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Thinking Regionally to Compete Globally: A New View on Migration and Human Capital for the United States, Mexico, and Central America
A panel discussion on the release of the Regional Migration Study Group's final report, outlining its findings and offering recommendations to policymakers in the region. With Co-Chairs Carlos Gutierrez, former US Secretary of Commerce, and Eduardo Stein, former Vice President and Foreign Minister of Guatemala. Joined by MPI President Demetrios Papademetriou; Doris Meissner, Director of MPI's US Immigration Policy Program; and Andrew Selee, Vice President for Programs, Wilson Center.
May 6, 2013 | National Press Club, Washington, DC
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Sharing Lessons, Sharing Responsibility: Combating Human Trafficking
A discussion on Dutch, US, and international experiences in preventing human trafficking, with speakers Herman Bolhaar, Chair of the Dutch Public Prosecution Service; Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen, National Rapporteur for Human Trafficking in The Netherlands; Jane Nady Sigmon, Senior Advisor to the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, US Department of State; Jack Blakey, Chief of the Special Prosecutions Bureau, Cook County, Illinois State Attorney’s Office; and MPI President Demetrios Papademetriou.
April 25, 2013
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Changing Dynamics: Immigration, Mexico, and the United States
A discussion with H.E. Eduardo Medina Mora, Mexico’s Ambassador to the United States , and MPI’s Demetrios Papademetriou and Doris Meissner, on the changing dynamics of Mexico’s economy, demographics, and large-scale emigration, and their implications for both Mexico and the United States.
April 5, 2013
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Investing Wisely in the Future: How the U.S. Immigration System Can Better Meet U.S. Labor Market Needs
The release of MPI's book Immigrants in a Changing Labor Market and discussion with Jason Furman, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic Council; Harry Holzer, Georgetown University Professor of Public Policy; Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President; Madeleine Sumption, MPI Senior Policy Analyst; and Michael Fix, MPI Senior Vice President.
March 27, 2013
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The Fundamentals of Immigration Reform
MPI's President, Demetrios Papademetriou, and the Editor-in-Chief of The American Prospect, Kit Rachlis, discuss the policies and politics that have created the United States' immigration system and how to create a modern-day, flexible immigration system suited for 21st century competitiveness.
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Avoiding the Pitfalls on the Road to Reform: Issues that Must Be Addressed to Build an Effective US Immigration System
A discussion on some of the most complex issues that must be addressed for effective reform of the US immigration system, featuring MPI experts Doris Meissner, Michael Fix, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, and Muzaffar Chishti.
March 19, 2013
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Immigration and US Economic Competitiveness: A View from the Midwest
Co-sponsored by MPI, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and ImmigrationWorks USA, this is the release event for the report of The Chicago Council's independent task force on US Economic Competitiveness at Risk: A Midwest Call to Action on Immigration Reform. This summit with the task force co-chairs introduced attendees to immigration initiatives being undertaken throughout the Midwest to promote the region’s economic competitiveness.
February 28, 2013
National Press Club, Washington, DC
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Critical Immigration, Health, and Education Policies Affecting Young Children of Immigrants
A conference with leading experts in health, education, and immigration policy discussing public policies affecting the young children of immigrants. Click here for audio and video of the conference panels.
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Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery
Release of a major report that describes and analyzes the immigration enforcement system in the United States as it has developed and grown in the quarter century since the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 launched the current era of enforcement. January 7, 2013
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Young Children of Black Immigrants in America: Changing Flows, Changing Faces
Book release event with US Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy Ajay Chaudry; Gerald D. Jaynes, Yale University Departments of Economics and African-American Studies; and chapter authors Dylan Patricia Conger, from the George Washington University School of Public Policy and Public Administration, and Kevin Thomas of Pennsylvania State University ; with volume editors Randy Capps and Michael Fix, both of MPI.
December 14, 2012
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Rethinking National Identity in the Age of Migration
A discussion on the anti-immigrant political movement in both Europe and the United States and its implications for community cohesion and national identity, with Patrick Simon, Institut national d’études démographiques, Cas Mudde, University of Georgia; Charles Kamasaki, National Council of La Raza; Frank Sharry, America’s Voice; and moderated by MPI President Demetrios G. Papademetriou.
October 24, 2012
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9th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
The conference features discussion on current immigration policy issues by senior officials from US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, immigration law experts, state officials, and immigration advocates. Topics covered include: analysis of the role of states and the federal government in immigration law; immigration policy and the 2012 campaigns; the implementation of the Administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and other legal service provision issues; and US policy on protection for refugees and asylees.
October 1, 2012
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2012 E Pluribus Unum Prizes
The winners of the Migration Policy Institute's 2012 E Pluribus Unum Prizes, honoring exceptional immigrant integration initiatives in the United States, discussed their work during a plenary luncheon on September 24, 2012 at the National Immigrant Integration Conference held in Baltimore, MD. During a Q&A with MPI’s Michael Fix, leaders with ACCESS (the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services), Building Skills Partnership, Californians Together, and Citi Community Development discussed key aspects of their work. At discussion's end, the winners received their E Pluribus Unum Prizes from Brad Davidson, a trustee of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, which generously funds the prizes program.
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The New Deferred Action Program: Strategies for Success
US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas discusses the implementation of the new deferred action program, followed by a panel discussion with National Immigration Law Center Executive Director Marielena Hincapié, DHS Former Principal Deputy General Counsel David A. Martin, and MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Doris Meissner, Former Commissioner of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service.
August 7, 2012
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Unaccompanied Minors and Their Journey through the US Immigration System
A discussion with Michelle Brané, Director of the Detention and Asylum program, Women's Refugee Commission; Jessica Jones, Equal Justice Works Fellow, Detention and Asylum Program, Women's Refugee Commission; Wendy Young, Executive Director of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND); and Kathleen Newland, Director of the MPI Refugee Policy program.
July 30, 2012
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The Role of National Governments in Promoting Immigrant Integration: How Can and How Are Different Countries Supporting Integration?
A discussion with Rosario Farmhouse, High Commissioner for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue in Portugal; Alejandro Mayorkas, Director, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, US Department of Homeland Security; Jasenko Selimovic, State Secretary to the Minister for Integration in Sweden; Peter Sylvester, Associate Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada; and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
May 23, 2012
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Federal Update: A Conversation on Language Access with the US Department of Justice
This MPI webinar features US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials discussing the department’s efforts to improve communications with Limited English Proficient (LEP) communities in federal and federally-funded programs and activities. Laureen Laglagaron, an Attorney-Advisor in the department’s Federal Coordination and Compliance Section of the Civil Rights Division, Christine Stoneman, Special Counsel in the Federal Coordination and Compliance Section, and Emily McCarthy, Deputy Chief of the Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights Division, provide an update on the progress of language access compliance at the federal level and discuss how the agency is continuing to provide oversight and technical assistance to states and localities as they too attempt to meet their language access responsibilities. This webinar is moderated by Chhandasi Pandya, a policy analyst at MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy.
May 8, 2012
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Up for Grabs: The Gains and Prospects of First- and Second-Generation Young Adults
A discussion on the gains that young adult immigrants or the US-born children of immigrants have made in education and employment, with speakers: Michael Fix, MPI Senior Vice President; Jeanne Batalova, MPI Policy Analyst; Andrew P. Kelly, Research Fellow, Education Policy, American Enterprise Institute; Raul Gonzalez, Director of Legislative Affairs, National Council of La Raza; and Margie McHugh, Co-Director, MPI National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy.
December 7, 2011
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Through the Prism of National Security: Major Immigration Policy and Program Changes in the Decade since 9/11
The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) held a conference call to discuss the most significant changes that have occurred in the immigration arena in the decade since the September 11, 2001 attacks. MPI Senior Fellow Doris Meissner, commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service during the 1990s, and Muzaffar Chishti, director of MPI’s office at NYU School of Law, provided analysis on the realignment of the U.S. immigration system – ranging from new enforcement programs and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security to changed visa policies and the rise of state and local actors. Both are co-authors of MPI’s new Fact Sheet, Through the Prism of National Security: Major Immigration Policy and Program Changes in the Decade since 9/11, which details the major immigration policy, budget and organizational changes that have occurred as an outgrowth of 9/11.
August 26, 2011
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Labor Standards Enforcement and Low-Wage Immigrants: Creating an Effective Enforcement System
This Migration Policy Institute webinar discusses labor enforcement laws during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations and chronicles gaps in labor protection. Donald M. Kerwin, MPI Vice President for Programs and author of MPI’s report, Labor Standards Enforcement and Low-Wage Immigrants: Creating an Effective Enforcement System, argues that enforcement of labor laws should become a higher priority, particularly amid high rates of unemployment and underemployment. He also discusses the view that labor standards enforcement should become a pillar of immigration policymaking and sketches the elements necessary for an effective labor standards enforcement system.
July 14, 2011
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Migration and the Great Recession: The Transatlantic Experience
The release event for MPI’s book, Migration and the Great Recession: The Transatlantic Experience, which reviews how the financial and economic crisis of the late 2000s marked a sudden and dramatic interruption in international migration trends, and the effects of the economic turmoil on immigrant workers in major immigrant-receiving countries in Europe as well as the United States. What will be the legacy of the crisis for immigrant workers and their families in coming years? How have the impacts of the recession on immigrant workers themselves, and responses of publics and politicians, differed on both sides of the Atlantic? Speakers are: volume editors Demetrios Papademetriou, Madeleine Sumption, and Aaron Terrazas, of MPI; Chad Stone, Chief Economist, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; and Gallya Lahav, Associate Professor of Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
June 13, 2011
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Immigration and Competitiveness: Responding to Global Challenges in the EU and US
Showcasing joint research by MPI and the European University Institute and funded by the European Commission, this event featured discussion on some of the most promising reform proposals on both sides of the Atlantic. Speakers were: Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and former Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden; Antonio de Lecea, Principal Advisor for Economic and Financial Affairs, Delegation of the European Union to the United States; Pia Orrenius, Senior Economist, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; and Demetrios Papademetriou, MPI’s President and convener of the Transatlantic Council on Migration.
June 7, 2011
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E Pluribus Unum Prizes Panel Discussions and Awards Ceremony
This awards ceremony, honoring the 2011 recipients of the E Pluribus Unum Prizes -- a national awards program for exceptional immigrant integration initiatives -- featured panel discussions with the awardees and federal officials and remarks by White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz and Assistant Secretary of Education Brenda Dann-Messier.
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8th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
This conference featured immigration law and policy analysis by representatives from states and localities such as Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and Prince William County (VA) Police Chief Charlie Deane, and a range of other government officials, practitioners, and immigration law experts.
April 26, 2011
Georgetown University Law Center
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Lessons from the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act
Discussion on new Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) report with PPIC Research Fellows Sarah Bohn and Magnus Lofstrom; Bruce A. Morrison, Former US Congressman from Connecticut (1983-1991) and Chair of the Immigration Subcommittee; and Marc Rosenblum, MPI Senior Policy Analyst.
March 18, 2011
MPI Conference Room
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Steps to Fix the US Immigration System: What Can the Administration Do?
MPI report release with Donald Kerwin, Vice President for Programs, MPI; Margie McHugh, Co-Director, MPI National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy; Doris Meissner, Director of US Immigration Policy Program and Senior Fellow, MPI; Eva Millona, Executive Director, Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition; and Juan P. Osuna, Acting Director, Executive Office for Immigration Review, US Department of Justice.
Monday, March 14, 2011
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Delegation and Divergence: 287(g) State and Local Immigration Enforcement
MPI Report release with Randy Capps, MPI Demographer and Senior Policy Analyst; Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director, Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials; Captain LeRoy Kirkegard, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department; and Muzaffar Chishti, Director of MPI's Office at NYU School of Law.
January 31, 2011
First Floor Conference Room, MPI Building
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Does Low-Skilled Immigration Hurt the US Economy? Assessing the Evidence
Report release with author Harry Holzer, Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute; Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President; Darrell M. West, Vice President and Director of Governance Studies, and Founding Director, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution; Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of MPI’s US Immigration Policy Program; and Michael Fix, MPI Senior Vice President and Director of Studies.
January 13, 2011
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US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin Discusses His Vision for CBP
Commissioner Bersin details his agenda for his agency and discusses illegal immigration, border enforcement, the impact to the economy on migration flows, the future of the Secure Border Initiative, drug trafficking, and other topics in this wide-ranging conversation with MPI Senior Fellow Doris Meissner and the audience.
October 14, 2010
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The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from the US-Mexico Borderlands
Book discussion with Tyche Hendricks, journalist and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism; Andrew Selee, Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute; and Doris Meissner, MPI Senior Fellow and Director of MPI’s US Immigration Policy Program
September 29, 2010
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Still an Hourglass?: Immigrant Workers in Middle-Skilled Jobs
Report release with Eduardo Martín Ochoa, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, US Department of Education; Anthony P. Carnevale, Director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce; report co-author Michael Fix, MPI Senior Vice President and Director of Studies; Margie McHugh, Co-Director of MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy; and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
September 20, 2010
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Breakfast briefing with Kate Brick, MPI Associate Policy Analyst; Robert Carey, Vice President of Resettlement and Migration Policy, International Rescue Committee; and Kathleen Newland, MPI Director of Refugee Policy and Migrants, Migration, and Development Programs.
July 16, 2010
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The conference, co-sponsored by Georgetown Law, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., and the Migration Policy Institute, focused immigration and refugee law and policy. Panels included: Current Topics in Immigration Law and Policy; Reforming the U.S. Immigration Court System; Humanitarian Relief, Access to Protection, and U.S. Asylum Policies; and Enforcement of Immigration Law. Eric P. Schwartz, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State spoke on US policy on international migration.
June 24, 2010
Georgetown University Law Center
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Discussion with Deborah Berkowitz, Chief of Staff, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, US Department of Labor; John Howard, Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; Marc Schenker, Director, Migration and Health Research Center, University of California, Davis; Bruce Goldstein, Executive Director, Farmworker Justice; and Xochitl Castañeda, Director, Health Initiative of the Americas, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. Moderated by Michael Fix, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies.
June 14, 2010
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Breakfast briefing with T. Alexander Aleinikoff, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees; Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President; and Kathleen Newland, MPI Director of the Migrants, Migration, and Development, and Refugee Policy Programs.
June 9, 2010
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Briefing and discussion of the release of the latest paper by MPI's Labor Markets Initiative: The Impact of Immigrants in Recession and Economic Expansion. Speakers are report author Giovanni Peri, UC Davis Professor of Economics; Ross Eisenbrey, Vice President, Economic Policy Institute; and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
June 7, 2010
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A discussion on possible reforms to the immigration adjudication system and the recent report on the topic by the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration. The event was moderated by MPI Vice President for Programs Donald Kerwin, and the panelists were: Robert A. Katzmann, US Circuit Judge, US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; Karen T. Grisez, Chair, ABA Commission on Immigration; and Lawrence A. Schneider, Senior Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP, who led the ABA report research team.
May 25, 2010
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2010 E Pluribus Unum Prizes: Honoring Exceptional Immigrant Integration Initiatives
Winners of the 2nd annual E Pluribus Unum Prizes awarded to exceptional immigrant integration initiatives by MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy are the Illinois New Americans Integration Initiative; the Latino Community Credit Union in Durham, NC; Tacoma Community House in Tacoma, WA; and Upwardly Global in San Francisco, CA. McDonald's Corp. of Oak Brook, IL, received the sole honorable mention. The Prizes seek to reward exemplary efforts that uphold and update the ideal of "out of many, one" and inspire others to take on the important work of helping immigrants and their children join the mainstream of US society as well as build stronger ties between immigrants and the native-born.
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Book release with Susan Ginsburg, MPI Nonresident Fellow and former Senior Counsel, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (9/11 Commission); Michael German, Policy Counsel on National Security, Immigration and Privacy, American Civil Liberties Union Washington Legislative Office; Luis Rubio, President, CIDAC (Center of Research for Development) and instructor at Mexico's intelligence agency school; and Donald M. Kerwin, Jr., MPI Vice President for Programs.
April 22, 2010
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The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, the Center for Applied Linguistics, and the Migration Policy Institute hosted a discussion on the effects of English-only policies on English language learners, with book author Patricia Gándara, Megan Hopkins, UCLA; Diane August, Center for Applied Linguistics; Daniel Losen, UCLA Civil Rights Project; Roberto J. Rodríguez, The White House Domestic Policy Council; and Michael Fix, MPI.
April 14, 2010
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Public Policy Institute of California researchers Magnus Lofstrom and Laura Hill discuss their research examining the potential labor market outcomes and other possible economic effects of a legalization program. The discussion was moderated by Doris Meissner, MPI Senior Fellow and Director of the US Immigration Policy Program, with comments from MPI Senior Policy Analyst Randy Capps and Sherrie A. Kossoudji, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan.
April 12, 2010
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US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas details his agenda for his agency, and discusses E-Verify, fees, the transformation initiative, processing of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, and other top priorities for USCIS.
March 22, 2010
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The 30th Anniversary of the 1980 Refugee Act: What the Refugee Program's History Suggests for a Better Future
Briefing with Representative James McGovern, Third Congressional District of Massachusetts, Representative Anh "Joseph" Cao, Second Congressional District of Louisiana; António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); Kathleen Newland, Director, Refugee Policy Program, Migration Policy Institute; Kay Bellor, Vice President, US Programs, International Rescue Committee; and Tara Magner, Senior Counsel, Office of Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman, US Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
March 15, 2010
US Capitol Building, Room HC-6, Washington, DC
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A discussion and report release with Ambassador Carlos García de Alba, Executive Director, Institute for Mexicans Abroad; and MPI's Laureen Laglagaron, Kathleen Newland, Aaron Terrazas, and Michael Fix.
January 28, 2010
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Launch of the MPI Speakers Series - Leadership Visions - Moderated by Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director, US Immigration Policy Program, MPI
January 25, 2010
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Paper release with Gordon Hanson, University of California,
San Diego Economics Professor; Jeanne Butterfield, National
Immigration Forum Senior Advisor; Marc Rosenblum, MPI Senior
Policy Analyst; and Michael Fix, MPI Senior Vice President and
Director of Studies.
December 2, 2009
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Book release and discussion with Demetrios G.
Papademetriou, MPI President; Michael S. Teitelbaum,
Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Carl Haub,
Senior Demographer and Conrad Taeuber Chair of Public
Information, Population Reference Bureau; and Joseph J.
Minarik, Senior Vice President and Director of Research,
Committee for Economic Development.
October 28, 2009
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Discussion with book author Dr. Kamal Sadiq, Assistant Professor
of Political Science at the University of California at Irvine,
and Susan Ginsburg, MPI Director of the Mobility and
Security Program.
October 1, 2009
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Report release with Donald Kerwin, MPI Vice President for Programs; Serena Lin, MPI Data/Statistical Analyst; Dora Schriro, Director, ICE Office of Detention Policy and
Planning; and Andrea Black, Detention Watch Network Coordinator.
September 10, 2009
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A Webinar with report co-author Marc R. Rosenblum, Senior Policy Analyst, MPI.
July 30, 2009
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Report release with Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of the US Immigration Policy Program, MPI; Madeleine Sumption, Associate Policy Analyst, MPI; Marc
Rosenblum, Senior Policy Analyst, MPI; Jeanne Butterfield, Senior Advisor, National Immigration Forum; and Tamar Jacoby, President, ImmigrationWorks USA
July 24, 2009
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Report release with Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of the US Immigration Policy Program, MPI; and Marc Rosenblum, Senior Policy Analyst, MPI
July 20, 2009
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This conference offered law and policy analysis and discussion on cutting-edge immigration issues. Panel discussion topics included Bringing Immigration
Policymaking into the 21st Century, Prospects for Immigration Reform: What to Expect from Washington?, and Communities Laying the Groundwork for Immigration
Reform and Beyond. Speakers included: Senate Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Charles Schumer and Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement
John Morton. Co-sponsored by MPI, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., and Georgetown University Law Center.
June 24, 2009
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Briefing with George Rupp, President, International Rescue Committee (IRC); Robert Carey, Vice President for Resettlement and Migration Policy, IRC; Robin Dunn-Marcos, Director of the IRC Phoenix office; and Alaa Naji, Iraqi refugee resettled by IRC. Moderated by Kathleen Newland, Director of the Migrants, Migration, and Development, and Refugee Policy Programs, MPI; Member of the Board of Overseers of the IRC; and member of the IRC Commission. Co-sponsored by the International Rescue Committee.
June 16, 2009
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Briefing by Wayne A. Cornelius, Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC-San Diego; and Center research team; with Doris
Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of the US Immigration Policy Program, MPI.
June 8, 2009
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Discussion on citizenship with leading citizenship experts and key policymakers, including top government officials from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
May 15, 2009
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Briefing and policy paper release with Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of the US Immigration Policy Program, MPI; Demetrios G. Papademetriou, President, MPI;
Tamar Jacoby, President of ImmigrationWorks USA; and Frank Sharry, Founder and Executive Director of America's Voice.
May 13, 2009
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Breakfast briefing with Eleanor Acer, Director of the Refugee Protection Program, Human Rights
First; Michael Cromartie, Vice Chair, US Commission on International Religious Freedom;
James Ziglar, Sr., former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; and Kathleen Newland, Director of the Migrants,
Migration, and Development, and Refugee Policy Program, MPI.
April 30, 2009
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Breakfast briefing and report release with Doris Meissner,
Senior Fellow and Director of US Immigration Policy Program, MPI, and Donald Kerwin, Vice President of Programs, MPI.
February 11, 2009
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Briefing and report release with Demetrios Papademetriou, MPI President; Michael Fix, Senior Vice President, MPI; Margie McHugh, Co-Director, MPI National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy; and Dilip Ratha, Senior Economist, World Bank.
January 14, 2009
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Report release with Jeanne Batalova, MPI Policy Analyst and Data Manager; Michael Fix, MPI Senior Vice President and Director of Studies; Jane Leu, Upwardly Global Executive Director and Founder; and Thomas E. Perez, Maryland Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation.
October 22, 2008
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Data seminar with Elizabeth Grieco, Chief, Immigration Statistics, US Census Bureau; Mark Mather, Associate Vice President, Domestic Programs, Population Reference Bureau; Jeffrey Passel, Senior Research Associate, Pew Hispanic Center; Audrey Singer, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; and moderated by Jeanne Batalova, MPI Policy Analyst and Data Manager.
October 16, 2008
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Book discussion with Marie Price and Lisa Benton-Short, book editors and Associate Professors at George Washington University, and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
July 15, 2008
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Book discussion with Philip Kasinitz, Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; John H. Mollenkopf, Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Urban Research, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Demetrios Papademetriou, President, MPI; and Tamar Jacoby, President, ImmigrationWorks USA.
June 24, 2008
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This conference offered law and policy analysis and discussion on cutting-edge immigration issues. Co-sponsored by MPI, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC),
and Georgetown University Law Center.
May 20, 2008
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Book discussion with Jorge G. Castañeda, Mexico's Foreign Minister from 2000-2003 and author of Ex-Mex; Peter Hakim, Inter-American Dialogue; and Doris Meissner, MPI.
May 15, 2008
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Breakfast briefing and book discussion with Dr. Philip Bobbitt, book author; John Brennan, former Director of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center; and Susan Ginsburg, MPI Mobility and Security Program Director.
April 28, 2008
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Report release of Los Angeles on the Leading Edge: Immigrant Indicators and Their Policy Implications. Mayor Villaraigosa discusses his city's experience, and report authors Margie McHugh and Michael Fix provide an overview of their findings.
April 16, 2008
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The Second Annual Matthew J. Ryan Forum on Law and Public Policy
Organized by Villanova University School of Law, and co-sponsored by MPI, Catholic Relief Services, Holland + Knight LLP, and Proskauer Rose LLP.
April 4, 2008
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Roundtable discussion with Irasema Garza, Working America, AFL-CIO; Bruce Goldstein, Farmworker Justice; Rick Nahmias, The Migrant Project; and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President. Followed by presentation of the photo exhibit and a reception.
Co-sponsored by MPI, Mexico Cultural Institute, Embassy of Mexico, Farmworker Justice, and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
March 31, 2008
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Brownbag Luncheon with Omar C. Jadwat, American Civil Liberties Union, Immigrants' Rights Project; Laureen D. Laglagaron, MPI; and Cristina Rodríguez, New York University School of Law. Co-sponsored by the Migration Policy Institute, DC Bar Association, and DC Chapter American Immigration Lawyers Association.
March 14, 2008
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Briefing with Peter J. Spiro, Charles Weiner Professor of Law at Temple University; Donald Kerwin, Executive Director of Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.; and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
March 5, 2008
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Breakfast briefing with Georges Lemaitre, International Migration Specialist, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labor and Social Affairs and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
February 7, 2008
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Briefing with Lord Peter Goldsmith QC, the former Attorney General of Britain; T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Executive Vice President of Law Center Affairs and Dean of the Law Center, Georgetown University;
Alfonso Aguilar, Chief of the Office of Citizenship, US Citizenship and Immigration Services; Matthew Spalding, Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies, The Heritage Foundation; and Demetrios Papademetriou, MPI President.
February 4, 2008
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Briefing and paper release with Muzaffar Chishti, Director, MPI's office at New York University School of Law; Laureen Laglagaron, Policy Analyst, MPI; Cristina Rodríguez, Associate Professor, New York University School of Law; and moderated by Michael Fix, Co-Director, MPI National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy.
December 13, 2007
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Briefing with Congressmen Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), the authors of the STRIVE Act (Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy).
Co-sponsored by MPI and the Brookings Institution.
April 26, 2007
Watch Introduction | Remarks by Congressman Jeff Flake (R-AZ) | Remarks by Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) | Read the Transcript
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Keynote by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law, US House of Representatives. Co-sponsored by MPI, Georgetown University Law Center, and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC).
April 24, 2007
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Debate between Kris W. Kobach, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston Law Center.
April 6, 2007
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Briefing with Chung-Wha Hong, New York Immigration Coalition; Nick Johnson, Commission for Racial Equality; Charles Kamasaki, National Council of La Raza; and Demetrios Papademetriou, MPI President.
March 30, 2007
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MPI's Five-Year Anniversary Event.
March 21, 2007
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Briefing with Eleanor Acer, Human Rights First; George Clark, Save the Montagnard People Inc.; and Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia, Senior Consultant, Lutheran World Relief, and former Governor of Choco, Colombia; and Doua Thor, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center.
March 9, 2007
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Breakfast briefing with Michael Fix and Margie McHugh, Center Co-Directors; Jeanne Batalova, Data Manager, MPI Data Hub; Don Kerwin, Executive Director, CLINIC; Leighton Ku, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Delia Pompa, Vice President of Education, National Council of La Raza; and Ruby Takanishi, President, Foundation for Child Development.
February 6, 2007
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