As 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...
View ArticleEuropean leaders should de-escalate crisis around migration, says MPI Europe...
BRUSSELS – The European Union needs to boost its institutional capacity to predict and handle future volatility in migration to ease the sense of crisis hanging over national leaders, argues a new...
View ArticleHow Does Immigration Drive the Success of the Radical Right in Europe? New...
WASHINGTON — Though elections in Austria, Germany and France in 2017 and recent electoral outcomes in Italy and Hungary have demonstrated the rising power of radical-right parties in Europe, the...
View ArticleIntegrating Migration into Development Portfolios Carries Both Risks and Rewards
WASHINGTON — Spikes in irregular migration have prompted policymakers in the European Union, United States and elsewhere to look beyond border management for ways to address the underlying factors that...
View ArticleRadical-Right, Anti-Immigration Party in the Netherlands Has Significantly...
WASHINGTON — While Geert Wilders and his radical-right, anti-immigration Party for Freedom (PVV) failed to secure a victory in the 2017 Dutch parliamentary elections, the country’s experience shows...
View ArticlePolicymakers need new tools and better evidence for assessing returns on...
BRUSSELS – Billions of euros will be spent on efforts to integrate refugees in Europe over the next few years, so it is vital that policymakers use solid methods to monitor their spending on these...
View ArticleGlobal Compact Lays the Groundwork for International Cooperation on Migration
The United Nations has marked an important milestone: its members have agreed on the text of a wide-reaching agreement to cooperate on migration. The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular...
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