Perhaps no other mainstream writer examined the 2016 electorate's position on immigration more consistently or presciently than Vanity Fair's T.A. Frank.
As it became increasingly clear that Donald Trump would win the election, Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews of MSNBC began examining what role the immigration debate played in the election:
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released an exhaustive report that finds immigration redistributes income and costs government billions of dollars every year.
National Public Radio has a useful but flawed fact check of Donald Trump's immigration speech in Arizona last night. Here are five areas where the NPR fact checks and clarifications could use some of their own:
The Associated Press has a useful but flawed fact check of Donald Trump's immigration speech in Arizona last night. Here are four areas where the AP's fact checks or clarifications could use some of their own:
The New York Times' July 1 editorial, "Why Guest Workers Are Easily Exploited," was a belated but welcome criticism of the H-2B visa program from the Gray Lady (See NumbersUSA's H-2B coverage here).
Mother Jones details another scathing report about the H-2B guest worker program, this time from the National Guestworker Alliance.
BuzzFeed News has another investigative triumph with "Making The Grades - How one California university faked students' scores, skated by immigration authorities -- and made a fortune in the process." by Molly Hensley-Clancy.
Who says the age of bipartisanship is dead? Politico reports that Republican and Democrat lawmakers are coming together on an issue they can agree on: the critical shortage of low-wage workers in the United States.