Recent uncertainties regarding the legal status of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program underscore the urgency for policymakers to reassess long-standing restrictions on government-sponsored healthcare subsidies for all immigrants.

“I’d say ICE simply doesn’t have enough enforcement resources to be able to find everyone who is here illegally and pick them up, so some percentage of people will be able to live out their lives in the United States, even though they don’t have legal status,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law.

Eswar Prasad, professor of international trade policy, says, “For China, the endgame seems to be a resolution that limits its financial losses while spreading more broadly the blame for the distressing and untenable situation that many highly indebted economies find themselves in.”

Sarah Kreps, professor of government, says, “It’s more that I think there’s no alternative. It is nearly hopeless to think that there’s an alternate universe where we just try to put this genie back in the bottle.”

Magnus Fiskesjö, associate professor of anthropology, discusses extrajudicial show trials in China in this opinion essay. 

“Given the current levels of mistrust and tension in the relationship, a good outcome would be a better understanding of each side’s concerns and red lines as well as modest progress on areas of overlapping interest,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, professor of government.

“Practically every manufacturer who has relied on lean-and-mean global supply chains now is much more worried about the resilience about those supply chains,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of international trade policy and economics. 

Angela Cornell, clinical professor of law, says, “Weakening the right to strike by making it riskier to exercise means it will reduce the only leverage unions have when negotiating with companies. This, of course, is a big tilt toward business interests and against the collective interests of workers.”

Sarah Kreps, professor of government, discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on the 2024 election.

Global Public Voices fellow Alexandra Dufresne argues that Onondaga County's emergency order banning housing and transport of NYC asylum-seekers undercuts the upstate tech industry's planned growth.