December 8, 2023 Dear John, On behalf of my colleagues, I want to express my gratitude for your interest in and engagement with MPI this year. As you know, we work tirelessly to serve as a rare voice of pragmatism and reason in the immigration policy debate. We do so by developing and sharing the essential data, evidence-informed analysis, and pragmatic policy ideas that can help make migration management and protection systems meet ever-evolving challenges. As you make your year-end giving decisions, would you consider supporting our work? Our impact has been tangible. We are a leading voice encouraging practical steps for cooperation on migration at a time of especially high mobility throughout the Americas. We are working with a number of governments in the Americas to help fulfill the commitments made in the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection signed by the United States and 20 other countries. We are mapping the stresses on the U.S. immigration system through rigorous, evidence-informed analysis and proposing key solutions. This year, we did path-breaking work on the challenges facing the U.S. immigration courts system and a federal refugee resettlement consultations process with cities and states that should be broadened to include discussion of today’s large-scale flows of asylum seekers and other humanitarian migrants. We are playing a key role in thinking through how humanitarian protection systems worldwide can evolve to address record challenges. MPI is helping staff the Secretariat for the Resettlement Diplomacy Network (RDN), led by the U.S. Department of State with partner governments around the world, and we have been publishing research on practical ways of expanding humanitarian protection in innovative ways. We are working to deepen the integration of immigrants in the United States, for the well-being of themselves, their families, and the broader society. Through research and convenings, we are offering ideas on how K-12 education and adult education and workforce development systems can better meet the needs of individuals who may have limited proficiency in English, less access to technology, or interrupted education. In this highly polarized era, MPI remains deeply committed to being a resolutely nonpartisan, independent voice that works to generate well thought-out immigration and integration policies that work in the interest of all sectors of society, immigrant and native born alike. Will you consider making a gift to support our work in 2024? |