Recent uncertainties regarding the legal status of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program underscore the urgency for policymakers to reassess long-standing restrictions on government-sponsored healthcare subsidies for all immigrants, according to a new analysis by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Law School, and Harvard Medical School.

Angel Alfonso Escamilla García, our Migrations postdoctoral fellow, writes about his work on people migrating from the U.S. to Mexico. His research has shown that migrants pay close attention to any information that can give them clues about the dangers that lie between them and the U.S.

“Any executive action that a president might try to end birthright citizenship would be challenged in court and would be likely struck down as unconstitutional,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law.

Mary Jo Dudley, director of the CALS farmworker program, discusses concerns about training this workforce.

“These orders are going to be discriminatory in impact and on their face, meaning in their text, because in the order they explicitly singled out migrants and asylum seekers,” says Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, professor of law.

Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of law, says, “They were caught at the border, either at a port of entry or between a port of entry. So perhaps ‘caught attempting to cross the border’ would be more accurate.”

“I would co-sign Governor Hochul’s letter to the Federal Immigration Agency urging them to decide these work permit applications, and I would also urge New York State to appropriate more money to help counties on immigration generally,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of law.

May is Mental Health Awareness month and to kick it off U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an 81-page report that says the US is in the midst of a loneliness epidemic. But how prevalent is loneliness in a dense urban environment like New York City, where we often interact with dozens of people a day just going about our business?

In March 2020, the Trump administration invoked its authority under Title 42 of the U.S. Code, a public health law, to close the southwest border to virtually anyone crossing in from Mexico. Since then, border officials deported or denied entry to would-be migrants more than 3 million times.

“I think the earliest that we may get a final decision by the Supreme Court would be June of 2024, and even that may be premature,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law.