

This Week in Immigration
Bipartisan Policy Center
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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Oct 6, 2020 • 35min
Episode 75: This Week in Immigration
On this week's episode, Host Jordan LaPier, along with BPC regular Cris Ramón, discuss immigration in party platforms and changes to the administration's limits on non-immigrant visas. BPC's Rachel Iacono and Sadikshya Nepal join us to break down each of these issues in detail, and BPC's David Lapan returns to discuss new questions on DHS leadership.

Oct 5, 2020 • 47min
Episode 78: This Week in Immigration
On this week's episode, BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón bring on special guest Mack Eason of Cornell University as they discuss Mack's proposal for a new points-based immigration system, and BPC's new report on how Canada and Australia transitioned to their points-based systems. The team also discusses how Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing could impact a number of pending immigration-related cases and future executive actions on immigration.

Sep 21, 2020 • 37min
Episode 77: This Week in Immigration
On this week's episode, we have a supersized edition of the Gavel with Host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón. They discuss the latest legal happenings in the courts for immigration policy, including the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco's ruling to end TPS for several countries; the New York Southern District Court's blocking of the implementation of President Trump's July 2020 memo that excludes unauthorized immigrants from the Census count; and the latest cases surrounding the treatment of immigrant children in government custody.

Sep 8, 2020 • 57min
Episode 76: This Week in Immigration
On this week's episode, we take a look back from earlier this summer to our second panel event in partnership with the Heurich House Museum in Washington, DC. In our three part-panel series "Once Upon an American Dream," examining the immigrant experience, this discussion focused on the Black immigrant experience in America, with panelists Dr. Anthony Greene, Professor of African-American Studies at the University of Charleston, Mr. Manyang Kher, Founder of 734 Coffee,-The Face of Sudan, and refugee advocate, BPC's Theresa Cardinal Brown, and our moderator, Allen Orr, Esq., president-Elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Aug 10, 2020 • 33min
Episode 74: This Week in Immigration
On this week's episode, Host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón take a look at the Trump administration's latest DACA memo in response to the Supreme Court decision in June; responses to ICE holding unaccompanied children in hotels at the border before expelling them and the "binary choice" being placed upon families in ICE detention; and the immigration provisions in the latest proposed COVID-19 relief bills.

Jul 27, 2020 • 37min
Episode 73: This Week in Immigration
On this week's episode, Host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón discuss the Trump administration's new efforts to bar the Census Bureau from counting unauthorized immigrants for allotting Congressional seats among the states, and the Trump Administration rescinding its international student ban after significant backlash. And BPC's David Lapan joins us to discuss the DHS' presence in Portland, the authorities that allow them to be deployed and the concerns about how it is being handled.

Jul 13, 2020 • 35min
Episode 72: This Week in Immigration
On this week's episode, Host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón discuss the Trump administration's announcement requiring in-person classes for all foreign university students, the potential furlough of 70% of USCIS employees because of a decline in fees from applications, and the latest developments around building a physical and virtual border wall.

Jun 29, 2020 • 37min
Episode 71: This Week in Immigration
On this week's episode, Host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón discuss last week's Supreme Court DACA decision and how the Trump administration is stepping up its efforts to limit legal immigration during the pandemic. We also bring on special guest Ruth Wasem, Professor of Public Policy Practice at the LBJ School at the University of Texas in Austin, and a BPC Fellow, to discuss America's modern asylum system and the latest developments in the Trump administration's asylum regulations.

Jun 15, 2020 • 36min
Episode 70: This Week in Immigration
In the wake of the death of George Floyd and others, host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón examine topics surrounding immigration law enforcement and racism, including the call to abolish ICE; the relationship between immigration prosecutions and non-citizen populations in federal custody and potential mirrors to the over-incarceration of black people in the U.S.; and the role race has played throughout the history of the U.S. immigration system.

Jun 1, 2020 • 27min
Episode 69: This Week in Immigration
In this week's episode, Host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón discuss a new BPC-Morning Consult survey that gauged voters' responses to President Trump's executive order from April, the rumors of President Trump's plans to issue a new executive order addressing temporary work visas, and how the U.S. and countries around the world are taking steps toward reopening.


