More than half of Canada's population could be immigrants or children of immigrants by 2041 migrationpolicy.org/article/canada… "Its nearly 8.4 million immigrants as of 2021 comprised one of the 10 largest foreign-born populations globally & represented 23% of Canada’s total population"

Blog post highlighting an ACLU of Nebraska report on the Omaha immigration court has shocking stats The average master calendar hearing lasted 3.9 minutes Judges advised migrants of their rights in 18% of cases, 93 out of the 529 observed hearings aila.org/library/think-…

For those curious why border apprehensions spiked so dramatically under Title 42, there's an excellent postmortem here. In short, it was a poorly-designed policy with a ton of unintended effects that began just as the hemisphere was destabilized by COVID. migrationpolicy.org/article/title-…

People paroled in for a year+ are eligible for public benefits, but face a 5-year bar in most cases. Exceptions are SNAP for kids, and, *at state option*, Medicaid for kids & pregnant people. Some states also *choose* to provide additional, state-funded benefits to parolees

Sixteen GOP states are partnering with Stephen Miller's America First Legal to challenge a new parole program for immigrant family members of US citizens news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

How many Mexican, Guatemalan, Honduran, and Salvadoran citizens come to the U.S. through existing legal pathways? And how has this changed in recent years? Ariel Ruiz and I ran the numbers for MigrationPolicy Inst & Texas-Mexico Center and here they are: migrationpolicy.org/research/us-le…

The 1st cohort of refugee students sponsored through the Welcome Corps on Campus initiative will start college this fall The inaugural class includes more than 30 refugee students enrolled at 17 institutions presidentsalliance.org/press/the-welc…

USCIS continues to schedule biometric appointments for individuals with a pending Form I-131F, Application for Parole in Place for Certain Noncitizen Spouses & Stepchildren of U.S. Citizens, as permitted under the August 26, 2024, district court order. (1/4)