This Week In Immigration
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Synopsis
This Week in Immigration gives you a rundown in 30 minutes or less of key immigration issues. Experts from the Bipartisan Policy Center discuss and analyze all that is new and noteworthy on immigration policy.
Episodes
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Ep. 159: Four Distinguished Scholars on a Path Forward for Immigration Reform
05/12/2023 Duration: 48minIn this week’s episode, new host Jack Malde chats with four Distinguished Immigration Scholars at Cornell Law School on their new white paper “Immigration Reform: A Path Forward”. Stephen Yale-Loehr, Randel Keith Johnson, Charles Kamasaki, and BPC’s very own Theresa Cardinal Brown take us through important reforms to border management and asylum policy, worker programs, and DREAMer protections. While large, comprehensive immigration reform is unlikely to move forward in Congress soon, certain targeted reforms are both urgently needed and potentially achievable. Cornell Law School Migration & Human Rights Program: Migration & Human Rights Program - Cornell Law School Cornell Law School Immigration Reform: A Path Forward white paper: Cornell-immigration-white-paper-10-5-23.pdf
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Ep. 158: The Cost of Green Card Backlogs and Impending Population Decline
21/11/2023 Duration: 24minIn this week’s episode, guest host Theresa Cardinal Brown and BPC Senior Policy Analyst Jack Malde discuss BPC’s new report which quantifies the tremendous economic benefits on offer if Congress were to act to clear green card backlogs. Then, Theresa and Jack discuss new projections from the Census Bureau which show that the U.S. population is set to begin declining in the second half of this century, underlining the importance of immigration for continued growth and prosperity.
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Ep. 157: Biden’s AI Executive Order and The Immigrant Superpower
07/11/2023 Duration: 37minIn this week’s episode, host Hanadi Jordan and Theresa Cardinal Brown unpack President Biden’s recent Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the efforts of the administration to attract and retain AI talent. Then, we rebroadcast clips from a past interview with economist, veteran and scholar Tim Kane, who speaks about why America is “The Immigrant Superpower” (the title of his book) and how immigrants are vital for our national security.
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Ep. 156: Biden Forced to Build Border Wall and a Settlement for Separated Parents
24/10/2023 Duration: 49minEconomic Policy Program Director and former OMB official Rachel Snyderman joins podcast host Hanadi Jordan and Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown to discuss President Biden's border wall plans and whether he was legally obligated to expand the wall under appropriations allocated in 2019. Then, Theresa covers the ACLU-Biden Administration’s settlement with the ACLU in a class action lawsuit over parent-child separations under then-President Trump’s “zero tolerance policy.”
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Ep. 155: Government Shutdowns and Funding the Immigration System (re-release)
10/10/2023 Duration: 39minGiven recent efforts in Congress to avoid a government shutdown, this episode we are revisiting Episode 141 of This Week in Immigration, where Theresa Cardinal Brown and Laura Hall of BPC Action walk through the federal government's budget and appropriations process, how the immigration system is funded, and what happens in a government shutdown.
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Ep 154: Rio Grande Buoys, NYC Mayor vs. Biden on migrants and work, and Government Shutdown and DHS
26/09/2023 Duration: 01h10minIn this week’s episode, host Hanadi Jordan and Theresa Cardinal Brown discuss the federal government’s lawsuit against Texas Governor Greg Abbot over anti-migrant buoys and the growing tensions between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Biden administration concerning migrant arrivals. Then, the pair discuss what a government shutdown means for DHS.
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Ep. 153: The U.S.’ Aging Population and Immigration’s Vital Mediating Role
12/09/2023 Duration: 34minDeclining birth rates and an aging population present a serious demographic problem for the U.S. with long-term economic consequences. BPC Research Analyst Justis Antonioli and Associate Director of Economic Policy Ben Gitis join the podcast to discuss BPC’s latest report, The Demographic Transition: An Overview of America’s Aging Population and Immigration’s Mediating Role, which examines research on the role of immigration in strengthening the labor force and supporting the economy. Then, podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown breaks down the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Space X over discriminatory hiring practices.
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Ep. 152: Legal Immigration Reform - Challenges and Promising Paths Forward
31/08/2023 Duration: 51minOn today’s episode, we feature audio from our most recent event on challenges with the current legal immigration system and potential pathways for reform. Moderated by Bloomberg Law’s Andrew Kreighbaum, Jon Baselice with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Martin Kim with Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, David Bier with Cato Institute, and Dip Patel with Improve The Dream assess issues raised by the system’s current status quo and share their best ideas for reform.
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Ep. 151: Rep. Carbajal on the Protect Patriot Parents Act
15/08/2023 Duration: 40minIn this episode we welcome Representative Salud Carbajal to tell us all about his bipartisan bill, the Protect Patriot Parents Act, which would make parents of U.S. military service members eligible for green cards, preventing potential deportations or separations of military families. After this, podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown breaks down the latest border numbers and recent Biden administration restrictions on who is eligible to apply for asylum.
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Episode 150: This Week in Immigration
01/08/2023 Duration: 55minTo mark a very special podcast milestone—our 150th episode—podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown sits down with Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) to discuss the Dignity Act. Then, Theresa and host Hanadi Jordan reflect on six years of the podcast. Featuring clips from some of our favorite episodes, we cover the highlights, the challenges, and hopes for the future!
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Episode 149: This Week in Immigration
18/07/2023 Duration: 41minIn this edition, Julie Stufft, deputy assistant secretary for visa services at the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the State Department, walks listeners through life in visa services. Joined by podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown, Stuff covers her career in the State Department, current challenges in visa services, and recent reports of State Department efforts to streamline visa applications for Indian nationals.
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Episode 148: This Week in Immigration
04/07/2023 Duration: 45minHaving trouble keeping up with key immigration litigation? This latest episode of TWII has you covered with another edition of The Gavel! Joined by podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown, Cornell Law Professor Steve Yale-Loeher breaks down the Supreme Court’s latest decision to uphold the Biden administration’s deportation priorities in U.S. v. Texas. Then, both podcast guests walk listeners through upcoming cases concerning the future of the DACA program and the administration’s new asylum restrictions.
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Episode 147: This Week in Immigration
20/06/2023 Duration: 49minTo mark graduation season, we’re covering immigrants and higher education this episode. Miriam Feldblum, executive director of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, joins to discuss the Presidents’ Alliance and the concerns of higher education institutions regarding immigrant students and scholars. Then, podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown provides an update on the border post-Title 42, and why the numbers of encounters aren’t what many predicted.
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Episode 146: This Week in Immigration
06/06/2023 Duration: 39minToday, we sit down with Jon Baselice, vice president of immigration policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to discuss the Chamber’s recently launched LIBERTY campaign which calls for both border and legal immigration reform. Then, as we start summer and all the activities that go along with it, podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown walks listeners through who seasonal workers are, the visa process these workers rely on, and challenges in meeting the workforce needs of seasonal employers.
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Episode 145: This Week in Immigration
22/05/2023 Duration: 38minOn today’s episode, we examine the pause on nursing visa applications, overall health care workforce issues, and the impact of these challenges on the health care industry. Lisa Harootunian, BPC associate director of health policy, joins alongside “This Week” regular Theresa Cardinal Brown to break down the workforce shortage and how immigration can be part of the solution.
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Episode 144: This Week in Immigration
09/05/2023 Duration: 34minHow do immigrants support U.S. competitiveness? On today’s episode, we recap our latest event, “National Security and Competitiveness: Can Skilled Immigration Help?” with audio from the webinar. Our panel includes Kai Hirabayashi, senior manager of public policy at Amazon, Divanysh Kaushik, associate director at the Federation of American Scientists, Margaret Stock, attorney at Cascadia Cross-Border Law Group, and BPC’s Dane Stangler, director of strategic initiatives.
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Episode 143: This Week in Immigration
25/04/2023 Duration: 50minWe mark the end of tax season with a discussion on taxes and immigrants—do undocumented immigrants file taxes and, if so, how and why? We cover the consequences and challenges for undocumented immigrants who file and what policy changes have been proposed to address the issue. Then, we catch listeners up on the latest news in the immigration world, from the return to pre-pandemic levels of U.S. immigration to new border bills from House Republicans to the impending expiration of Title 42.
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Episode 142: This Week In Immigration
10/04/2023 Duration: 52minOn today’s episode, we are joined by CBC reporter Verity Stevenson and podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown to discuss the Safe Third Country Agreement between the U.S. and Canada. We discuss what the policy is, how it’s impacting migrants, and why it has elicited so much controversy as it awaits its fate in the Canadian court system.
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Episode 141: This Week in Immigration
27/03/2023 Duration: 39minOn this week’s episode, host Hanadi Jordan speaks with Theresa Cardinal Brown and BPC Action Managing Director Laura Hall about the president’s budget, the budget and appropriations process and why it matters for immigration policy, as well as the details of what President Biden proposed for immigration. Is there a federal budget for “immigration” as a whole? What makes it so hard for Congress to pass the federal budget on time? And will the divided Congress support President Biden’s immigration priorities? Theresa and Laura break it all down.
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Episode 140: This Week In Immigration
14/03/2023 Duration: 26minOn this week’s episode Theresa Cardinal Brown fills in for Hanadi Jordan who is out this week. We dive into the state of the American workforce and how immigration plays into it with Ben Gitis, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Associate Director for economic and workforce policy. We talk about a recent Morning Consult survey for BPC on high-skilled immigration, the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the state of employment, unemployment and how we define labor shortages. We also talk about immigrants in the labor force, high-skilled and lesser skilled immigration, and what may be keeping immigrants and Americans from getting back into the labor market post-COVID.