Julia Gelatt

Sep 14, 2023 | migrationpolicy.org | Julia Gelatt

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has received yet another blow to its survival, with a federal court again ruling that the executive branch exceeded its authority in creating the program. But with litigation likely to continue for years, it is attrition that is actively reducing the reach of a program closed to new entrants by prior court orders.

Feb 21, 2023 | migrationpolicy.org | Julia Gelatt

With the U.S. unemployment rate hitting a 54-year low in January 2023 and more than 10 million job vacancies recorded monthly since mid-2021, the economy is hungry for workers. Yet longstanding bureaucratic inefficiencies in the legal immigration system and case backlogs that worsened dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic are preventing individuals eligible for immigration to the United States from filling some of the vacancies.