With around 300 million legal crossings per year, the U.S.-Mexico border is one of the world’s most dynamic areas of human mobility. Despite this connectivity, human mobility between the United States and Mexico remains controversial, as reflected by the failure of the U.S. Congress to address immigration reform. The center works to advance public policies that balance border security and efficiency in the legitimate trade and travel between the two countries.
Research Project
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The Future of U.S.-Mexico Relations: Forecast to 2040 This project will critically examine the U.S.-Mexico relationship, applying strategic foresight methods to identify the variables that will likely impact the future health of the binational relationship, project the possible outcomes of the relationship under the current political climate, and examine the broader challenges that the U.S. and Mexico will face in the coming decades. |
Publications
- Migrant Associations: A Valuable Bridge Between Mexico and its Diaspora
- Mexican Migrant Entrepreneurs in the U.S.
- López Obrador's Initial Policies Towards Central American Migrants
- Population at Risk: Elderly Undocumented Mexican Workers
- The Future of Immigration
- Solve the Real Border Problems
- When Minors Cross the Border Alone
- Political Turpitude: The Negative Impact of Zero-Tolerance Immigration Policies on Irregular Labor Markets
- The U.S. Visa System and the Migration of High-Skilled Mexican Workers into the United States: Uncertainties and Options
- A Vulnerable Population: U.S. Citizen Minors Living in Mexico
- The uncertain future of Texas’ Senate Bill 4
- Can DACA be saved?
- Skilled Mexican Migrants in Texas: What the Numbers Hide
- Policy Adrift: Mexico's Southern Border Program
- U.S. Visas for Foreign Professionals: Insights on H-1B and TN Visas
- Mexican Entrepreneurial Migration to the United States: Open Questions, Policy Challenges
- Transnational Commerce and Labor Flows
- Immigration and the United States: A Path to Resolution
- Mexico's Not-So-Comprehensive Southern Border Plan
- Unaccompanied Alien Children in the United States, Mexico and the Northern Triangle
- Politicians Should Not Discount Mexican Migration
- The Uncertain Future of the Texas DREAM Act
- New Immigration Patterns: High-Skilled Entrepreneurial Migration from Mexico to the United States
- Unaccompanied Children and the U.S. Immigration System: Learning to Compensate
- Co-Responsibility and Reform: Foreign and Domestic Perspectives on Immigration
- Transit Migration in Mexico: Domestic and International Policy Implications
- The Pervasive Myth of an Immigration Crisis
- “Illegal” Immigration on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Is It Really a Crisis?
- The Media Cycle, Political Theater and the Border Crisis Myth
- Central America’s Unaccompanied Minors: Shared Problem, Shared Solution
- Proposals on Migration Crisis Lack Sufficiency
- (More) Political Gridlock and the (Growing) Immigration Crisis
Podcast Episodes
- Migrant Caravans and Mexico's Southern Border
- Immigration reform, a Business Case
- The U.S.-Mexico Border: Destinies Intertwined
- Unaccompanied Minors in Mexico and the United States
- Psychological Distress Among Undocumented Immigrants
- Presidential Candidates and Migration Policy Proposals
- High-Skilled Migration from Mexico and Mexico's Response to US Proposed Policy Changes
Infographics
Events
- The U.S.-Mexico Border: Destinies Intertwined
- The Future of Immigration in Houston
- Film screening: The “Rational Middle” of Immigration
- Uncertain Partners: U.S.-Mexico Relations Under the Trump Administration
- Talent, Skill and Brain Circulation: How Migrants Contribute to Labor Integration
- Co-Responsibility and Reform: Foreign and Domestic Perspectives on Immigration
- Still Dreaming: My Hopes for the Immigration Reform Bill
- Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Legislative and Political Roadblocks with Tony Payan
Experts
- Tony Payan
- Erika de la Garza
- Luz Maria Garcini
- Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
- Elizabeth Salamanca
- Jesús Velasco