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Why does mass deportation remain popular? Here are some polling results and a speculation of what the Trump administration may be politically astute to push the myth of non-citizens voting.  Psychologically, many older Americans likely think that foreign-born persons are effectively “voting”, at least figuratively in how we live.

Recent polls (Apr...


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The appellate court of DC has barred the Trump administration from a strategy to effectively wipe out the asylum program for many new applicants. In a nutshell: executive branch must use the removal and asylum procedures Congress enacted; it cannot replace them ...


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David Bier of the Cato Institute writes that Muslim immigrants (4M, 60% of whom are first generation immigrants) assimilate more than is suggested by standard polling. Nearly one in four Americans raised Musl...


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 Here is a study which estimates that that immigrants are responsible for 32% of aggregate U.S. innovation, with more than half of that effect coming from spillovers to U.S.-born collaborators.

Stanford Business School researchers, using patent records, identified likely immigrants and patenting from 1990 to 2016. They found that immigrants made u...


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The most important recent federal decisions on voter list acquisition have gone against the administration. Some courts said the Dept of Justice had not followed the statute correctly, others said the federal laws cited do not authorize this kind of sweeping access to sensitive state voter data. On April 10, U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin dismissed DOJ’s suit seeking Massach...


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