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McCormick talks to Associated Press, Bloomberg about the US-Mexico border crisis

A U.S. delegation discussed immigration and regional development in a series of meetings in Mexico on Tuesday at a time when the rising number of migrants arriving at their shared border has raised concerns in both countries.
March 24, 2021

See related: Latin America & the Caribbean, Refugees, United States

McCormick discusses US-Mexico immigration in Al Jazeera article

Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations, says Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is likely to request more U.S. funding than under previous arrangements with Trump to respond to the situation.
March 15, 2021

See related: Latin America & the Caribbean, U.S. Immigration, United States

Abdelaaty study on human rights, refugee protection published in IJHR

Lamis Abdelaaty
February 12, 2021

See related: Human Rights, Refugees

Lamis Abdelaaty examines disparities in refugee treatment

Lamis Abdelaaty
December 26, 2020

See related: Refugees

White quoted in Los Angeles Times article on mistruths surrounding Trump's health

October 5, 2020

See related: COVID-19, Federal, U.S. Immigration, United States

Abdelaaty examines attitudes towards refugees in Europe in new study

Lamis Abdelaaty & Liza G. Steele
September 17, 2020

See related: Refugees

Ma comments on order to stop visas for skilled immigrants in Politico

Yingyi Ma, associate professor of sociology, assesses that Trump's executive order suspending the entry of foreign workers seeking H1-B visas "seriously undermines American leadership in fields such as technology and medicine where skilled immigrants serve as the backbone."

June 25, 2020

See related: Federal, U.S. Immigration, United States

Farag book proposes improvements in immigration policy

George Farag ’02 MA (PA)/’02 MAIR/’07 PhD (Anth) has written Pro-American Immigration, recently published by Lioncrest. The book explores gaps in current U.S. immigration policy, and then proposes practical solutions to address these problems.
April 7, 2020

See related: U.S. Immigration, United States

Elizabeth Cohen discusses new book on Blog Talk Radio

Elizabeth Cohen, professor of political science, provides the full scope of the immigration bias against individuals belonging to marginalized groups, starting in the days just after 9/11, and examines how the panic of the time gave way to the creation of a complex and unmonitored infrastructure that the Trump administration has unleashed without recourse.

February 17, 2020

See related: Federal, U.S. Immigration, United States

Elizabeth Cohen cited in NY Mag article on ICE, McKinsey & Company

Illegal: How America's Lawless Immigration Regime Threatens Us All, a book by Elizabeth F. Cohen, professor of political science, was cited in a New York Times and ProPublica report on McKinsey and Company's ties to President Trump's immigration policies.

December 9, 2019

See related: Federal, U.S. Immigration, United States

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