TheImmigrationLab

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Remittances Do Not Drain Host Countries’ Economies and Are Not Like Foreign Aid In this chapter, we provide evidence to disprove the myth that remittances drain and burden host countries’ economies. We begin by outlining common arguments against remittances, particularly those in...

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The Trump administration does not understand remittances at all, and neither does the far-right in countries like Guatemala. As someone who sends remittances home to my wife, I can attest that most of my money goes to costs here in the U.S. and it goes to helping my partner as we wait for her visa*

📣 Happening next Wednesday
We are pleased to invite Bernadette Ludwig for a talk on her book "Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America," a study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten Island, New York, that sheds light on the racism they have experienced on their migration journey.

Halftime performance showed how most Latinos love America, even if some parts of America do not love them back.

It showed the reality that Latinos and Spanish are part of America's culture, its history, present & future.
As references to salsa show, this is not a new phenomenon but a good reminder.

Profs & Pints DC: Venezuela’s Future—and Ours Profs and Pints DC presents: “Venezuela’s Future—and Ours,” an analysis of how the Trump administration’s intervention in Venezuela will affect that nation, the U.S., and the rest of the world, with E...

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Listen to "ICE brazo armado del ejecutivo" by The Immigration Lab via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/ice-...

Many people believe immigrants are to blame for the poor job market, but how true is that?
This is Immigration Nuance in 60 seconds, and today we’ll look at just that

"Many worry about the deportation of their parents or other family members, some of whom they had been reconnected with for the first time in many, many years. The last thing that we should be doing as a country is targeting and tearing apart families."
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The second reason we committed to regularization is purely pragmatic. The West needs people. Currently, few of its countries have a rising population growth rate. Unless they embrace migration, they will experience a sharp demographic decline that will prevent them from keeping their economies and public services afloat. Their gross domestic products will stagnate. Their public health care and pension systems will suffer. Neither A.I. nor robots will be able to prevent this outcome, at least not in the short or medium term. The only option to avoid decline is to integrate migrants in the most orderly and effective way possible.

"A reason we committed to regularization is purely pragmatic. The West needs people. Few countries have a rising population growth rate. Unless they embrace migration, they'll experience a sharp demographic decline that will prevent them from keeping their economies & public services afloat"

Immigration Myths Die Hard One Year into Trump 2.0, Some Immigration Myths are Shattering, but Some of the Big Lies from the 2024 Trump Campaign Continue

-Current immigration laws create family separations.
-A closed border, along with no asylum, and less legal immigration is not something to celebrate.

You can read more here:
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Multiple factual misunderstandings persist in the way that immigration is often framed and discussed in media coverage and political commentary. Here some recurring new and old myths.

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Profs & Pints DC: Venezuela’s Future—and Ours | Penn Social An analysis of how the Trump administration’s intervention in Venezuela will affect that nation, the U.S., and the rest of the world, with Ernesto Castañeda, Director of the Center for Latin American ...

Maduro was taken by force by U.S. forces a month ago (January 3, 2026).

On Monday, February 9, I will discuss the causes and consequences at a @profsandpints.bsky.social event in downtown DC.

Join a great, curious, and engaged crowd always open to learn.

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The people and the media achieved the release of LIAM CONEJO RAMOS and his dad!
Unfortunately there are still many minors, families, and people who were in the U.S. with permission in indefinite DETENTION in terrible conditions.
From Jan to Oct 2025, at least 3,800 children under the age of 18, 🧵1/2

YouTube video by ErnestoCast Liam Ramos sera liberado por la presion publica

On Thursday, January 29, I explained the case of #LiamConejoRamos & predicted he would soon be released. He was today! See here how & why many people like him are detained with no conviction, for an unknown time, with few rights & oversight. #NoticiasCaracolAhora #ICE
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NEW BOOK: "Immigration and Urban Vitality: How Newcomers Make Cities Strong" available now in paperback, hardcover, and ebook: https://tinyurl.com/cityvitality

ICE  almost like invading armies in cities like Chicago armed almost like the militarily, threaten not only the undocumented immigrants with a criminal record but all residents. They disrupt the day-to-day of these communities, affect businesses; not necessary & counterproductive.

Dr. Ernesto Castañeda, Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies & The Immigration Lab at American University will be speaking at the Metropolitan Washington Workshop on Immigration and Race. 
Friday, January 30th, at 12:00 pm (ET).

Global Migration Graduate Certificate event
All are welcome: students, faculty, staff, external community members!

Stuck at home because of the snow? Looking for something to watch? Join us today at this webinar:  Sine Institute 250+ at American Fellows: Welcome Panel 1pm EST
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"A year of Trump: ICE, execution arm of the antimigration crusade" “Because they have quotas to arrest a certain # of people, under threat of dismissal, they are catching who they can. We see women, minors or citizens who are not deportable & end up being released," Ernesto Castañeda told France 24.

Ernesto Castañeda (@ernestocastaeda) Immigration is not and never was Trump’s strongest issue. Always a fearmongering big lie. He did not win the 2020 elections, and immigrants are not criminals nor a cultural threat.

Immigrants is not, and never was, Trump's strongest issue.
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'It's not even policing': ICE agents unleash 'terror in communities they pass through'

As Minneapolis mourns 37-year-old VA intensive care nurse Alex Pretti, fatally shot by a US Border Patrol agent, Eve Irvine is joined by Dr. Ernesto Castañeda at American University. Democratic senators are now vowing to oppose a funding bill for DHS.
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Growing opposition around the No Kings marches against authoritarianism and breaking the law around deportations and other issues, and now even more strongly with the support of people in Minnesota against the murder of Good and in favor of immigrant communities: a lot of solidarity. Somos Radio Arg

Many people in Minneapolis and elsewhere are angry at the level of violence that ICE has done not in the middle of a raid not looking for a particular immigrant with a criminal background with a warrant and on the way to their house 1/4