Unaccompanied Child Migrants in the United States: How Are They Faring?
Marking the release of a MPI brief, this webinar will examine data on where unaccompanied child migrants are being placed in the United States, how they are faring in immigration courts, what services...
View ArticleLeadership Visions: A Discussion with Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia...
An MPI Leadership Visions discussion with the Foreign Minister of Mexico, Claudia Ruiz-Massieu, for her first public appearance in Washington, DC.
View ArticleReception and Reintegration Services in Central America: Ending the Deportee...
A webinar releasing a report examining deportations to Central America and reception and reintegration services in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
View ArticleLeadership Visions: A Discussion with Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia...
An MPI Leadership Visions discussion with the Foreign Minister of Mexico, Claudia Ruiz-Massieu, for her first public appearance in Washington, DC.
View ArticleTrends in Unaccompanied Child and Family Migration from Central America
This fact sheet uses U.S. and Mexican apprehensions data to trace the evolving trends in unaccompanied child and family migration from Central America through Mexico and to the United States, and...
View ArticleIncreased Central American Migration to the United States May Prove an...
The complex push and pull factors driving child and family migration from Central America to the United States have changed little since the 2014 crisis. Despite some fluctuation in arrival numbers,...
View ArticleMexican Immigrants in the United States
Mexican immigration to the United States has slowed in recent years, and since the Great Recession more Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico than have migrated to the United States. Mexicans,...
View ArticleFarm to Table: The Role of Immigrants in U.S. Farm Labor in 2016
A discussion featuring data on immigration trends and farm labor that could help inform future reform debates, including what adjustments farm employers are making, including increased mechanization,...
View ArticleThe Impact of Mexican Maternal Migration on Children’s Future Ambitions
While Mexican women account for a significant share of migration flows to the United States, there has been little focus on their movement and effects on children in Mexico. This article, based on...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2016 – Issue #7: Migrants and Smugglers Get Creative to Circumvent...
Smugglers and migrants adapted their paths in light of changing conditions in 2016, including the construction of walls and closure of borders. Cuban and Haitian migrants increasingly chose to make...
View ArticleThe Evolving and Diversifying Nature of Migration to the U.S.-Mexico Border
Two significant migration shifts at the U.S.-Mexico border have been obscured by talk of walls and further border security: Mexicans no longer represent the top unauthorized crossers, replaced by...
View ArticleFrequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United...
In 2015, 43.3 million immigrants lived in the United States, comprising 13.5 percent of the population. The foreign-born population grew more slowly than in prior years, up 2 percent from 2014. Get...
View ArticleRecognizing Changing Enforcement and Crossing Trends at the U.S.-Mexico Border
As the Trump administration makes significant changes to border policy and Congress considers potential funding for a border wall, this discussion will focus on the recent and current state of the...
View ArticleA Revolving Door No More? A Statistical Profile of Mexican Adults Repatriated...
The revolving door of return migration is slowing significantly for Mexican adults deported or voluntarily returned by the U.S. government, with the number intending to attempt re-entry dropping 80...
View ArticleRecognizing Changing Enforcement and Crossing Trends at the U.S.-Mexico Border
In the midst of efforts to further ramp up enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border even as illegal crossings are a fraction of what they were at their peak in 2000, MPI research sketches the changing...
View ArticleStrengthening Mexico’s Protection of Central American Unaccompanied Minors in...
Mexico has apprehended more than 50,000 unaccompanied children since 2014 and introduced ambitious reforms to safeguard their rights. Yet the gap between policy and reality is wide: Most are held in...
View ArticleLa Situación de Cambio Constante entre EE UU y México: Tendencias y Políticas...
Una llamada en español que analiza las dinámicas cambiantes y las cuestiones políticas relacionadas con la migración a través de México a los Estados Unidos.
View ArticleLa Situación de Cambio Constante entre EE UU y México: Tendencias y Políticas...
Durante este seminario, ponentes presentaron hallazgos de un reciente informe que utiliza datos de agencias gubernamentales mexicanas, entrevistas con funcionarios clave y relatos de la sociedad civil...
View ArticleTrump’s First Year on Immigration Policy: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Looking back after one year in office, it is striking how just closely the Trump administration’s actions on immigration have hewed to priorities Donald Trump outlined in an uncommonly detailed policy...
View ArticleFrequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United...
The United States is by far the world's top migration destination, home to roughly one-fifth of all global migrants. In 2016, nearly 44 million immigrants lived in the United States, comprising 13.5...
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