On October 14, the Bipartisan Policy Center and Heurich House Museum hosted the third and final panel in our series “Once Upon an American Dream.” The final event’s discussion focused on how immigrants of the past and present integrate into our communities, and featured panelists Rachel Peric of Welcoming America, Professor Tyler Anbinder, author of City of Dreams, and Jeff Alfaro, co-owner of JSquared Naturals. In case you missed the live stream, watch the recording of the discussion here.

On this week’s program, Host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón discuss the Trump Administration’s stiff new rules for H1-B visas, ICE’s recent campaign targeting sanctuary jurisdictions, and in this week’s edition of the Gavel, the team also discusses the Trump administration’s reimplementation of the public charge rule.

On this week’s episode, BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón bring on special guest Mack Eason of Cornell University as they discuss Mack’s proposal for a new points-based immigration system, and BPC’s new report on how Canada and Australia transitioned to their points-based systems. The team also discusses how Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing could impact a number of pending immigration-related cases and future executive actions on immigration.

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