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This Week in Immigration Bipartisan Policy Center
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This Week in Immigration gives you a rundown of key immigration issues. Experts from the Bipartisan Policy Center discuss and analyze all that is new and noteworthy on immigration policy.
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Ep. 174: Life After Chevron’s Death – The Potential Impacts of SCOTUS Decisions On Immigration Policy
In this week’s episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown delves into the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn the 40-year old judicial doctrine of deference to executive agencies that has been defining American administrative law, and the impacts for U.S. immigration policy and practice. with two distinguished guests: J.D. Rackey, Senior Policy Analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Structural Democracy Project, to discuss the impact of the decision on the roles of the legislative and executive branches of government, and Mark Stevens, a top-rated Washington DC lawyer with expertise in immigration litigation, to explain how the SCOTUS decision changes legal practice for immigration attorneys and their clients.
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Ep. 173: On the Other Side of The Border – Immigration and Mexico’s Incoming President
In this week’s episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown delves into the recent Mexican presidential election and its implications for U.S. immigration policy with three distinguished guests. Joining us are Andrew Selee, President of the Migration Policy Institute, José Díaz Briseño, a U.S.-based reporter for the Mexican newspaper REFORMA, and Pulitzer-prize winning freelance journalist, Emily Green. We discuss Claudia Sheinbaum, the first female president-elect of Mexico, what her election might mean for cooperation at the U.S.-Mexico border, and what changes in migration dynamics we can expect going forward. Together, they take us through the changing landscape of U.S.-Mexico relations and its implications for binational relations, immigration, and border policy.
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Ep. 172: Rep. Nikki Budzinski on a Recent Bipartisan Visit to the Southern Border
In this week’s episode, BPC Associate Director Jack Malde interviews the Director of BPC’s Congress Project John Richter and BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown about a recent bipartisan visit to the southern border. The visit, arranged as part of BPC’s American Congressional Exchange (ACE) program, brought six members of Congress to the border to better understand the urgent challenges and opportunities for bipartisan cooperation on U.S. immigration and border policy. Theresa then chats to one of the members, Representative Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), about her thoughts on the trip and what she learned from it.
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s American Congressional Exchange Program: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/project/american-congressional-exchange/
ACE Crosses the Border and Party Lines in Arizona and Nogales, Mexico: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/ace-immigration-and-border-visit/
00:00 Intro
00:58 John Richter and Theresa on ACE Trip
34:22 Rep. Nikki Budzinski (D-IL) and Theresa on ACE Trip
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Ep. 171: Do Legal Pathways Reduce Illegal Entries? And the Economic Impact of Immigration Restrictions
In this week’s episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown talks with Michael Clemens, professor of economics at George Mason University, who has studied the economic causes and effects of migration all over the world. His latest research, based on detailed examination of border crossing data, shows that offering more lawful pathways to immigrants reduces unlawful border crossings. We also talk about the importance of good data for examining immigration policy and how traditional understandings of the linkages between migration and development may not be correct.
Michael Clemens Bio: Economics | Faculty and Staff: Michael A Clemens (gmu.edu)
PIIE Article: Offering more lawful pathways for US border crossings reduces unlawful crossings | PIIE
Journal of Economic Perspectives Article: Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? - American Economic Association (aeaweb.org) -
Ep. 170: Reducing Poverty by Making the Most of Existing Migration Pathways
In this week’s episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown and Associate Director Jack Malde chat with Jason Wendle, an expert in migration and labor mobility. We speak about various initiatives that Jason is involved in that facilitate migration from lower-income to higher-income countries by increasing the use of existing migratory pathways. Such initiatives can benefit those on the move, the countries that welcome them, and the countries they (often temporarily) leave behind, without the need to change immigration law.
The Migration Opportunity: https://globaldevincubator.org/initiative/the-migration-opportunity/
Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP): https://lampforum.org/
Malengo: https://malengo.org/
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Ep. 169: How to Make Immigration Popular Through Demonstrably Beneficial Policies
In this week’s episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown and Senior Policy Analyst Jack Malde chat with Alexander Kustov, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. We discuss Professor Kustov’s research on how we might, or might not, be able to shift public opinion in the United States to increase support for immigration. One promising approach, that will be the subject of Professor Kustov’s forthcoming book “In Our Interest: How to Make Immigration Popular”, is adopting demonstrably beneficial policies that make voters confident their government is managing immigration in their interest.
Customer Reviews
No credence to transparent lie
Why would anyone believe that the Trump Administration wants to protect asylum applicants from Mexico by sending them to Guatemala? Do they send Guatemalans to Mexico? Hondurans to Nicaragua? They do not.
Facts - not spin
Thanks for giving a timeline and facts on the immigration issues.
A fair and informative discussion on immigration
I listened to a few episodes and I am really impressed how fair and knowledgeable the guests are and how fair the discussion and host are. But it’s not just about being fair, it’s about being informative and this podcast is just that. I really hope our elected leaders genuinely concerned about immigration listen to this podcast