In late December, in a final act of political obstruction before handing the reins to a new Congress, Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan agreement that would have invested in border security infrastructure and established a path to permanent status for Dreamers. Unfortunately, prospects for resolving the inhumane legal limbo of…

November’s midterm elections shifted the political landscape with significant implications for immigration policy. Most clearly, it has undermined the prospects for creating a path to legal status for Dreamers in the next Congress. The likely next Speaker of the House has vowed to oppose any relief for DACA recipients, while…

October revealed unprecedented shifts in size, direction, and composition of migration in our Hemisphere. Mirroring record-high levels of mobility and displacement across the globe, the number of migrant encounters along the southern U.S. border in FY22 set a stunning new mark of 2.4 million. …

September marked the end of a tumultuous summer that saw an unprecedented number of climate-related disasters in the U.S. and across the globe. Those tragedies, which accelerate the movement of people within and across borders, helped belatedly propel climate migration into global policy discussions this month. The cynical transport of…

August provided a stark reminder that nativist politics continue to create significant immigration policy challenges at all levels of government. The governors of Texas and Arizona seek to sow chaos by rounding up and busing migrants to “blue cities” including Chicago, New York, and D.C. that lack reception infrastructure. The…

July provided a sliver of hope for small but meaningful bipartisan breakthroughs but was overall another tough month for immigrants and immigration. The DACA program is under existential threat — yet again — from an ultra-conservative federal court. Our collective failure to imagine, build, and manage a better migration system…

June provided hope for a more constructive approach to addressing accelerating migration throughout the Western Hemisphere. …

May was supposed to mark the end of Title 42, but flimsy lawsuits filed by a number of Republican governors have blocked the Administration’s efforts to terminate the disgraceful policy. Meanwhile, news broke of egregious misconduct by both CBP and ICE: CBP announced it will disband units responsible for protecting…

The courts drove immigration news this month: an onslaught of lawsuits could delay the Biden administration’s plan to rescind Title 42 and the Supreme Court heard arguments challenging the administration’s effort to end the Remain in Mexico program. Amid the Biden administration’s struggles to undo some of the most harmful…