Useful MPI Resources

Useful MPI resources:

• A report cataloguing the more than 400 executive actions on immigration undertaken by the Trump administration, organized by topic and listing dates of actions.
• A recent article in MPI’s online journal detailing the policy proposals advanced by the Biden campaign (and the Trump one as well); see Table 1 in particular.
• An article examining the Trump administration’s unfulfilled promise of bringing ICE arrests and deportations to new highs, and its turn to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for a greater role in enforcement.
• An article, with state-by-state data, examining the mixed-status families left out of the CARES Act relief payments and those who might benefit under pending legislation that would extend CARES Act assistance.
• MPI’s Data Hub, with:
  
  • U.S. and state demographic profiles of the overall immigrant population and the unauthorized immigrant population
    
  • Data on DACA recipients and those meeting criteria to apply under the original program
  • U.S. unemployment trends before and during the pandemic by immigrant status, gender, race/ethnicity, education level and industry of employment
  • Refugee ceilings and actual admissions from fiscal year 1980 through 2020.

For more information or to set up an interview, contact MPI Communications Director Michelle Mittelstadt at mmittelstadt@migrationpolicy.org or 202-266-1910.

The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank in Washington, D.C. dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide. MPI provides analysis, development and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national and international levels. For more on MPI, please visit www.migrationpolicy.org.