This Week in Immigration gives you a rundown of key immigration issues. Experts from the Bipartisan Policy Center discuss and analyze all that is new and noteworthy on immigration policy.
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In the 200th and final episode of "This Week in Immigration," host Jack Malde and BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown reflect on the Bipartisan Policy Center's decade-long involvement in immigration reform. Joined by Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, they discuss the achievements and challenges faced by the BPC's Immigration Task Force. The episode delves…
In this week's episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown sits down with Wendy Edelberg of the Brookings Institution and Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute to discuss their recent report, Immigration Policy and Its Macroeconomic Effects in the Second Trump Administration. We explore how immigration policy choices, specifically enforcement and legal immigration restrictions,…
In this week's episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown sits down with Amanda Bergson- Shilcock , senior fellow at the National Skills Coalition , to discuss the importance of our workforce development system, the urgent need to address skills gaps and the role that immigrants can play in meeting them. It's a workforce-centric episode on This Week in Immigration . National Skills…
In this week's episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown sits down with Morris Levy, associate professor of Political Science and International Relations at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, to explore a recent study he co-authored , Integration Policy Specifics and Public Support for Increasing Immigration . The study presents results from three survey experiments…
This week, we're re-releasing an episode from May 2024 featuring an interview with Alexander Kustov on his forthcoming book, In Our Interest: How to Make Immigration Popular. The book was recently published on April 29, 2025, making now an opportune time to revisit the conversation. In the episode, Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown and Associate Director Jack Malde speak with Kustov, Assistant…
In this week's episode of This Week in Immigration , BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown discusses the implications of a recent executive order that has sought to limit birthright citizenship in the United States. Immigration attorney and MacArthur Fellow Margaret Stock explains what current law says about who qualifies for U.S. citizenship, drawing on her years of experience helping U.S.…
In this week's episode of This Week in Immigration , BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown discusses the Trump administration's actions to rescind foreign students' status in the U.S. with two experts. Steve Springer from NAFSA explains the roles of educational institutions, students, and the government in maintaining student status and the implications of recent changes on international…
In this week's episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown interviews Associate Director Jack Malde about BPC's new report Bridging the Gap: Meeting Workforce Needs Over the Next Decade . The report uses a data-driven approach to identify the occupations and industries at the highest risk of workforce shortages over the next decade , with healthcare leading the list . Then, Jack interviews…
In this week's episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown sits down with Angelo Paparelli , a long-time immigration law expert, and Jeremy Neufeld from the Institute for Progress to discuss the H-1B visa lottery system. They explore the history of the lottery, recent policy changes, and ongoing reform debates, including Jeremy's proposal for a compensation-based model that prioritizes…
In this week's episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown sits down with Robert Warren from the Center for Migration Studies, Jeffrey Passel from the Pew Research Center, and Jennifer Van Hook from the Migration Policy Institute to discuss methodologies used to estimate the unauthorized immigrant population, the recent trends in those estimates, and how they are used and understood (or…
