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 Director Giovanni Peri, along with coauthors, estimate the transition rate of international students to the U.S. labor market in a new paper published in the Journal of Public Economics. They find transition rates of 0.23 (0.08) for foreign master’s (bachelor’s) graduates.
GMC Director Giovanni Peri and GMC Grad Student Affiliate Reem Zaiour were featured on Econofact regarding the increase of Central American adult migrants to the United States, which corresponds to the increase in immigrant minors and the overall migration of families. In general, the majority of Central American minor migrants moved to the United States with their parents or were reunited with them in the past nine years.
GMC Deputy Director Robert McKee Irwin has obtained a “Mobilities to Mexico” seed grant from Alianza UCMX to send five graduate students from his Humanizando la Deportación team to carry out field research this summer in Tijuana, where they will work with colleagues from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, focusing principally on documenting the experiences of asylum seekers.
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.”
GMC Affiliate Brad Jones was interviewed on Sacramento’s ABC10 on May 9th, 2023. This interview was in regards to the news of Title 42 ending. At the 0:50 mark, Jones explains that, “We’re going to see an unprecedented surge at the border… The images that we’re going to see are going to be, to many Americans, looking very scary—when in fact, we’re dealing with this pressure cooker, this backlog, of asylum seekers.”
GMC deputy director Robert McKee Irwin was interviewed on Sacramento ABC10 news on Monday,
May 8, regarding the implications of the impending May 11 expiration of the Title 42 border closure.
GMC Director Giovanni Peri and GMC Grad Student Affiliate Reem Zaiour’s for Forbes. This feature includes their findings regarding reduced immigration during COVID-19 and the Trump administration. They restated, “due to the pandemic and U.S. immigration policies under the Trump administration, there were 2 million fewer working-age immigrants.”
GMC affiliate, Paola Langer won the 2023 Population Association of America Poster Award for her work, State-Level Spending and Black–White Mortality Gaps.
