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This Week in Immigration

Dec 20, 2021

For this final episode of 2021, we’re looking back at the big inflection points and emerging trends from this past year. Our guests this week are Suzanne Monyak, who covers immigration and Congress at CQ Roll Call, and Dara Lind, who covers immigration policy for ProPublica and is a regular co-host of Vox’s...


Dec 6, 2021

In this week’s episode, host Blake Johnson is joined by Theresa Cardinal Brown to discuss the most recent immigration news, including travel restrictions related to the latest COVID variant, the status of immigration in reconciliation on Capitol Hill, and the restart of the Remain in Mexico policy. Then, BPC...


Nov 22, 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? For this week’s episode, Theresa Cardinal Brown and Sadikshya Nepal are...


Nov 15, 2021

In October, Customs and Border Protection released its official migrant numbers for fiscal year 2021 where reports showed U.S. authorities had detained migrants more than 1.7 million times along the border. In this week’s episode Theresa Cardinal Brown is joined...


Nov 1, 2021

On this week’s episode, Theresa Cardinal Brown is joined by guests Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of U.S. Immigration Policy at the Migration Policy Institute, and Ruth Wasem, BPC Fellow and Professor of Public Policy Practice at the University of Texas at Austin to discuss their new MPI report entitled...