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…

Panama announces more migrant deportation flights to Ecuador, India and China - reuters.com/world/americas…

An intriguing idea from ⁦Cassandra Zimmer ⁦Niskanen Center on skilled migration⁩: We should replicate Conrad 30 for J-1 trainees niskanencenter.org/we-should-repl…

Terrific analysis from Andrew Selee Ariel Ruiz on an encouraging trend in the migration space. Use of these legal pathways can benefit communities of origin AND host communities, as MigrationPolicy Inst research has shown - and are far safer for migrants themselves.

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…

Belgium🇧🇪, Ireland🇮🇪, Italy🇮🇹 & Portugal🇵🇹 have refugee labor mobility pathways that seek to connect their employers with refugees in first-asylum countries with in-demand skills. Learn more about this policy innovation⤵️ migrationpolicy.org/research/emplo…

"Almost every year in the last 10, nearly 1 million people from around the 🌎 have been issued immigrant visas & become lawful permanent residents" (except for 2020-21 period). Mexicans represent 13%-15% of all new LPRs. 🇲🇽🇺🇲 📝Report MigrationPolicy Inst migrationpolicy.org/research/us-le…

Want to know how to use monitoring&evaluation to enhance complementary pathways?Check our new fact sheet from EU COMET project! Other MPI Europe fact sheets in this series cover approaches to matching, refugee expectation management & volunteer engagement.tinyurl.com/53n5d6kv

A great read for Labor Day weekend when we celebrate workers. “People forget that everything they eat is likely to have been touched by somebody who didn’t have papers,” nytimes.com/2024/08/26/din… via @NYTimes

Highlights from today's Americas Migration Brief include: ➡️ 🇺🇸 restarts humanitarian parole program for 🇨🇺🇭🇹🇳🇮🇻🇪 ➡️ Labor inclusion of migrant women in 🇨🇴 ➡️ Migrant deaths in 🇨🇱🇲🇽 and Caribbean ➡️ Updates on 🇨🇦 new limits on labor migration pathways

Join us 🗓️Sept. 30 as we convene top experts in & out of government, service providers, legal experts & others to unpack top immigration issues 🎟️Get your ticket to attend our flagship immigration conference in DC or online: bit.ly/immconf2024

New from Valerie Lacarte MigrationPolicy Inst : How much labor market competition exists between immigrant workers and native-born Black workers in the US?

Global climate change is being felt disproportionately in the Arctic. That’s spurring new patterns of movement & displacement Miriam Cullen & Matthew Scott walk through the changes on the NEW episode of our podcast Changing Climate, Changing Migration …gclimatechangingmigration.podbean.com/e/nordic-clima…

The real immigration debate looking forward—how do we match supply and demand to maintain an economic edge? Here two Ohio mayors weigh in: Why Columbus, Ohio's economic and cultural boom needs more refugees usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

Nuestro país ha mostrado su firme convicción democrática, que rechaza rotundamente las amenazas de regresión autoritaria. Hoy reafirmamos ese compromiso y damos de vuelta la solidaridad internacional que tantas veces hemos recibido, acogiendo a 135 hermanos nicaragüenses, presos

The Guatemalan government is receiving the 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners released today.

Just in: Denver Mayor @MikeJohnstonCo will keynote the flagship immigration conference we're putting on Sept. 30 with partners CLINIC Georgetown Law RSVP to join us online to learn how Denver has responded to significant border arrivals👇 bit.ly/immconf2024

“Harris has been very focused on her support for the bipartisan Senate border bill and all that that would encompass…” said ⁦colleenputzelkav⁩, associate policy analyst for the U.S. immigration policy program ⁦⁦MigrationPolicy Inst⁩ washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigra…

New FR government, new Commission, new Pact, new UK government, is there room for an actual reset? As appetite grows for a new deal, key to embed it into broader cooperation, less shiny but to bring greater impacts, as Meghan Benton & I outline here: shorturl.at/bT52s

Rigorous research that shows what others (including Michael Clemens) have documented in other ways, which is that it generally isn’t the poorest who migrate… Well worth reading…