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 San Francisco Chronicle and The Nation are headlining a series of crowdfunding campaigns to sponsor new immigration reporting through Beacon, which is offering $3 million in matching grants.
The editorial board of the New York Times took a cautiously favorable view of Hillary Clinton's promise to take President Obama's executive actions on immigration further than his administration believes is within the law. The editorial and Clinton's comments define the immigration debate as strictly a question of what to do with the 11 million people in the U.S.
Administration officials have been telling the media that federal judge Andrew Hanen's injunction against President Obama's November executive actions on immigration limits the administration's ability to prioritize deportations. President Obama says that's nonsense.
This week Rep. Marsha Blackburn called attention to the most controversial and least discussed aspect of President Obama's executive actions on immigration:
In her story, "CRS Report of the Week: The President's Immigration Accountability Executive Action," Colby Itkowitz of In The Loop writes:
The New York Times' headline says "House Votes to Revoke Legal Protections for Millions of Immigrants." There is no down-the-middle interpretation to be found here. The headline tells the reader what they are supposed to feel before they read the story.
Rep. Robert Aderholt introduced a bill this week to prevent the Obama Administration from granting work permits to people in the country illegally. Greg Sargent thinks House Republicans may not attach defunding language to DHS and writes "If Republicans cave on this, it would be a very big deal."
Could we be on the brink of a shift in conventional wisdom when it comes to high-skilled immigration?
"...a federal court has allowed U.S. tech workers to challenge extensions of foreign laborers' status here," reports Kenric Ward of the Daily Signal.