A selection of recent articles and reports MeBIC found of interest that you may have missed.
- Pew Research Center: Education Levels of Latino Immigrants in the U.S. Reached New Highs as of 2018, April 7, 2020
About a quarter (26%) of recently arrived Latino immigrants ages 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree or more education in 2018, up from just 10% in 1990. They are among a rapidly growing share of recently arrived Hispanic immigrants who have completed high school – 67% in 2018, up from 38% in 1990. These increases have helped raise the education levels of all Latino immigrants and shifted the group toward high-skill occupations and away from low-skill ones.
- Cato Institute: 12 New Immigration Ideas for the 21st Century, May 13, 2020
Policy analysts, economists, political scientists, journalists, and advocates from around the world offer new policy suggestions that future Congresses could use to liberalize the legal immigration system.
- Brookings: Less Gratitude Please: How Covid-19 Reveals the Need for Migration Reform, May 22, 2020
(K)ey, essential workers have been celebrated as heroes during the pandemic, with weekly clappings and accolades from the highest levels of power: Upon leaving hospital after his personal encounter with the virus, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised the two migrant nurses who cared for him—Jenny from New Zealand and Luis from Portugal.
So what would it take to turn gratitude into policy and practice change?
- Dallas Morning News: On the Front Lines: Latinos Fight the Coronavirus, Poverty, and Vulnerability as Contagion Rages through Texas, May 28, 2020
Latinos are on the coronavirus front lines, providing for people as workers in food factories to the trucking industry to cleaning businesses. They are also at the front of the line to catch the virus because of where they work, lower incomes and health care problems…… Latinos have been losing their jobs at a higher rate than any other demographic group in the nation, with nearly a fifth now unemployed…… Many Latinos who still have jobs face a vicious trade-off: Is the paycheck worth sacrificing their health at a crowded workplace?
- The Texas Tribune and Pro Publica: The Trump Administration is Rushing Deportations of Migrant Children During the Coronavirus, May 18, 2020
While the deportation of children to dangerous situations is not a new phenomenon for U.S. authorities, what has shocked even veteran immigration attorneys is that the government is trying to so quickly remove, arguably against federal law, those most imperiled — all during a global pandemic.