[ and INS' efforts to deport Hany Kiareldeen based on secret evidence (that were ultimately withdrawn), also put the INS and Meissner in the limelight.
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Return to the Carnegie Endowment and subsequent work at the Migration Policy Institute
After finishing her tenure at the INS, Meissner' returned to work at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on the Immigration Policy Project. In July 2001, Kathleen Newland Kathleen Newland is co-founder and Board of Trustees member of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a think tank located in the United States and focused on the study of migration policy worldwide (but with particular focus on the United States an ...
and Demetrios G. Papademetriou created the Migration Policy Institute from the International Migration Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment, and Meissner's Immigration Policy Project subsequently moved to MPI.[ Meissner currently holds the title of Senior Fellow and Director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program.][
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Other affiliations and honors
Meissner is currently serving or has previously served on a number of distinguished boards and panels.[ These include the National Academy of Public Administration (Senior Fellow, 2003 to present)] and the Administrative Conference of the United States. She is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank the Inter-American Dialogue.
Among the honors she has received are the White House Fellowship mentioned above, a Department of Justice Special Commendation Award, and listings in Who's Who in America and Outstanding Young Women of America.[
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Personal life
Meissner was married to Charles F. Meissner, who worked as an economist at the World Bank
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[ and later served as assistant commerce secretary under the administration of ]Bill Clinton
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.[ The two had met while undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.][ Charles died in a plane crash in ]Croatia
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, along with Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown
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and 31 others.[ The couple has two grown children.][
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See also
* Kathleen Newland Kathleen Newland is co-founder and Board of Trustees member of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a think tank located in the United States and focused on the study of migration policy worldwide (but with particular focus on the United States an ...
, co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute
* United States Secretary of Homeland Security
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, the position that would (approximately) replace that of INS Commissioner, after the restructuring of the INS as sub-agencies of the newly created U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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. The first few Secretaries of Homeland Security were Tom Ridge
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, Michael Chertoff
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, Janet Napolitano
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, and Jeh Johnson
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* USCIS Commissioner, another position that could be considered a successor to the position of INS Commissioner. The first few USCIS Commissioners were Eduardo Aguirre, Emilio T. Gonzalez, Alejandro Mayorkas
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, and León Rodríguez
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References
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1941 births
Living people
Politicians from Milwaukee
Women in Wisconsin politics
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University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison staff
United States Department of Justice officials
21st-century American women
Members of the Inter-American Dialogue