205: Common Ground: Finding Solutions in Immigration Policy with Jeremy Robbins

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Jeremy Robbins is the Executive Director of the American Immigration Council. Previously, Jeremy spent more than a decade building New American Economy, the think tank and advocacy organization founded by Michael Bloomberg to make the economic case for smarter immigration policies, as NAE’s first and sole Executive Director.

Prior to that, Jeremy served as a policy advisor and special counsel in the Office of New York City Mayor, a judicial law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals, a Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellow working on prisoners’ rights issues in Argentina, and a litigation associate at WilmerHale in Boston, where he was part of the firm’s team representing six Bosnian men detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Jeremy received a JD from Yale Law School and a BA in political science from Brown University.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

Challenges and reforms in U.S. immigration policy
Examination of border management and immigration efficiency
Impact of enforcement spending and immigration court backlogs
Role of undocumented workers in the U.S. economy
Advocacy for a startup visa and immigration change
American Immigration Council's efforts in supporting immigrant communities

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Supporting Resources:

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-adam-robbins

Website - https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/

Email - [email protected]

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