American Immigrant Policy Portal Update, December 2020

American Immigrant Policy Portal

Newsletter

December, 2020

Research to Inform Policy, Practice, and Advocacy on

Migration-Related Issues

Policy-related reports, studies, and information about the challenge and promise of immigrant integration. Materials organized by collection topic.

Click on headlines for abstracts and links.

New Public Policy Research and Reports

Adult Education and Workforce Training

Report finds that the demise of DACA would block access to higher education for thousands of DACA-eligible young people in states with restrictive policy environments

Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Immigration

Brookings Study finds that the market valuation of Fortune 500 companies dropped by about $100 billion after President Trump issued an executive order in June of 2020 banning the issuance of new H-1B high-skilled work visas

UC Davis study finds that Trump's proclamation halting high-skilled migration through the H-1B visa program has hurt the U.S. economy

Employment and Labor Issues

MPI report finds that immigrant women are bearing the brunt of the pandemic, especially in terms of job loss

Report analyzes the structural barriers that have produced disproportionately negative impacts of the pandemic on low- and moderate-income immigrant households

Human Services (Health Care)

MPI study documents the mental health toll on Latino high school students from the Trump administration's deportation policies

Local Government

Research team from the University of Texas evaluates efforts by the City of Dallas to integrate its growing immigrant population

Refugee and Asylee Issues

CAP publishes a roadmap and set of principles to revive and strengthen the U.S. refugee resettlement program

State-Specific Studies

Report from the Center for an Urban Future documents the range of problems faced by immigrants in New York City during the pandemic

CAP report highlights the crucial role played by immigrant-serving organizations in meeting the needs of vulnerable immigrants in New York City during the pandemic

National Perspectives/Immigration Policy

Drawing on the advice of immigration policy experts, CMS and the Zolberg Institute publish recommendations to the incoming Biden administration for the reform of the U.S. immigration system

MPI report sizes up the opportunities and obstacles to achieving fundamental reform of the nation's immigration system in the new Biden administration

Immigration scholar Demetrios G. Papademetriou offers reflections on the future of migration in the wake of the worldwide pandemic

According to MPI report, the Trump administration, despite its harsh rhetoric, oversaw half as many deportations during its first three years in office as did the Obama administration during its first three years

LATEST NEWS AND COMMENTARY

Featuring a selection of recent Op-eds from

Immigration researchers and major opinion leaders

December 22, 2020

A Therapists' Network supports immigrants, activists during pandemic

Valeria Fernandez, The World

December 16, 2020

Reports Say Canada One of World's Friendliest Places for Immigrants

Colin Singer, Canada Immigration News

December 16, 2020

The Great Climate Migration: How Russia Could Dominate a Warming World

Abraham Lustgarten, ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine

December 10, 2020

Immigrant essential workers have helped us through this long dark pandemic

Ruth Ellen Wassem, The Hill

December 7, 2020

Undocumented Immigrants are Half as Likely to Be Arrested for Violent Crimes as U.S.-Born Citizens

Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American

December 5, 2020

Could Trump's Legacy Be a More Lenient Immigration System

Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg Opinion

December 4, 2020

Immigration: A strength, not a weakness

Steven V. Roberts, Syndicated Columnist

December 2, 2020

Immigration Policy by Presidential Decree

David J. Bier & Alex Nowrasteh, CATO Institute

November 24, 2020

Covid-19 is taking a devastating toll on Filipino American nurses

Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN

November 23, 2020

Biden Will Try to Unmake Trump's Immigration Agenda. It Won't Be Easy.

Julia Preston, The Marshall Project

November 22, 2020

Thank Immigration for the New Covid-19 Vaccines

Ilya Somin, Reason (The Volokh Conspiracy)

November 21, 2020

Temporary Protected Status solution for undocumented immigrants

Leon Fresco, The Hill

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