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What's Happening at BPC's Immigration Project
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This month’s newsletter highlights our brief on administrative vs. criminal law, our latest podcast episodes, and recent press highlights. If you have any questions or want more info, email [email protected].
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Several Democratic presidential candidates have included in their policy platforms support for “decriminalizing” illegal border crossings. What would “decriminalizing” illegal border crossing actually mean? Much of the confusion around these issues is because of the nature of immigration enforcement itself—is it “criminal” or “civil” enforcement? This brief seeks to answer those questions.
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The first three months of fiscal year 2020 show that apprehensions have continued to decline as fewer families arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border. However, Mexican immigration enforcement data and U.S. Migration Protection Protocol data suggests that Mexico’s clampdown and the MPP program may be producing diminishing returns in further reducing apprehensions.
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Host Jordan LaPier is joined by regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón, as well as BPC’s VP of Communications and former Pentagon and DHS spokesperson, David Lapan, to discuss the transfer of military funds to fund the border wall and immigration project associate, Rachel Iacono, to discuss the impact on H-1B decisions of the Buy American, Hire American executive order.
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In this week’s episode, we kick off the new year with host Jordan LaPier, Theresa Cardinal Brown, and Cris Ramón as they discuss news about Mexican asylum applicants being removed to Guatemala, what data do we know about Remain in Mexico and its impact, why some migrants will be required to submit DNA samples at the border, and the news about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex with an immigration spin to it.
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To conclude 2019, host Jordan LaPier is joined by Theresa Cardinal Brown, Cris Ramón, and Laura Hall to recap the top immigration stories of 2019 and discuss 2020 expectations.
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Click HERE for previous podcast episodes.
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