American Immigrant Policy Portal Update, January 2022

American Immigrant Policy Portal

Newsletter

January, 2022

Research to Inform Policy, Practice, and Advocacy on

Migration-Related Issues

Reports, studies, and information about immigration policy

and the challenge and promise of immigrant integration

Materials organized by collection topic.

Click on headlines for abstracts and links to original research.

New Public Policy Research and Reports

Employment and Labor Issues

Report from the Immigrant Learning Center examines the contributions of immigrant essential workers during the pandemic, the perils they faced in doing their jobs, and the difficulties they encountered in accessing government services and supports

Paper from the Economic Policy Institute critiques the lax enforcement of prevailing wage rules in processing H-1B visa applications

WES Global Talent Bridge report examines recent efforts by states to create pathways to licensure and practice for foreign-trained healthcare professionals in order to ease labor shortages in the healthcare industry

WES Global Talent Bridge report urges six states that temporarily eased requirements for licensure for internationally trained health workers during the pandemic to build on these short-term initiatives

Law Enforcement

Journal article examines problems in the implementation of New York State's "Greenlight Law," which permits qualified undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses in order to cut off the "traffic stop-to-deportation pipeline"

Refugee and Asylee Issues

TRAC study examines the impact of nationality, language, gender, and age in the adjudication of asylum applications

National Perspectives/Immigration Policy

MPI report calls attention to the significant accomplishments of the Biden Administration in the area of immigration policy during its first year in office

To relieve disorder at the southern border, MPI report calls for the creation of legal pathways for temporary or permanent migration of Central Americans to the United States

Study urges steps to remedy the growing problem of "quasi-status" in immigration policy, i.e. status categories that are neither legal nor illegal in the traditional sense

GAO report analyzes the factors creating huge backlogs in the processing of immigration applications by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

LATEST NEWS AND COMMENTARY

Featuring a selection of recent Op-eds from

Immigration researchers and major opinion leaders

January 24, 2022

Rich Countries Lure Health Workers From Low-Income Nations to Fight Shortages

Stephanie Nolen, The New York Times

January 19, 2022

It's time for the Biden administration to let immigrants know about the public charge rule change

Gabriel R. Sanchez, Brookings

January 19, 2022

Immigration advocates unite behind strategy to 'disregard' parliamentarian

Suzanne Monyak, Roll Call

January 12, 2022

Immigrant Business Owners Are the Key to Supercharging America's Economy

Richard Burke, Entrepreneur

January 11, 2022

For the foreseeable future, immigration will fuel US population growth

Joseph Chamie, The Hill

January 11, 2022

Labor Shortages and the Immigration Shortfall

Giovanni Peri & Reem Zaiour, Econofact

January 10, 2022

Democrats urge Biden to grant deportation relief to at least 2 million immigrants

Ted Hesson, Reuters

January 9, 2022

Slowing Immigration Worsens Job Shortages

Dante Chinni, NBC News

January 6, 2022

Liberals can win the immigration debate

Simon Kuper, Financial Times

January 3, 2022

Archaic System Slowed Immigration Benefits Amid Pandemic

Andrew Kreighbaum, Bloomberg Law

December 21, 2021

Immigration Reform Is Dead

Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic

Our Mission

"'Closing the Knowledge to Action Gap"

As the United States struggles to build an immigration system for the 21^st century, the Portal enables advocates and policy-makers to use evidence-based research to guide their work.

Our goal is to preserve and disseminate the findings of leading researchers who are seeking answers to questions critical to the future of the country.

To date, our team of volunteers has produced over 2,000 research summaries grouped into 19 different subject collections.

These summaries, as well as links to original research, are available at the Portal website and at the website of the Public Education Institute of the Immigrant Learning Center.

Please write us with any thoughts or suggestions you might have at: mail@usdiversitydynamics.com