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ByPhillip Kim

Mathematical Approach to Immigration Reform Predictions

Tom Wong, an assistance professor at UC San Diego who grew up being an illegal immigrant, formulates statistics to predict how many “yes” and “no” there will be from Congress regarding the immigration reform bill. To read more about his predictions, please read Cindy Chang’s article below:

Immigration Reform Predictions Are Mathematical and Personal

Tom Wong sat in the parking lot of a San Diego McDonald’s, scarfing a double cheeseburger and listening to the Senate’s roll-call vote on immigration as it live-streamed over his iPhone.

Landrieu, aye. Leahy, aye. Lee, no.

Just as he had predicted.

Finally, the 100th name: Wyden, aye. Relieved and smiling broadly, he called his wife with the good news. Not only had the bill passed, but his statistical models had worked nearly perfectly. He was right about all but a few senators.

As the immigration battle shifts to the House, word has spread among activists that Wong might be the Nate Silver of immigration reform — the go-to data geek with the crystal ball.

But Wong doesn’t just want to predict the future. He also wants to change it, by giving immigrant-rights advocates the statistical ammunition they need to influence lawmakers.

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ByPhillip Kim

GOP Donors Press on for Immigration Reform

Top GOP donors are now pressuring the House to pass the immigration reform legislation and fix the broken system. To learn more about the updates of immigration reform and what GOP donors are doing to convince the House, please read Meghashyam Mali’s article below:

Top GOP Donors Press Lawmakers to Act on Immigration Reform

More than 100 top Republican donors and fundraisers are pressing GOP lawmakers to act on immigration reform, according to a report from The New York Times.
The donors sent a letter to Republican lawmakers on Tuesday urging them to “take action to fix our broken immigration system.”

Among the prominent signatories are Karl Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush and a top GOP strategist, and former Vice President Dan Quayle.
The letter calls for measures to “secure our borders,” a system for U.S. companies to “hire the workers they need while making it impossible to hire workers here illegally,” and a “path to legal status for undocumented immigrants.”

The effort was organized by former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, who served in the George W. Bush’s administration and is the founder of the group Republicans for Immigration Reform.
Gutierrez told the Times that the group would lobby GOP lawmakers over the August recess.

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