Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Activities Mobilize Hispanic Voters

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory B. Smith ◽  
Donghee Jo ◽  
David Lazer
Keyword(s):  
Customs And Border Protection ◽  
Hispanic Voters

scholarly journals The integrative force of political institutions? Direct democracy and voter turnout across ethnic and nativity groups

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Manatschal
Keyword(s):  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
First Generation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Alternative Measures ◽  
Hispanic Voters ◽  
Democratic Elections ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractMuch has been written on the positive effect of direct democracy (initiatives, referendums) on voter turnout. However, we have limited knowledge about potential differential effects on voters belonging to various ethnic groups. The paper argues that depending on a group’s responsiveness to the political context, direct democracy can (dis-)integrate voters (from) into the electorate. Empirical analysis of Current Population Survey (CPS) voting supplement survey data, together with data on the absolute use of direct democracy across US states, corroborates this theoretical expectation, however lending more support for the disintegrating assumption. Frequent direct democratic elections further widen the negative voting gap between first-generation Asian voters and voters living in the US for three generations or longer, whereas they tend to diminish this voting gap for first-generation Hispanic voters. The disintegrative pattern for first-generation Asian voters remains even significant when excluding California from the state sample, yet not the integrative tendency for first-generation Hispanics. Additional analyses using alternative measures of direct democracy and voting, and applying statistical adjustments to address causality concerns, confirm the robustness of these findings, which shed light on the so-far underexplored (dis-)integrative potential of political institutions.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Arthropod Interceptions by APHIS-PPQ and Customs and Border Protection in Puerto Rico

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Jenkins ◽  
Russell F. Mizell ◽  
Skip Van Bloem ◽  
Stefanie Whitmire ◽  
Leyinska Wiscovitch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Customs And Border Protection

A Look Ahead at the 2020 US Elections: The Role of Candidate Diversity in Political Participation

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 436-441
Author(s):  
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes ◽  
Jose R. Bucheli
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Diverse Population ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Representative Data ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Hispanic Voters

An increasingly diverse population in the United States has given rise to a growing body of literature that analyzes the causes and consequences of descriptive representation. Using individual-level representative data on registration and voting for the entire United States over the 2008-2018 decade, we find that diversity in the candidate pool promotes the registration and voting of eligible-to-vote individuals, particularly those belonging to the youngest generations of voters, those located in swing states, and growing minorities, as in the case of Hispanic voters. Given the changing electorate, increasing candidate diversity might prove crucial in promoting political and electoral engagement.

scholarly journals Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-405
Author(s):  
Nathan K. Hensley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Legal Guardian ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Customs And Border Protection ◽  
Physical Custody

“We saw no issues,” reports the Department of Homeland Security in a self-study of its practices for detaining children at the US–Mexico border, “except one unsanitary bathroom.” The system is working as it should; all is well. “CBP [Customs and Border Protection] facilities we visited,” the report summarizes, “appeared to be operating in compliance with the 2015 National Standards on Transport, Escort, Detention, and Search.” A footnote on page 2 of the September 2018 document defines the prisoners at these facilities, the “unaccompanied alien children,” as “aliens under the age of eighteen with no lawful immigration status in the United States and without a parent or legal guardian in the United States ‘available’ to care and [provide] physical custody for them.” Available is in scare quotes. This tic of punctuation discloses to us that the parents of these children have been arrested and removed. They are not available, and cannot take physical custody of their children, because they themselves are in physical custody. In a further typographical error, the word “provide” has been omitted: the children are without a parent or legal guardian in the United States “available” to care and physical custody for them. The dropped word turns “physical custody” into a verb and sets this new action, to physical custody, in tense relation to “care.”

US shipping law is unlikely to ease despite hurricanes

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
First Line ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
The Us ◽  
Popular Pressure ◽  
Customs And Border Protection ◽  
Infrastructure Repair

Significance US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had earlier denied a request from Puerto Rico to waive certain provisions of the Jones Act which would allow vessels of any registry to ship cargo from the US mainland to Puerto Rico. However, CBP eventually granted the waiver under significant political and popular pressure due to the devastation of Hurricane Maria and slow pace of disaster response. Impacts Infrastructure repair will have a greater impact on Puerto Rico’s recovery than the duration of the Jones Act waiver. Labour maritime unions will lobby senior Democrats to block any retrenchment of mariner protections. Washington’s ‘America First’ line on trade will see it side with US shipbuilders against increasing foreign-built vessels for cabotage.

Ten-Print Fingerprint Capture: Effect of Instructional Modes on User Performance

2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (10) ◽  
pp. 597-601
Author(s):  
Mary Theofanos ◽  
Brian Stanton ◽  
Shahram Orandi ◽  
Ross Micheals ◽  
Nien-Fan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Capture Effect ◽  
User Performance ◽  
Verbal Instructions ◽  
States Government ◽  
Customs And Border Protection ◽  
And Training

Despite the increased deployment of biometric technologies in United States government applications, not enough attention is being paid to the human factors that such technologies involve. The use of biometric applications will be unfamiliar to many users, who may neither understand nor be comfortable with the technology. Currently, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers are critical in communicating and training users in the acquisition of fingerprints. Since user behavior can affect both the throughput of the system as well as the quality of the captured images, guidelines for developing interactions with biometric applications that increase throughput and image quality would be valuable. This study examines the effect of instructional modes on user performance. Posters were not as effective in providing instructions to users as video or verbal instructions.

The Bush and Gore Presidential Campaign Web Sites: Identifying with Hispanic Voters during the 2000 Iowa Caucuses and New Hampshire Primary

2002 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 887-904 ◽  
Author(s):  
María E. Len-Ríos
Keyword(s):  
New Hampshire ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Hispanic Populations ◽  
Hispanic Voters ◽  
Common Association ◽  
Al Gore

This study examines presidential campaign discourse addressed to Hispanic voters during the 2000 Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. Burke's concept of identification is used to determine how candidates identified with Hispanics through (1) common association, (2) antithesis, and (3) subtlety or cunning. Results reveal that George W. Bush invested more in his Spanish Web site and differentiated more among distinct Hispanic populations to create identification with specific subgroups, while Al Gore presented a pan-Latino message. Overall, only four of the thirty-one analyzed messages focused specifically on mobilizing voters during the primary/caucus season.

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