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A new report from the Council suggests Midwestern states are unprepared for President Obama's new immigration policies.

Foreign-born workers are on the land, in laboratories, and everywhere in between. Immigration reform will strengthen Midwest agriculture.

This survey showed that opinion was split on whether these unaccompanied minors should be treated as refugees or undocumented immigrants.

According to a new report, Midwestern policymakers—rather than federal leadership—must take action on immigration policy.

This report examines how immigrants offset population decline and an aging workforce in Midwest metropolitan areas.

A Chicago Council on Global Affairs report which shows bipartisan support among Midwestern business leaders to pass immigration reform.

Americans support some variation of immigration reform, but half overstate unauthorized immigration levels to the US, which intensifies bias against Mexican immigrants.

This report highlights the role of immigration in ensuring the Midwest’s future competitiveness and prosperity and identifies necessary policy directions or interventions.

While the midwestern public is somewhat divided on specific reforms, those who have accurate information about shifting immigration flows and changing labor needs express majority support for key immigration policy proposals.

For the first time since the question was first asked by the Council in 1994, only a minority (40%) of Americans consider a large influx of immigrants and refugees a “critical threat” to the United States