On January 27, 2017, President Trump approved an executive order that banned Syrian refugees from entering the country indefinitely, all other refugees for 120 days, and citizens of the countries Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.
This is a huge policy change, so of course it's important to be informed about this. Very informed. With that said, these following articles may help you on your journey to becoming informed about Trump's immigration policy: "Trump's Executive Order on Immigration: What We Know and What We Don't" NY Times "President Trump's Immigration Order, Annotated" NY Times "What's the Legal Status of Trump's Immigration Order?" The Atlantic "At a Glance: Implementing the Trump Foreign Policy Agenda"* Council on Foreign Relations To learn more about recent immigration and refugees topics and issues in general (please note that some of these articles may have been published after Trump issued his order): Cato Institute:
Please refer to my Official List of Research Sources for more places to go and things to read on these topics. Thanks for reading! If you liked this post, please follow my Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter for more updates. You can read more posts here or articles on my Public Policies page. *This article was published a day before the order was signed. However, it still does have a lot of interesting information and commentary. All of the articles/pages I link are worth a read.
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So I know I said that I wouldn't have any more small update or irrelevant posts...but this one is important. A week ago, I created another blog called Lia From The Aviat (LFTA) which is a more casual blog about my everyday life. I also post small updates on there, so you know why I don't post something in a while. Go check it out, and I suggest you do especially in this month and the coming months because, as I said on LFTA, I will not be posting anything related to public policy on The Aviat in January, and maybe in February as well. That's because I am so busy...well, you can read the rest on LFTA. Anyways, I will mainly be on LFTA, giving everyone updates on what I'm doing and where I've been. Thanks as always for your continued support. I talk about think tanks like Cato, Brookings, Hoover, etc…way too much. For good reason, since they are excellent sources of information. But they are not the only good ones out there. So I wanted to shine the spotlight on a new player for a change: the Government Publishing Office (GPO). So what the GPO does is publish and bind documents for the government. According to the website, the GPO is “the Federal Government’s official, digital, secure resource for producing, procuring, cataloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating, and preserving the official information products of the U.S. Government”. I know. It sounds boring. But just head to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications! You can enter a keyword or a specific search term and it will pull up numerous free, digital documents dating back to the 1700s (yes, that old), including congressional hearings, audits, reports, bills/resolutions, speeches, and all sorts of government documents. This document that I found through the GPO, a House committee hearing on unexploded ordnance in Laos, seriously inspired my article on UXO in Laos. It is so useful to be able to read things that our representatives say when considering legislation…I hope that you can find interest in this as well.
If I had to sum up the GPO in three words, they would be: Official, Digital, Secure (totally ripped that off from the GPO’s website). And what’s not to like about that? You’ll find real-life documents on the actions of the government. It is a wonderful source for research since you can use the thoughts and opinions of legislators/government agencies, and you can find really good quotes on there on a large variety of political topics (these people make speeches for a living). Well, I hope you will check it out and give it a try! As always, you can check out my Official List of Resources for more equally trustworthy resources. Hello, kind readers. To go along with my last post, Top 5 Tips on Staying Informed, I detailed a recent example of how I tried to stay informed: I saw this tweet on my Twitter feed (from The Hill), and since I recalled hearing about supposed UN conflicts between the U.S. and Israel, and since I was actually planning to write an article about this eventually, I got a bit interested. So I clicked on the link, and it sent me to this short article on how Obama decided to not support an Israeli move during a UN session. After that, I wondered if the US had made any move thus far to cut support to Israel. I did this simple Google search of “did the us cut funding to israel”, but the results were pretty disappointing. The websites given were total not-trustworthy sources for research. The only remotely trustworthy source on the first page of the search was Reuters (not shown in the picture, sorry), and I couldn’t even trust that half of the time. Determined still, I went to the Cato Institute to try to figure things out, because although Cato does have a conservative bias, they have an article on about every subject on this Earth, so Cato is definitely a go-to for me, for basically any topic. I was happy when this showed up as the first search result. It led me to reading a somewhat-entertaining (I love public policy, but even I don’t find it entertaining often) article on the US subsidizing Israeli policies. And the answer is: no, we have not cut funding, so the question is, should we? (ooh, maybe I’ll do an article about this after all!)
And that was an example of my tip #3, which was following news sources/policy institutions on Twitter and checking out tweets to see what was new, which is so easy and convenient to do, especially with a mobile app, and it was also a little bit of tips #4 and #5, since you always have to keep an open mind for effective public policy research. IMPORTANT NOTE: As you can tell, I am no longer MIA, and I am officially back from a long trip, and I am glad that I did not try to post anything during my trip because the Wi-Fi was very unreliable...but now I am happy to be back. I hope you all have had a wonderful 2016, and I hope you are looking forward to this new year (please refer to my New Year’s Update if you want to know what’s going on with The Aviat). And, for something new, I have formally introduced myself on The Aviat’s home page, but in case you missed it, my name is Lia and I have a great interest in public policy and political science. So, I will be referring to myself as ‘Lia’ from now on. Other details of my identity will remain unknown…but I got tired of not having a name to go by on The Aviat! So there we go. Thanks as always for reading. For updates, check out my Twitter, or subscribe to my newsletter! Happy New Year! Stay informed, stay curious. |
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