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Issues
209 contested civic and policy issues. Each entry presents multiple perspectives in terms their adherents would recognize. Click into any issue to read the editorial framing, the spectrum of positions, and to open a Coach session about it.
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- Elections & voting · 18
- Money in politics · 12
- Governance & institutions · 16
- Economy & taxation · 22
- Healthcare · 15
- Education · 14
- Housing · 10
- Labor & welfare · 13
- Immigration · 12
- Criminal justice · 15
- Civil rights & liberties · 14
- Environment & energy · 15
- Foreign policy · 15
- Technology & data · 12
- Media & information · 6
How the U.S. processes asylum claims under the 1980 Refugee Act and Refugee Convention obligations — backlogs, standards, and proposed reforms.
The 14th Amendment guarantee of citizenship to nearly all persons born on U.S. soil, and proposals — by statute or executive action — to limit it.
Federal investments in border infrastructure, personnel, and processing capacity, plus policy choices on parole, "remain in Mexico," and metering at ports of entry.
Funding for physical and virtual barriers along the U.S. southern border, including pedestrian fencing, vehicle barriers, surveillance systems, and supporting infrastructure.
The legal status of people brought to the U.S. as children without authorization — protected from deportation by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) but with no permanent legal status.
The Diversity Immigrant Visa program — commonly called the green-card lottery — which allocates a fixed number of immigrant visas annually to applicants from countries with low recent immigration to the U.S.
Whether to require all U.S. employers to use the federal E-Verify system to confirm new hires' work authorization, currently mandatory only for federal contractors and in some states.
How the United States should set caps for, allocate, and oversee the H-1B specialty-occupation visa used heavily by technology, healthcare, and research employers.
How many immigrants the U.S. should admit annually, and through what categories — family-based, employment-based, diversity, refugee — debated in the context of demographic and labor-market trends.
Proposals for large-scale interior immigration enforcement aimed at removing a significant share of the estimated unauthorized population residing in the United States.
The annual presidential ceiling on U.S. refugee admissions and the scope of the federal program that resettles vetted refugees in cooperation with nonprofit partners.
Whether state and local law enforcement should cooperate with federal immigration authorities — declining to honor ICE detainers, opting out of 287(g) agreements, or actively cooperating.