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Interactive Feature on Trump’s Immigration Policy in the NY Times with Social Explorer Analysis
TUESDAY, OCT 18, 2016
A new interactive article by Jugal K. Patel in The New York Times features data and analysis compiled by Social Explorer's Andrew Beveridge.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump recently stated that he wants to "keep immigration levels within historical norms," but did not define those ranges. The Times investigates two hundred years of the history of immigration populations and quotas to explore what that could mean in practice. For example, these scenarios:
The interactive includes population data compiled by Social Explorer's Andrew Beveridge from Census Bureau Estimates and Historical Statistics of United States (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Check out the full feature and explore the interactive charts to compare immigration levels over the years.