History Professor Maria Cristina Garcia writes in this Wall Street Journal editorial that the policy makers who crafted the 1980 Refugee Act never imagined that within a generation the U.S. would be flooded with requests.
"A long-term solution on immigration is still needed—and any discussion has to start with a deeper understanding of the country’s history on the issues, as well as the circumstances of those seeking to enter the U.S.," Garcia writes. "Obscured in all the government statistics are asylum seekers from Central America. Unlike refugees, who are referred to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for resettlement in the U.S., asylum seekers make their way to the U.S. to plead their case."
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Using a new technique, Paul Malinowski and other researchers in Kyle Shen’s lab found that iron selenide’s superconducting “dome” is more closely linked to resistance caused by imperfections in its crystal lattice than to the number of electrons flowing through the crystal.
