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On U.S. immigration policy

From Congressional Research Service, a primer on U.S. immigration policy; and a report on Permanent Legal Immigration to the United States: Policy Overview. Ming Hsu Chen (Colorado): Leveraging Social Science Expertise in Immigration. What can the U.S. learn from how other countries handle immigration? Immigrants give America a foreign-policy advantage: History proves they can help the U.S. keep other countries in check. Trump doesn’t know it, but Iranians are the Norwegians he’s been looking for. Scott McLemee reviews Anchor Babies and The Challenge of Birthright Citizenship by Leo R. Chavez.

America needs “new seed” immigrants: Francis Wilkinson on the case for low-skilled immigration. Sponsor an immigrant yourself: A new kind of visa would let individual Americans — instead of corporations — reap the economic benefits of migration. GOP senator suggests we need fewer immigrants because robots are coming.