Angelo Dagonel (APRW)
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Today's speaker
Angelo Dagonel, "Legislative Agenda Setting in the American Immigration Bureaucracy, 1965-2020"
Abstract
The saliency of immigration politics brings to surface recurrent questions about the legislative capability to influence bureaucracy. Most questions focus on a gridlocked inability to pass reform bills. However the administrative arms which implement immigration policy are subject to frequent oversight across its conflicting responsibilities of enforcement and service. Oversight hearings offer a great opportunity to understand what Congress prioritizes for the bureaucracy, and where alignment, persuasion, and disagreement occurs. This paper uses a corpora of subcommittee hearings on the administration of immigration policy from 1965 to 2020 to describe when and why enforcement and service are prioritized in agenda setting discourses between legislators and bureaucratic executives.
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