Lindsay Lennon, Cornellians "We have more migration across the world today than we ever have in the past, and it’s going to continue,” says Professor Stephen Yale-Loehr ’77, JD ’81, an expert on immigration law who served on the task force. “We need to understand...
Ariane de Vogue, CNN, Dec. 19, 2022 "“This is a longstanding problem, more people are fleeing persecution, gang violence, failed states and climate change than ever before,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr of Cornell Law School , who has been critical of the policy...
DHS, Apr. 27, 2023 "Today, the Department of State (State) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are announcing sweeping new measures to further reduce unlawful migration across the Western Hemisphere, significantly expand lawful pathways for protection...
Deepak Bhargava, Rich Stolz, Aug. 24, 2022 "Climate change and mass migration are reshaping politics, economies, and livelihoods around the world—and they are increasingly connected. Climate change has already forced people across the globe to leave their...
Muzaffar Chishti, Jessica Bolter, MPI, May 25, 2022 "The United States is witnessing a significant increase in unauthorized maritime migration from the Caribbean, which has been largely overshadowed by rising arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico land border. While...
NIPNLG, Dec. 21, 2021 "Over the past two decades, unauthorized entry and re-entry prosecutions have become the most commonly prosecuted federal crimes. Passed into law over a century ago with overtly white supremacist goals and rhetoric, their current impact...
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Dec. 7, 2021 " Much has been written recently about the number of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, but there’s been very little in depth information about people’s complex motivations for leaving home...
White House, Oct. 21, 2021 "In Executive Order 14013, President Biden called for an assessment of the impact climate change is having on migration. This assessment marks the first time the U.S. Government is officially recognizing and reporting on this...
Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan, Haim Malka and Shelly Culbertson, MPI, Oct. 2021 "Narratives are more than just words: They shape the way we see what surrounds us and what we think, believe, and do. How policymakers, community leaders, and members of the public...
eCornell Keynotes - MIGRATION IN THE MEDIA - Telling the Stories - Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 12pm EDT "In this moment of hyper-politicized border and migration issues, questions of representation are crucial. This roundtable of scholars, journalists...
MPI Policy Brief, May 30, 2019 "President Donald Trump’s proposal to “create a fair, modern, and lawful system of immigration” has, despite its high-profile Rose Garden rollout on May 16, met a decidedly lackluster reception, among Democrats and Republicans...
Muzaffar Chishti and Jessica Bolter, MPI, Mar. 28, 2019 "Under the Trump administration’s new Remain in Mexico policy, more than 200 asylum seekers have been sent back to Mexico by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to wait for weeks or longer until...
Carly Cassella, Science Alert, Mar. 18, 2019 "Over a hundred years ago, from 1850 to 1920, the United States of America experienced a wave of mass migration like never before - the highest levels in its history. While the topic of immigration remains a divisive...
Reporting on Migration from Obama to Trump "Cristian Farías, an editorial writer for the New York Times, will moderate a panel of print, digital, and broadcast journalists: Pilar Marrero, independent journalist, author of Killing the American Dream, and...
Muzaffar Chishti, Sarah Pierce, and Randy Capps, Migration Policy Institute, Feb. 28, 2019 "Despite a breakthrough bipartisan agreement to fund the federal government and avert another shutdown, a faceoff between the Trump administration and Congress on...