Study Group with Brett Rosenberg: Getting It Right At Home and Abroad: Immigration and Migration

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As the policy area sitting most literally on the border between foreign and domestic policy, immigration has been a policy and political issue of central importance for decades—and this election is no exception. This week, we’ll look at the intersections of Western Hemisphere policy and domestic border and immigration policy. We’ll also look at diaspora communities across the U.S. and their impacts on both domestic and foreign policymaking. Can expanding the aperture of our policy discussion—to include not only the border but also wider global migration considerations—produce new forms of progress in a polarized political environment?

GUEST: Andrea Flores, Vice President of Immigration Policy and Campaigns for FWD.us, will join Resident Fellow, Brett Rosenberg, in-person for the October 10 session.

At FWD.us Flores is working to develop a new political and policy framework on new migration to the United States. She is an attorney and policy expert who has spent her career advising lawmakers on reforms to the immigration system. She most recently served as a Chief Counsel in the U.S. Senate, where she helped negotiate a bipartisan bill to protect federal judges. Previously, she served in the Biden Administration as the Director of Border Management on the National Security Council. At the ACLU, she led the organization’s national immigration advocacy work and on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, she served as a policy advisor on battleground state policy issues. Andrea also served three years in the Obama Administration, both at the White House Domestic Policy Council and the Department of Homeland Security, where she worked on a range of policies including the creation and implementation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the 2013 Senate immigration bill. Andrea grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and attended Columbia Law School and Harvard College. She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a Fall 2023 Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics.

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