GMC Director Giovanni Peri, Affiliates Chad Sparber and Kevin Shih and co-authors were published in an article in the ILR review. This article discusses how firms are dealing with shortages of H1B and what those consequences look like.
GMC Affiliate Brad Jones was interviewed on KYMA in Yuma, Arizona about migrant and asylum seeker crossings on the Arizona border. Jones says that “Asylum seekers actually want to be detained. They want to be apprehended because that’s what gets the asylum-seeking process started”.
GMC Affiliate Brad Jones was interviewed on Cronkite News. In this interview, the conversation was in regard to migrant deaths that were high in July, but in totality remained low.
GMC Director Giovanni Peri was interviewed for The Latin Times. Here he talks about the vacancies that are seen in sectors where migrants usually work and with the decline in migration, there are a lot of yet to be filled jobs for US born workers.
GMC Deputy Director Robert McKee Irwin was interviewed by Aline Barros for the article, Biden Administration Relies on Deterrence to Manage Immigration at US-Mexico Border, published on Friday, June 9th, on the Voice of America website.
GMC Affiliate Brad Jones was interviewed on KOLD news in Tucson, Arizona about the ending of Title 42. He added, “The ones here in Tucson and the ones up in Phoenix are going to get hit hard. They’re going to need volunteers, they’re going to need volunteers who can speak Spanish, but even more than that what we will see is an increase in traffic in asylum seekers all around the world.”
GMC Deputy Director Robert McKee Irwin has published “Immigration Policies Don’t Deter Migrants from Coming to the US - Title 42 and the Border Rules Replacing It Only Make the Process Longer and More Difficult,” his take on the expiration of the Title 42 border closure and the asylum policies that are being implemented to replace it, in The Conversation.
GMC Affiliate Brad Jones on May 10th was interviewed in the Albuquerque Journal. This interview is about the ending of Title 42. Jones explained, “I think all points on the border are going to be really overwhelmed with the asylum seekers who are fleeing really desperate situations. I do think New Mexico will be highly impacted,” and “The fact that El Paso is really stressed beyond capacity, I think it’s a very reasonable expectation that migrants will attempt crossing at the border in New Mexico.”
