Jeanne Tower Cox, a member of our Executive Advisory Board and an…
Category: Migration
Texas-Mexico Center Awards Next Series of Research
The Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center is excited to announce the four grant…
Community Perspective | Immigrants are not Threats, They’re Potential Partners
Despite the recent political rhetoric and anti-immigrant sentiments, the economic benefits of…
Despite the recent political rhetoric and anti-immigrant sentiments, the economic benefits of immigration are well-established in the empirical literature. A 2011 meta-analysis by economist Michael Clemens found that dropping all current immigration restrictions would result in a doubling of world GDP.
The New Middle of Immigration Reform: The View from Texas
We sponsored a survey in partnership with the Bipartisan Policy Institute to…
Expert Interview | Exploring Income Inequality in the U.S. and Mexico
Texas-Mexico Center Research Fellow Pia Orrenius, vice president and senior economist at…
Texas-Mexico Center Research Fellow Pia Orrenius, vice president and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, conducted a study looking at the relationship between migration and income inequality in the United States and Mexico. We asked her a few questions about her work.
Foreign Born Workers Important to Building Texas
Texas needs foreign workers in order to keep up with its construction…
Former ‘Border Czar’ Gives Real Facts About Immigration from Mexico
Alan Bersin, former Border Czar and Assistant Secretary from the U.S. Department…