Guillermo Cantor, Ph.D.

Guillermo Cantor is the former Director of Research at the American Immigration Council, where he led the Council’s research efforts and managed its research team. He has authored numerous publications on immigration enforcement, immigration policy, and immigrant integration. He is also an affiliated scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. Cantor holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Publications

Changing Patterns of Interior Immigration Enforcement in the United States, 2016 -2018

  • July 1, 2019

To better understand the changing interior enforcement trends under the Trump administration, this report analyzes individual-level data on immigration enforcement outcomes.

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The Immigrant Success Story

  • June 11, 2018

Some confusion exists regarding the economic aspects of family-based immigration. To help unpack those aspects, this report focuses on one of them—namely, the earnings of family-based immigrants.

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Deportations in the Dark

  • September 19, 2017

Mexican migrants suffer a host of violations, abuses, and ill treatment while in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities.

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