2017 Federal Identity Forum & Homeland Security

Marc Rosenblum
Assistant Secretary, Office of Immigration Statistics
Department of Homeland Security


Since January 2016, Marc Rosenblum has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director of the Office of Immigration Statistics at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Prior to joining DHS, Dr. Rosenblum spent five years at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), most recently as Deputy Director of MPI’s U.S. Immigration Policy Program, and three years at the Congressional Research Service (CRS). At MPI and CRS, Dr. Rosenblum led research efforts on immigration enforcement, border security, employment verification, unaccompanied child and family migration, and the 2014 Immigration Executive Actions. In 2006, Dr. Rosenblum served as a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow on Senator Edward Kennedy’s Judiciary Committee staff, where he was part of the team that worked to pass that year’s comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill. He also supported Senator Kennedy’s staff during the 2007 CIR debate, and staffed the Senate Judiciary Committee during the 2013 CIR debate. In 2008-09, Dr. Rosenblum served as a member of the Obama campaign’s Immigration Policy Advisory Committee and then as a member of the President-elect’s Transition Team. In 2011-13, Dr. Rosenblum served as a member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Estimating Costs to the Department of Justice of Increased Border Security Enforcement by the Department of Homeland Security. And in 2015 Dr. Rosenblum briefly served as a member of the ICE Advisory Committee on Family Residential Centers (ACFRC), before resigning from the Committee in order to accept his current position at DHS. Dr. Rosenblum earned is BA at Columbia University and his PhD in political science at the University of California, San Diego.

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