The number of people living outside their country of origin is continuing to increase for many reasons. To understand what migration will look like in the future, we need to understand migration trends and how they have evolved over time. 1. In 2020, the number of...
How do a vast majority of immigrates qualify for U.S. immigration? A 2020 analysis of U.S. State Department data revealed that family-sponsored visas, which can include spouses and unmarried children of permanent residents, brothers, sisters and older children of...
In between 2007 and 2017, the total number of undocumented immigrants living in the United States shrank by 14 percent. However, they still made up 23 percent of the total foreign-born population in 2017. 2017 was the first year in which Mexican people were not an...
According to data from Mexico’s Comisión Nacional de Búsqueda, which is overseen by the Interior Ministry, the number of currently disappeared people in Mexico surpassed 100,000 in the latest update. Combined with figures from a report by the Jesuits’...
There are many reasons why people around the world move from one location to another. Sometimes the move is of their own choosing, but other times it is involuntary, the latter being “as a result of the increased magnitude and frequency of disasters, economic...
I last wrote about Biden’s deportation policy. On the other side of deportation is immigration parole. Immigration parole allows someone who is inadmissible or does not have a legal basis to come into the United States to be allowed to enter for either a humanitarian...
