Amid Federal Pullback from Labor Standards Enforcement, States Are Using...
WASHINGTON – Systemic wage underpayment, payroll fraud and misclassification of employees as independent contractors to avoid paying workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and payroll taxes are...
View ArticleImmigration Data Matters: MPI and PRB Release Online Guide with Top Data...
WASHINGTON – The Migration Policy Institute and Population Reference Bureau today released an update to their popular online guide, which directs users to the most credible, useful data on immigrants...
View ArticleEU-Turkey deal continues to paper over vast cracks in Europe's asylum...
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s deal with Turkey—signed two years ago this week—may have helped to drastically reduce the numbers of migrants coming to Europe, but a new Migration Policy Institute...
View ArticleTurkey-Style Deals Will Not Solve the Next EU Migration Crisis
The EU-Turkey deal has been credited with helping to end the migration crisis of 2015-16, and after two years in force it has fostered a myth that such deals are cure-alls. They are not, as this MPI...
View ArticleNew Reports Spotlight Innovative Teaching Practices and Models to Support the...
WASHINGTON — More U.S. communities are experiencing “superdiversity” in early education and care settings, as young Dual Language Learners (DLLs) arrive with greater variation in origins,...
View ArticleGet better at sharing expertise or face failure on refugees, new report warns...
BRUSSELS — European countries must adopt a more strategic approach when offering support to one another to resettle refugees if they hope to meet ambitious goals laid out by the European Union, the...
View ArticleAs Brief, Competitive Window for Employers to Apply for H-1B Visas Nears, MPI...
WASHINGTON – With demand for H-1B high-skilled visas far outstripping supply, employers are gearing up to mail in applications on April 2, the day the lottery opens this year for 85,000 of the...
View ArticleMPI: As Is Case in U.S., Family Admissions Represent Biggest Immigration...
WASHINGTON – A number of countries have been revisiting issues related to family-based immigration. At the height of the 2015-2016 European migration crisis, Germany and Sweden introduced restrictions...
View ArticleExamination of Early Childhood Education & Care Programs for Children in...
WASHINGTON — With large numbers of refugees and asylum seekers arriving in Europe and North America in recent years, many of the youngest arrivals have experienced trauma and stress that pose serious...
View ArticlePost-Brexit planning for UK migrants must begin quickly across EU, report warns
BRUSSELS — National and local authorities across the European Union need to move swiftly to clarify the status of British citizens living on their territory after Brexit, or risk making a mess of the...
View ArticleICE Arrests Under Trump Are Up Significantly Over Latter Obama Years, But...
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has significantly revved up the immigration enforcement machinery in the U.S. interior, with arrests and deportations up about 40 percent in its first eight months...
View ArticleThe New EU Migration-Related Fund Masks Deeper Questions over Policy Aims
The European Commission has proposed an 89.5 billion-euro fund to combat irregular migration by investing heavily in countries outside the European Union. This commentary argues the ultimate aims of...
View ArticleAmid Talk of Border Walls, MPI President’s New Book Examines How the U.S....
WASHINGTON – While much recent discussion of the U.S. relationship with Mexico has focused on the Trump administration’s intent to build a wall on the border and further stiffen immigration control...
View ArticleCrisis at the Border? Not by the Numbers
Monthly apprehension statistics at the Southwest border have become a preoccupation for the Trump administration, which compares the 2018 numbers to 2017 and declares a crisis. Yet it was 2017, when...
View ArticleMPI: Nearly Half of All Noncitizens in U.S. Could Be Affected by Proposed...
U.S., State Estimates of Benefits Use by Noncitizens, Naturalized Citizens & U.S. Born Offered
View ArticleHouse Bills Would Largely Dismantle Asylum System at U.S.-Mexico Border
The House is set to vote on two bills that would largely dismantle the U.S. asylum system at the southern border by significantly narrowing grounds to apply for asylum, eliminating protections for the...
View ArticleHorst Seehofer’s Migration Plan for Germany: Another Nail in the Coffin of...
Amid significant tensions over migration that could fracture Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition, a new "migration master plan" set to be unveiled by Interior Minister Horst Seehofer...
View ArticleA Narrower Path in the House for Most DREAMers
In exchange for resolving the status of DREAMers, the White House and its congressional allies are demanding billions of dollars for a border wall and additional enforcement, sharp limits on asylum,...
View ArticleFar from a Retreat, the Trump Administration’s Border Policies Advance its...
Even as some pundits assess President Trump's temporary end to family separation as a defeat, the deeper reality is being lost: The administration’s plan to detain all asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico...
View ArticleEurope Pushes to Outsource Asylum, Again
European leaders have settled on a recurring proposition to address the ongoing political crisis on migration: the creation of asylum processing centers beyond EU borders. The plans championed by...
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