Vice provost of international affairs Wendy Wolford writes: "We need innovation and growth, but isolation and fear won’t get us there: a global research community will." She shares four ways that Congress can support responsible international collaboration.

Out now from the International Migrants Bill of Rights (IMBR) Initiative: "An Urgent Imperative: Pathways for Admission and Stay to Promote Family Unity." This work from IMBR and Ian Kysel was supported by a 2020 Migrations grant.

“Given our efforts to jump start the economy after the pandemic, it is particularly unfortunate that the Senate failed to extend the program,” says Steve Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law and Migrations faculty fellow.

Episode 5 of Migrations: A World on the Move takes a look at dispossession, both in our local area of upstate New York and on the U.S.-Mexico border. Listen now to episode 5 and our complete first season.

Pedro X. Molina, an incoming visiting scholar with Cornell's Latin American Studies Program, fights for fair elections in Nicaragua with his political cartoons. 

“You have to understand that these Indigenous people see the entire region, both the part of Mexico and the United States, as their territory. In their traditions, it is remembered that they received a lot of water and, little by little, they were running out of that flow,” says Osvel Hinojosa-Huerta, director of the Coastal Solutions Program at the Lab of Ornithology.

“It’s hard for a community to stand on edge for that long,” says Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, professor of law.

“While states can do certain things under state law regarding immigration, erecting barriers along the border or arresting migrants is beyond the pale in my view,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law. 

Andrew Farnsworth, senior research associate that the Lab of Ornithology, discusses how radar picks up insects and birds and whether cicadas are flying under the radar coverage.

“The Court noted that Congress could fix the problem through legislation,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr professor of immigration law. “Indeed, such a bill is pending in Congress. The decision highlights the need for Congress to enact immigration legislation to fix our broken immigration system.”