Over the last two decades, Congress has considered multiple proposals for reforming the legal immigration system. One factor receiving little attention is the process of transitioning from our current immigration system to something new and revising it over time. On September 29 at 5 p.m. ET, join the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Immigration Project as they release their latest report Immigration Systems in Transition: Lessons for U.S. Immigration Reform from Australia and Canada. Featuring expert scholars on the Canadian, Australian, and Japanese immigration systems, we will discuss the history of their points-based immigration systems and what the United States can learn from their development.

On this week’s episode, we have a supersized edition of the Gavel with Host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón. They discuss the latest legal happenings in the courts for immigration policy, including the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco’s ruling to end TPS for several countries; the New York Southern District Court’s blocking of the implementation of President Trump’s July 2020 memo that excludes unauthorized immigrants from the Census count; and the latest cases surrounding the treatment of immigrant children in government custody.

On this week’s episode, we take a look back from earlier this summer to our second panel event in partnership with the Heurich House Museum in Washington, DC. In our three part-panel series “Once Upon an American Dream,” examining the immigrant experience, this discussion focused on the Black immigrant experience in America, with panelists Dr. Anthony Greene, Professor of African-American Studies at the University of Charleston, Mr. Manyang Kher, Founder of 734 Coffee,-The Face of Sudan, and refugee advocate, BPC’s Theresa Cardinal Brown, and our moderator, Allen Orr, Esq., president-Elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

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