Ep. 171: Do Legal Pathways Reduce Illegal Entries? And the Economic Impact of Immigration Restrictions
Release Date: 06/04/2024
Ep. 192: Healthcare Workforce Shortages and Immigration’s Vital Role
This Week in Immigration
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 Cassandra Zimmer-Wong, Immigration Policy Analyst at the Niskanen Center, about her report investigating how immigration reform can address healthcare workforce shortages. Bridging the Gap:...
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Ep. 191: Fixing the H-1B Lottery
This Week in Immigration
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 higher-paid positions. Tune in for an in-depth look at the future of high-skilled immigration policy.
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Ep. 190: Estimating the Unauthorized Immigrant Population
This Week in Immigration
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 misunderstood) in public policy debates. Center for Migration Studies: US Undocumented Population Increased to 11.7 Million in July 2023: Provisional CMS Estimates Derived from CPS Data - ...
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Ep. 189: How to Fix High-Skilled Immigration to Maximize American Interests
This Week in Immigration
In this week’s episode, Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown sits down with Dr. Adam Ozimek, Chief Economist at the Economic Innovation Group, and Connor O’Brien, Research and Policy Analyst at EIG, to explore their latest report, Exceptional by Design: How to Fix High-Skilled Immigration to Maximize American Interests. They discuss the economic benefits of high-skilled immigration, challenge common misconceptions shaping current policy debates, and outline reforms needed to ensure the United States remains globally competitive. Exceptional by Design: How to Fix High-Skilled...
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Ep. 188: BPC’s Commission on the American Workforce and Immigration’s Important Role
This Week in Immigration
In this week’s episode, Associate Director Jack Malde talks to Executive Vice President of Human Capital, Cheryl Oldham, about BPC’s recently launched Commission on the American Workforce – a bold initiative to develop a national, bipartisan strategy to strengthen the workforce, expand economic opportunity, and ensure the United States remains competitive. Jack and Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown then discuss the role that immigration might play in this strategy. BPC’s Commission on the American Workforce: BPC’s Human Capital Program:
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Ep. 187: The Outlook for Immigration Policy Under a New Congress and Presidency
This Week in Immigration
In this week’s episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown talks to Jon Baselice from the US Chamber of Commerce and Debu Gandhi from the Centre for American Progress about the outlook for immigration policy under a new Congress and presidency. They cover what we have learned so far and what we can expect under a GOP-trifecta.
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Ep. 186 - News Roundup: H-1Bs Divide Trump Troops, Immigration Nominations and Congressional Updates
This Week in Immigration
In this week’s episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown and Associate Director Jack Malde round up some recent news in US immigration policy from the end of 2024 and the first weeks of 2025. They discuss recent disagreements within the Republican party on H-1B visas, President-elect Trump’s immigration position nominations, and where things stand on the concept of “mass deportations.” They also cover Congressional updates including potential action on immigration through the budget reconciliation process, the Congressional Review Act, and the House of Representatives passing...
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Ep. 185: The Role Immigration Played in the Recent Elections
This Week in Immigration
In this week’s episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown talks to three reporters about the role that immigration played in the recent presidential and congressional elections. Theresa is joined by Myah Ward from Politico, Priscilla Alvarez from CNN, and Marianne LeVine from the Washington Post. They discuss how immigration featured in various campaigns, how pivotal immigration was in determining the election results, and how this compares to previous elections.
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Ep. 184: Plyler v. Doe - A High-Stakes Court Battle and Its Implications (re-release)
This Week in Immigration
In this week’s episode, we’re re-releasing a conversation from May 2022. The leak of the Supreme Court draft decision that would overturn the seminal Roe v. Wade abortion case has sent shockwaves through the country and raises questions and implications for other long-standing precedent Supreme Court decisions, including Plyler v. Doe, a 1982 decision that ruled that undocumented immigrant children could not be excluded from K through 12 public schools. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has expressed interest in resurrecting the case and challenging the ruling. Leon Fresco, an immigration...
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Ep. 183: Thanksgiving Traditions - Immigrant Perspectives (re-release)
This Week in Immigration
In this week’s episode, we’re re-releasing a conversation from November 2021. Every year millions of families across the country gather to celebrate that quintessential American holiday: Thanksgiving. It is a story of immigration. But how do the millions of recently-arrived immigrants to this country view this holiday? Theresa Cardinal Brown and Sadikshya Nepal are joined by Rachel Peric, Executive Director of Welcoming America, and several BPC staff members to discuss how families combine traditions to make this holiday their own.
info_outlineIn this week’s episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown talks with Michael Clemens, professor of economics at George Mason University, who has studied the economic causes and effects of migration all over the world. His latest research, based on detailed examination of border crossing data, shows that offering more lawful pathways to immigrants reduces unlawful border crossings. We also talk about the importance of good data for examining immigration policy and how traditional understandings of the linkages between migration and development may not be correct.
Michael Clemens Bio: Economics | Faculty and Staff: Michael A Clemens (gmu.edu)
PIIE Article: Offering more lawful pathways for US border crossings reduces unlawful crossings | PIIE
Journal of Economic Perspectives Article: Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? - American Economic Association (aeaweb.org)