“Given that these doctorates often possess highly specialized skills and training at the leading edge of research in areas like vaccines, artificial intelligence, robotics and space,” Michael Roach said, “blanket visa restrictions could significantly impact U.S. firms’ ability to hire and retain the best and brightest scientists.”

Ian Kysel co-writes an article about the U.S. immigration system, calling for fixes to long-standing legal problems.

Migrations postdoc Eleanor Paynter works with Italian journalist Annalisa Camilli to produce a timeline that illustrates how, since 2013, Europe has gone from prioritizing rescue to focusing on exclusionary policies. It also highlights the high rate of death at sea for migrants attempting to cross the Central Mediterranean route from North Africa to Southern Europe, and it shows how Europe has criminalized rescue practices.

In this op-ed, Klarman postdoctoral fellow and sociologist Chiarra Galli writes that the Biden administration must hire more asylum officers, end systematic detaining of asylum seekers, provide legal representation at no cost to asylum-seekers, and expand a law allowing victims of domestic violence to qualify for asylum.

“The rule would have been the death knell for many asylum seekers,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law. “The court’s decision today leaves the door open for people fleeing persecution.”

Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law practice, Cornell Law School, said, “Barring temporary foreign workers from entering the country was a mistake in June. It remains a mistake today.”

Rachel Beatty Riedl appears as a guest on Speaking of Language, the podcast of the Cornell Language Resource Center.

“It will gut the U.S. asylum system,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law. “Effectively, very few people will be able to win asylum.”

Gunisha Kaur, assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medicine Anesthesiology and co-medical director of the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights, co-writes this opinion piece about protests by Indian farmers.

Two Cornell researchers are part of a multi-institution team arguing that the solution is the safe release of detainees into their communities.