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Research Skills: Source Types: Authority

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Who has Authority?

Reporters

Heads of Agencies who work with immigrants or

Policy Influencers

Daniel Connolly

http://www.danielconnolly.net/bio/

Caitlin Dickerson

https://www.nytimes.com/by/caitlin-dickerson

Christiane Amanpour

amanpour.com

Thomas D. Homan (ICE)

https://www.ice.gov/leadership

Margaret O’Sullivan (NSC) https://nscphila.org/staff/margaret-osullivan

Joe S. Vasquez (Chairman of the Committee on Migration of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/immigration/churchteachingonimmigrationreform.cfm

Heritage Foundation
https://www.heritage.org/immigration

Center for American Progress https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/view/

 

 

 

Academics                                                

Immigrants or Refugees     

 

Abel Rodriguez

Assistant Professor at St. John’s University School of Law

Diane Guerrero   

http://inthecountrywelove.com/

Daniel Groody

Associate Professor, Notre Dame University

Systematic Theology

dgroody@nd.edu

Steven Pinker

Professor, Harvard University

Psychology

pinker@wjh.harvard.edu

Jose Antonio Vargas

https://joseantoniovargas.com/

Sergey Brin

sergeu@google.com