Migration Policy Institute

I don't think I, I get confused about the, the acronym, but I should know it.

I'm the co-chair along with Dr. Julie Sugarman from the Migration Policy Institute.

It's a great committee, so we are always working with our committee members on different hot topics and current events, trying to keep our NYELPA informed, and think about projects for the committee that are of high interest and high need.

So that keeps me going, too.

Though voices in the country are silenced, migration statistics speak louder than words.

According to a twenty-twenty-five report by the Migration Policy Institute, one-third of the Eritrean-born population of about six million is estimated to live abroad, citing indefinite mandatory military service, torture, and repressive humanitarian conditions as the cause for the growing exodus.

Despite knowing the dangerous journey ahead, many Eritreans continue to flee across the border to neighboring Ethiopia or Sudan, and often onward toward horrific conditions in Libya, which has been the subject of many civil society protests in the European diaspora in recent weeks, including Justice for Eritreans September twelfth protest in London.

This isolation has taken on sharper stakes as tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea have escalated over Ethiopia's ambitions for Red Sea access.

In certain conditions, when El Niño is particularly strong, its impacts can be devastating and force people from their homes.

This is Changing Climate, Changing Migration from the Migration Policy Institute.

This podcast explores the connections between the climate and human migration.

I am Julian Haddam.

Alexander Kirum is a global advisor and senior analyst at the Danish Refugee Council.

He focuses on predictive modeling and forecasting of forced displacement.

This has been another episode of Changing Climate, Changing Migration from the Migration Policy Institute.

Thank you so much for listening.

charge rules say that people who are likely to be dependent on the government for their basic needs aren't eligible to immigrate permanently to the United States.

Julia Gillette at the Migration Policy Institute says for a long time that meant that if someone received cash assistance or if they were institutionalized on the government's dime, they wouldn't be eligible for a green card.

But receiving other kinds of benefits wouldn't count against them.

Now the Trump administration is basically saying that individual immigration officers should have full discretion to decide what kind of public benefits use makes somebody a public charge and what doesn't count.

Now, what's tricky here is that we don't have a good sense of how many people we're talking about here.

The Migration Policy Institute estimated that between January and December of twenty twenty-five, there were about fifteen thousand people that had been deported to third countries.

And I think in this conversation, you have been discussing how shrouded in secrecy all of this is, and that can also happen with who is being sent where and what conditions they're facing when they go there.

And are they released when they go to that country or are they held briefly in detention when they go to that country? These are all questions that have arisen because all of this and this push is so new.

He says that the lure is tremendous because such a network stands to earn tens of thousands of dollars for each person encouraged to come to the U.S. to give birth.

But Julia Jalat of the Migration Policy Institute says it's important not to overstate the extent of the problem posed by alleged birth tourism.

It's a pretty small phenomenon.

Less than 1% of U.S. births annually can be attributed to birth tourism.