Originally aired Thursday, Jan. 24, 2024.
Over the past several months, we have witnessed the arrival of unprecedented numbers of migrants and asylum seekers at the southwest border of the United States. Many have continued their journey to major US cities across the country, including New York City. As the number of migrants and asylum seekers continues to rise, border politics in Congress have become entangled with controversies over continued military aid to Ukraine and Israel. This expert panel will provide insight into what is happening at the border, examine the issues being debated in Congress, and provide insight into the implications for Biden administration policy
Speakers
Alexandra Délano Alonso
Professor of Global Studies
The New School
Alexandra Délano Alonso’s work explores the connections between academia, policy and activism, identifying spaces where bottom-up and top-down interactions across different levels and actors produce transformative practices, policies, and spaces to address the inequalities underlying the causes of the forced displacement and the exclusion of migrants with precarious status.
Miriam Jordan
National Correspondent
The New York Times
Miriam Jordan is a national correspondent covering immigration. Her reporting pulls back the curtain on the complexities and paradoxes of immigration policies and their impact on the lives of immigrants, U.S. society, demographics and the economy.
Doris Meissner
Senior Fellow and Director, U.S. Immigration Policy Program
Migration Policy Institute
Doris Meissner, former Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is a Senior Fellow at MPI, where she directs the Institute’s U.S. immigration policy work.
Moderator
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Deam, The New School for Social Research
Director, Zolberg Center on Migration and Mobility, The New School
Alex Aleinikoff has written widely in the areas of immigration and refugee law and policy, transnational law, citizenship, race, and constitutional law. His latest book, New Narratives on the Peopling of America (co-edited with Alexandra Delano), will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2024. He is also the author of The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime (Stanford University Press, 2019, co-authored by Leah Zamore) and Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship ( Harvard University Press, 2002). He is a co-author of leading legal casebooks on immigration law and forced migration. He is currently working on several projects relating to climate migration and reform of the international protection regime. Before coming to The New School, Alex was United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees from 2010-2015.