Hosted by Global Cornell, the Global Grand Challenges Symposium brought together more than 300 faculty, staff and students from Cornell and the new Cornell Global Hubs to discuss ideas for the next universitywide Global Grand Challenge.

Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas were using people as political billboards by sending people released by border agents to cities across the US. Just weeks later, the Biden administration would soon send its own border message by making a deal to turn many Venezuelan asylum seekers back to Mexico.

When Asrar boarded a plane with more than 400 other Afghans fleeing Kabul for America last year, the longtime intelligence officer said he felt something he hadn’t in a long time: safe.

While the U.S. Border Patrol has reported 98 encounters with people on the U.S. government’s terrorist watchlist along the southwest border, those individuals were stopped by border agents, and did not escape into the U.S.

A California burger chain in Texas may be one indicator of the increased migration of Californians to the southern state with diametrically opposite politics.

More than 21,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York City, creating a log jam in the nation's biggest sanctuary city.

How will climate change impact whether people decide to stay or leave New York state? That’s one of the questions being considered by the New York Sea Grant. The collegiate research program recently compiled a fact sheet to help drive the conversation about the Great Lakes and climate-induced human migration.

Every fall, the U.S. president sets a refugee ceiling — the maximum number of refugees that may be resettled annually to the United States. For the new fiscal year that started Oct. 1, President Biden plans to resettle up to 125,000 refugees. Because of dramatic cuts to the refugee program during the prior administration, that goal will be hard to meet. A year ago, Biden set the same target, but more than 100,000 refugee slots went unused.

Florida officials began planning to transport migrants to other states in July and told potential contractors their task would be to relocate them on a voluntary basis, according to state documents.

On Oct. 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled in Texas v. United States, the case challenging the DACA program. DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, turned 10 this summer — and it is more at risk than ever. 

Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, associate clinical professor of law at Cornell, writes this analysis about how the recent ruling on DACA impacts the future of the program.