This Week in Immigration – Details, episodes & analysis

In this week’s episode, we’re re-releasing a conversation from September 2021. BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown reflects on how the 9/11 terrorist attacks reshaped our immigration system, and what it looked like before that pivotal day. 

In this week’s episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown talks to Michelle Hackman, a US immigration reporter at the Wall Street Journal, about a recent decline in border crossings and to what extent we can credit the Biden Administration and its cooperation with Mexico. Then, Theresa and BPC Associate Director Jack Malde discuss the Biden Administration’s “Keeping Families Together” program which grants parole in place to certain noncitizen spouses and noncitizen stepchildren of U.S. citizens, and was implemented this week. Theresa and Jack cover how the program may work and some potential concerns. 

Wall St. Journal Border Reporting: How the U.S. and Mexico Drove Border Crossings Down in an Election Year - WSJ 

Parole in Place for Spouses of U.S. Citizens: Keeping Families Together | USCIS 

Opening (00:00)

Michelle Hackman and Border Crossing Declines (01:03)

"Keeping Families Together" (42:00)

Credits (01:01:20)

In this week’s episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown and Senior Policy Analyst Jack Malde chat with Camille Mackler, the Founder and Executive Director of Immigrant ARC (I-ARC), a collaborative of over 80 legal service providers in New York State. I-ARC works with community leaders, legal service providers, state and local governments, law enforcement agencies, and Federal agencies and policymakers to ensure immigrants have access to a fair and efficient immigration system. We discuss I-ARC’s beginnings, the challenges it faces, its work helping newly arrived immigrants get work permits, and how federal, state, and local governments can help. 

Read more about I-ARC: https://www.immigrantarc.org/ 

On this week’s episode, Host Jordan LaPier, along with BPC regular Cris Ramón, discuss immigration in party platforms and changes to the administration’s limits on non-immigrant visas. BPC's Rachel Iacono and Sadikshya Nepal join us to break down each of these issues in detail, and BPC's David Lapan returns to discuss new questions on DHS leadership.