Dan Berger is a partner at Green and Spiegel U.S., leading the academic and medical immigration team. He is also a nonresident academic fellow at Cornell Law School as well as an honorary fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. In addition, Dan advises the Talent Mobility Fund on STEM immigration issues and co-founded the Path2Papers clinic at Cornell Law School.
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The New Immigration Regime
Restrictions, Outcomes, and What’s Next
Thursday, January 08, 2026, 1pm
EST
Event Overview
Immigration was a top priority in 2025 for President Trump. The administration has restricted immigration in many ways, ranging from travel bans to mass deportations. The White House has stated that the United States may have negative net migration to the U.S. in 2025 for the first time in over 50 years.
In the meantime, employers face labor shortages. The demographics of an aging population and declining birth rates are indisputable. More people worldwide are fleeing the breakdown of civil society, climate change, and persecution than ever before. Over 10 million people in the United States lack immigration status and fear deportation. And our immigration courts face a backlog of over 3 million deportation cases.
Join retired Cornell Law professor Stephen Yale-Loehr and a panel of Cornell experts as they discuss how immigration law and policy changed in 2025 and what we might expect in 2026.
What You'll Learn
- What changes to the immigration system the Trump administration made in 2025
- The impact of those changes on communities, the economy, and immigration law
- What legal challenges these policies have faced and where those legal challenges stand
- What immigration changes might occur in 2026 by the Trump administration and/or Congress
Speakers
Michelle Brané is the Executive Director at Together and Free, a nonprofit that provides support services to migrant families. She also is a nonresident fellow in Cornell Law School’s Migration and Human Rights Program.
Michelle previously served as the Immigration Detention Ombudsman and led the Family Reunification Task Force at the Department of Homeland Security. Before her government roles, she was the Director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the Women’s Refugee Commission.
Theresa Cardinal Brown
Nonresident Fellow, Migration and Human Rights Program
Cornell Law School
Theresa Cardinal Brown is a nonresident fellow in Cornell Law School’s Migration and Human Rights Program. Her career spans three decades in bipartisan federal immigration law and policy, including law firms, government service, policy advocacy, and consulting. Theresa has worked at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and in senior advisory positions within the Department of Homeland Security under both the Bush and Obama administrations.
Bitta Mostofi is an immigration policy fellow at Hyphen and a nonresident fellow in Cornell Law School’s Migration and Human Rights Program. Bitta was a senior advisor to the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Biden administration. She previously served as the Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs in New York City.
Stephen W. Yale-Loehr
Professor of Immigration Law Practice (Ret.)
Cornell Law School
Stephen Yale-Loehr is a retired immigration law professor at Cornell Law School and co-author of “Immigration Law and Procedure,” the leading 21-volume treatise on U.S. immigration law. Before he retired, Professor Yale-Loehr also taught immigration and asylum law at Cornell Law School and was of counsel at Miller Mayer in Ithaca, New York.
Dan Berger
Partner
Green and Spiegel U.S.
Dan Berger is a partner at Green and Spiegel U.S., leading the academic and medical immigration team. He is also a nonresident academic fellow at Cornell Law School as well as an honorary fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. In addition, Dan advises the Talent Mobility Fund on STEM immigration issues and co-founded the Path2Papers clinic at Cornell Law School.
Michelle Brané
Executive Director
Together and Free
Michelle Brané is the Executive Director at Together and Free, a nonprofit that provides support services to migrant families. She also is a nonresident fellow in Cornell Law School’s Migration and Human Rights Program.
Michelle previously served as the Immigration Detention Ombudsman and led the Family Reunification Task Force at the Department of Homeland Security. Before her government roles, she was the Director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the Women’s Refugee Commission.
Theresa Cardinal Brown
Nonresident Fellow, Migration and Human Rights Program
Cornell Law School
Theresa Cardinal Brown is a nonresident fellow in Cornell Law School’s Migration and Human Rights Program. Her career spans three decades in bipartisan federal immigration law and policy, including law firms, government service, policy advocacy, and consulting. Theresa has worked at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and in senior advisory positions within the Department of Homeland Security under both the Bush and Obama administrations.
Bitta Mostofi
Immigration Policy Fellow
Hyphen
Bitta Mostofi is an immigration policy fellow at Hyphen and a nonresident fellow in Cornell Law School’s Migration and Human Rights Program. Bitta was a senior advisor to the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Biden administration. She previously served as the Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs in New York City.
Stephen W. Yale-Loehr
Professor of Immigration Law Practice (Ret.)
Cornell Law School
Stephen Yale-Loehr is a retired immigration law professor at Cornell Law School and co-author of “Immigration Law and Procedure,” the leading 21-volume treatise on U.S. immigration law. Before he retired, Professor Yale-Loehr also taught immigration and asylum law at Cornell Law School and was of counsel at Miller Mayer in Ithaca, New York.
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