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Stasis Grid

Author Info

Source Type

Categorical

Definitional

Causal

Evaluation

Action

Jurisdiction

Up to three names,
write them all; 4+,
write first name et
al. (i.e., Smith et
al.)

(popular, scholarly,
trade, government)

Does X exist?

Is X a Y?

Does X cause Y?
Is Y a result of X?

Is it good or bad?
Fair or unfair?
Harmful or
beneficial?

What should be
done about X?

Who is responsible?

1. Lauarene
Powell Jobs

Popular

Should
immigrants be
deported?

Is America a
safe heaven for
refuges.

2 J. Kenneth
Blackwell

Popular

Is Obama
betraying the
black
community

Because
Americans are
scared,
politicians are
using
immigrants to
fuel their
campaign.
Do more
immigrants
cause higher
black
unemployment
rates?

3. Ana Aparicio

Popular

4.
Elizabeth Diaz

Popular

Is the GOP
Candidates
antiimmigration
stance built on
lies and
paranoia?
The Pope is on
the Mexican
side of the
immigration
issue

5. Victor Morton

Popular

Is it moral to
subject these
families with

Politicians
need to stop
using
immigration
as their
campaign
Is it unfair that
Obama is trying
to help
undocumented
immigrants?

Do immigrants
cause wages to
go down?

We the people
should not be
fearful of
foreigners
because we
once were
foreigners

Is Obama and
the immigrants
responsible for
the problems in
the black
community?
Should
immigrants be
deported?

Why was the


pope on the
Mexican side of
the border?

Are these raids


beneficial or
harmful to

Obama is
planning to
conduct raids

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this kind of
aggression?

society.

Author Info

Source Type

Categorical

Definitional

Causal

Evaluation

Up to three names,
write them all; 4+,
write first name et
al. (i.e., Smith et
al.)

(popular, scholarly,
trade, government)

Does X exist?

Is X a Y?

Does X cause Y?
Is Y a result of X?

Is it good or bad?
Fair or unfair?
Harmful or
beneficial?

6. Cristina
Silva

Popular

Many
Americans
believe that
their jobs are
being taken by
undocumented
immigrants.

7. Meredith
Hoffman

Popular

8. Chin,
Gabriel J

Scholarly

Does
someones race
for financial
status affect
how threatened
they feel by
undocumented
immigrants?

Courts treat
unlawful entry
or removability
as a quasicrime.

Does the fear


of being
arrested and
deported cause
children to not
want to go to
school anymore
Immigration
status can have
substantial
effects on the
criminal
prosecution and
sentencing of
noncitizens for
ordinary non-

Is it fair that kids


cant even go to
school because
they live in fear.

Is it fair that the


court did not
explore a
stronger reason
for developing a
more precise
understanding of
a clients
immigration

targeting
illegal
immigrant
families form
central
America.
Action
What should be
done about X?

Should the
government
crack down on
employers
who hire
immigrants
without
permission to
work in the
US.
What should
be done about
kids who are
in school but
are
undocumented
immigrants

Jurisdiction
Who is responsible?

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immigration
crimes.

9. Erin B.
Corcoran

Scholarly

10. Daniel
Costa, David
Coope, and
Heidi Shierholz

Scholarly

11. Jeanne
Batalova

Scholarly

What are the


presidents
limits on
exercising
prosecutorial
discretion on
the
immigration
arena?
How many
unauthorized
immigrants
reside in the
US?

Do
immigrants
take the
dirty, dificult,
and
dangerous
jobs that are
vital to the
U.S. economy
but that
domestic
workers are

status?

What is the
impact of
removal on
individual
families and
communities?

Are most
immigrants
Hispanic or
Latino?

DHS should
utilize their
prosecutorial
discretion
more .

How much do
immigrants
contribute to the
economy?

How successful
are the current
immigration laws
in place today?

Should
unauthorized
immigrants be
criminalized
or legalized?

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unwilling to
fill

12. Daniel
Martinez and
Jeremy Slack

Scholarly

13. Leighton
Ku

Scholarly

14. Jacqueline
Hagan, Nestor
Rodrigues, and
Brianna Castro

Scholarly

What are the


social
ramifications
for migrants
who are
exposed to
potentially
unfamiliar
criminal
element while
in jail for
unauthorized
entry.

What does it
mean to be
undocumented
in the United
States?

Is it fair to
incarcerate
unauthorized
immigrants?

Do immigrants
cause the US to
spend more
money on
Health Care?
US
enforcement
policies are
straining
transnational
families and
imposing fear
on immigration
communities.

There is little
reason to believe
that the US is
spending too
much on health
care for
immigrants.
What are the
social effects of
mass
deportations by
the United States
government?

To what extent
do immigrants
contribute to
US medical
expenditures
Conceptualiza
tions of
immigration
policy
enactment of
the liberal
state need toe
be reassessed
and migration
policies in the

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United states
need to be
revisited in the
light of their
human costs.
15. Gordon H.
Hanson

16.

Scholarly

How much
does the US
spend on
border patrol?

The aggregate
economic
effects of
policy reform
do not appear
to be very large

What changes
need to be
made to the
US
immigration
policy?

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