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Immigration Policy

We aim to create a fair, humane, orderly, and workable immigration system to strengthen the United States.

A woman, originally from Bangladesh, holds her 7-month-old daughter as she recites the Pledge of Allegiance.
A woman, originally from Bangladesh, holds her 7-month-old daughter as she recites the Pledge of Allegiance after officially becoming a U.S. citizen during a naturalization ceremony in New York City on July 3, 2018. (Getty/Drew Angerer)

What We're Doing

Enhance border security

We support evidence-based measures that make our borders secure and orderly.

Strengthen protections for victims of persecution

We promote workable solutions to fix and modernize the asylum system and the refugee resettlement program.

 

Support a path to citizenship for long-term undocumented immigrants

We seek to win an earned path to citizenship for long-term undocumented immigrants, including Dreamers, farmworkers, and mixed-status families.

Modernize legal immigration

We advance ideas to update legal immigration to ensure economic growth and secure America’s future.

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Harris and Walz Work Hard To Improve Public Health and Safety During the Opioid Epidemic, While Trump Lies and Undermines Efforts To Save Lives Article
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Harris and Walz Work Hard To Improve Public Health and Safety During the Opioid Epidemic, While Trump Lies and Undermines Efforts To Save Lives

Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz have supported evidence-based law enforcement and public health measures to address the opioid epidemic, while former President Trump has blocked bipartisan border security legislation, falsely blamed immigrants, and jeopardized access to treatment.

Debu Gandhi, Jill Rosenthal, Marquisha Johns

The GOP’s myth of an ‘open border’ In the News
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The GOP’s myth of an ‘open border’

Debu Gandhi debunks the “open border” myth and discusses why Congress must act on a bipartisan basis to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

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Debu Gandhi

Latinos Voice Continued Concerns About S.B. 1070 Article
Immigration rights protesters gather near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Phoenix, Arizona, after the Supreme Court decision regarding Arizona's anti-immigrant law, S.B. 1070, Monday, June 25, 2012. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

Latinos Voice Continued Concerns About S.B. 1070

CAP’s Immigration Team examines the latest polls to gauge the depth of antipathy among Latinos for the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the law’s “papers please” provisions.

Angela Maria Kelley, Marshall Fitz, Philip E. Wolgin, 1 More Ann Garcia

Romney’s Latino Problem Report
Martha Espinosa stands outside a Scottsdale, Arizona, resort to protest against Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who was speaking inside, and Arizona's controversial immigration law, S.B. 1070.

Romney’s Latino Problem

Angela Maria Kelley, Marshall Fitz, Philip E. Wolgin, and Ann Garcia explain how Mitt Romney's profound disconnect with Latino voters has generated growing concern within his campaign and across the Republican establishment.

Angela Maria Kelley, Marshall Fitz, Philip E. Wolgin, 1 More Ann Garcia

Nightmare Ahead: What a Romney-Rubio Presidency Would Mean for Immigration Report
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is gaining popularity as a potential vice presidential choice for Mitt Romney. A Romney-Rubio presidency would push a number of counterproductive policies on immigration. (AP/ Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Nightmare Ahead: What a Romney-Rubio Presidency Would Mean for Immigration

Angela Maria Kelley, Philip E. Wolgin, and Ann Garcia explain how a Romney-Rubio presidency would advance the a barrage of counterproductive legislative priorities on immigration.

Angela Maria Kelley, Philip E. Wolgin, Ann Garcia

History Repeats Itself as Romney Takes a Hardline on Immigration Article
Mitt Romney's recent embrace of hardline anti-immigration rhetoric could cost him in key states like Florida and Nevada.   (AP/ Charles Dharapak)

History Repeats Itself as Romney Takes a Hardline on Immigration

Mitt Romney's recent embrace of hardline anti-immigration rhetoric is reminiscent of Sen. John McCain's changing stances during the 2008 campaign, write Ann Garcia and Philip E. Wolgin.

Ann Garcia, Philip E. Wolgin

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