A Brief Overview of Birthright Citizenship
This is a draft copy of a new section to the updated edition of Terri Given’s and my book. …. While the Constitution gave Congress the power to decide naturalization policy, most immigration policy was…
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Student Visas 101
The US immigration system is ridiculously inefficient, slow, and complicated process. If you are going through anything with immigration, you should always, always check with an immigration lawyer (not a notorio, a lawyer) and, if…
Immigration Detention: They do what now?
First rule about immigration policy: yes, it is that bad, and yes, it’s legal.
Second rule about immigration policy: that applies everywhere.
If you have never experienced our immigration system or spent time studying this area, you probably have a lot of assumptions about immigration that don’t hold up. For example:
First rule about immigration policy: yes, it is that bad, and yes, it’s legal.
Second rule about immigration policy: that applies everywhere.
If you have never experienced our immigration system or spent time studying this area, you probably have a lot of assumptions about immigration that don’t hold up. For example:
Impeachment- Round 3
Well, it’s been a while and a lot more stuff has happened. Before we get to the new, let’s look at some history: Watergate grand jury letter (link) Watergate report release (story here, docs here)…
Impeachment- Round 2
So some more stuff happened this weekend. Here we go: Why did the White House start hiding transcripts of calls? (WSJ) Apparently the head of the DOJ asked for foreign governments to help investigate ……
Impeachment- now with wayyyy too many links
It’s basically a full time job to keep up with what’s going on with the impeachment that isn’t an impeachment yet. I’ve spent a good two hours updating my website and collecting links, and there’s…
The demise of polling has been greatly exaggerated
So today I and a colleague gave a presentation on interpreting polls for students. I focused on why polls get a bad rap, and what you need to keep in mind when it comes to…
The Executive Order on Immigration: Why I’m Against it
I’ve had some thoughts about the executive order that I would like to get out, especially considering version 2.0 is rumored to appear soon. As of now, there is still a stay on the original act, and it’s looking increasingly likely the courts will block it. However, I wanted to state why I opposed the ban as bad policy in the hopes that it may convince someone, somewhere, not to support similar actions.
Twitter and the Campaign
As part of a project I’m working on dealing with how immigration is framed, I had downloaded all tweets from the accounts of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders from November 1, 2015 until November 9, 2016. This time period covered both the Republican and Democratic primaries, their conventions, and the general elections.
Clinton was the most prolific tweeter, tweeting 7,148 times, followed by Cruz at 6,528. Sanders followed with 5,812 tweets, and Trump, who is most closely associated with the medium, tweeted the least at 4,827 tweets. Ted Cruz was the biggest retweeter, and both his and Sander’s tweets decreased after they dropped out of the race.
What were they tweeting about?