Each week during the COVID-19 crisis, we’ll publish a quick recap of our top three immigration-related storylines. Let us know what you think!

Since the 1990s, a significant part of the immigration reform debate has centered on whether the United States should change its legal immigration system to accept more high-skilled migrants. Although the debate has focused primarily on merit-based systems in countries like Canada, other immigration systems offer alternative ideas for selecting and keeping temporary high-skilled migrants. Check out our latest analysis of five different temporary-to-permanent immigration systems (United States, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Sweden), and the pros and cons each system presents in selecting and keeping high-skilled immigrants.

In this blog post, we examine this new type of asylum agreement compared to its predecessor, the U.S-Canada STCA, and begin to evaluate whether this new model is viable as a means of managing migration of asylum-seekers over the long term.

This Week in Immigration presents a special COVID-19 episode looking at the impacts to immigrants and the immigration system of the pandemic response, and how and whether the government is leaning on its normal border immigration strategy to try to block the virus. Guest Dr. Anand Parekh joins regulars Cris Ramón, Theresa Brown, and Jordan LaPier.

n this week’s episode, Host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón have a supersized version of ‘The Gavel’ for you. They discuss the lifting of injunctions against the Trump administration’s Public Charge rule, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision against MPP, and a federal judge’s recent ruling questioning Ken Cuccinelli’s appointment at USCIS.

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