic, the demands placed on education systems by newcomer students have never been greater. This commentary addresses...
View ArticleMPI’s Transatlantic Council on Migration Launches Series of Reports Examining...
MPI's Transatlantic Council on Migration launches a series of reports on the scale and implications of the loss of well-educated young workers who are emigrating from high- and growing middle-income...
View ArticleMPI Fact Sheet: Syrian Immigrant Population in the United States Is a Small...
The Syrian immigrant population in the United States is a tiny one,representing 0.2 percent of the U.S. foreign-born population of 42.4 million in 2014, according to a new MPI fact sheet that offers a...
View ArticleRosenblum Testimony on Immigration Enforcement Priorities before the Senate...
Marc Rosenblum, deputy director of the Migration Policy Institute’s U.S. Immigration Policy Program, testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the immigration enforcement...
View ArticlePrivate sponsorship programmes could be ‘piece of a complex puzzle’ to...
BRUSSELS — As the European Union considers scaling up plans to resettle refugees directly from Turkey and other countries of first asylum to reduce pressures to travel illicitly, limit the power of...
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