Immigration

  • Learn about the new immigration plan: a lost opportunity

    The new immigration reform plan negotiated by Democratic and Republican senators over the past few months, which finally saw the light of day this week, can only be described as a missed opportunity. Knowing that no bill would have a chance of passing unless it made significant concessions to...
  • Immigration issues will be crucial in the next elections

    For the first time in many election cycles, immigration is emerging as the main issue of concern in the minds of voters. Polls in the first two stages of the 2024 electoral political calendar, the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary elections confirmed that the economy and jobs...
  • Will there be immigration relief for the undocumented?

    When President Joe Biden granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to nearly half a million Venezuelans in September, his critics argued that it was an incentive for other groups to seek similar relief. The president did the right thing by granting this immigration relief because, in effect, Venezuelans faced serious...
  • Who should solve the immigration crisis in New York?

    The immigration crisis in New York has escalated with the arrival of around 100,000 immigrants in the last year, many of them fleeing Venezuela. If New York Mayor Eric Adams’ estimates of more than $12 billion in spending over three years are correct, it is clear that neither the...
  • End of Title 42: new immigration measures from the Biden government

    It will not be easy to find a single person who applauds the new immigration policy of the Biden era. His decision to end Title 42 was a courageous one, after all it was a relic of the Trump era that closed the door on more than 2 million...
  • At least 39 migrants die after fire at immigration center

    The flames that set fire to the detention center of the National Migration Institute (INM) in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, which cost the lives of 39 Central and South American migrants and injured 29 others, had been simmering. According to the first official investigations, cited by the Diario de Juárez,...
  • Why did Biden spend just one minute on immigration reform?

    During his second State of the Union Address, the highest rostrum in the Republic, President Joe Biden spent just over a minute on the issue of immigration reform. Speaking to the nation, the president called on both parties to make migration a bipartisan issue again. But in the end,...
  • Will the North American Leadership Summit Result in Substantive Immigration Policy Change?

    President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Jan. 10 to discuss the U.S.-Mexico-Canada relationship. The meeting focused heavily on immigration. In this interview, Ariel Ruiz Soto, policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute discusses the summit, and significant policy changes...
  • Elections and immigration: Senate talks get complicated

    More than eight months before the November elections, which put in dispute the 435 seats in the House of Representatives, a third of the Senate, dozens of governorships and thousands of popularly elected positions, migration is emerging as the defining issue of the electoral process. It is true that...
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