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Hans
von
Spakovsky,
The Heritage Foundation’s
manager on the election law
reform initiative, and Bryan
Caplan, economics professor
at George Mason University,
debated if President Donald
Trump’s
immigration
platform harms the United
States in an event hosted by
The
Michigan
Review
on
Friday night.
In his opening statement,
Caplan attacked many of the
actions
Trump
has
taken
against immigration. Caplan
explained
the
economic
benefits
of
immigration
and that immigrants do not
commit crimes at the rate
that Trump has said they do.
Caplin said since immigration
increases total production,
the gains nationally tend to
outweigh the losses.
Spakovsky,
however,
advocated for the actions
taken
by
the
Trump
administration,
including
laws that need to be enforced
— especially for those that
enforce legal immigration.
“You
often
hear
the
terms that we have a broken
system,” Spakovsky said. “We
don’t have a broken system.
We have a very complex set of
laws governing immigration
and who we allow in and
who we don’t allow in. The
problem has been for decades
is that the political will to
enforce the law was not there
in Washington.”
Undeclared
student
Dylan
Calewarts
was
disappointed
the
event
didn’t explicitly address if
Trump’s
immigration
plan
is hurting the United States,
but appreciated the topics
discussed.
“I thought it was great
that the issues were being
talked about from a policy
angle, not from a personality
… angle. I would say that the
point was struck home that
the Constitution gives 100
percent
immigration
and
naturalization authority to
Congress and the only power
the president has is what
Congress has given him,”
Calewarts said.
The term “illegal aliens,”
Spakovsky
added,
is
the
legal term used for illegal
immigrants, so they should
be called such. The deviation
from the legal term, he said,
is a way for those who want to
enforce immigration law to be
discredited.
“The
reason
this
has
happened, that it’s supposedly
politically incorrect to use
the correct legal term, is
because many people want
to blur the line between
illegal immigration and legal
immigration
…
the
whole
point of trying to blur that
Through
discovery,
treatment and implementation
— along with the use of analytics
and big data — University of
Michigan researchers will soon
advance specialized medicine
and personalized health care.
The
recently
revealed
Precision Health initiative —
which
University
President
Mark
Schlissel
announced
at his Leadership Breakfast
earlier this month — will
combine several research areas
across the University outside of
medical disciplines to create a
broad approach to optimizing
the use of research data.
Aside
from
incorporating
these
different
disciplines,
however, Precision Health is
partnered with the University’s
Office of the Provost, School
of Public Health, College of
Engineering
and
Michigan
Medicine.
Tina
Creguer,
Precision
Health senior project manager,
said the goal is ultimately
to improve patient care in a
way that addresses several
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MAX KUANG/Daily
Tim Carney, Commentary Editor at the Washington Examiner, moderates the Michigan Review Debate at the Union
Friday.
Notable conservative thinkers debate
Pres. Trump’s immigration platform
Hans von Spakovsky and Bryan Caplin headline event hosted by Michigan Review
COLIN BERESFORD
Daily Staff Reporter
Too close for comfort
The Michigan football team
nearly suffered another
upset in Bloomington, but
junior running back Karan
Higdon came through with
a touchdown in overtime to
seal a victory. » Page 1B
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See PRECISION, Page 3A
Each week, The Michigan Daily
will be publishing a wrap-up of the
most important bills proposed in
Michigan Legislature over the past
seven days:
SB 620: This bill would amend
a 1976 law on sexual education to
require the teaching of consent
in sexual education programs in
school, to address sexual assault,
bystander intervention and dating
violence.
State Sen. Curtis Hertel, D-East
Lansing, proposed the amendment
to the bill, calling it “Yes Means
Yes” legislation in the press release
on his website.
“College-aged women are four
times more likely than any other
age group to face sexual assault.
When we send our kids off to
college, we should worry about
their grades and how they are
going to pay for their books, not if
they will be sexually assaulted,”
Hertel said in the press release.
The bill aims to clarify the
definition of consent, including
what it looks like in a committed
relationship.
SB 629: This bill seeks to modify
See WRAP-UP, Page 3A
Weekly MI
state house
legislative
wrap-up
GOVERNMENT
Legislature passes bills on
tax reform, consent, sex
education, water quality
COLIN BERESFORD
Daily Staff Reporter
The
national
spotlight
placed on the debate over
kneeling during the national
anthem was brought Monday
night to the Ann Arbor City
Council,
as
four
council
members knelt during the
Pledge of Allegiance.
Council
members
Jason
Frenzel, Sumi Kailasapathy,
Chip
Smith
and
Chuck
Warpehoski
all
knelt
in
silent
protest
during
the
Pledge of Allegiance, which
is traditionally said prior to
every City Council meeting.
Warpehoski
announced
his intention to kneel during
the
pledge
prior
to
the
council meeting in a post on
his website. In that post, he
compared kneeling during the
pledge to kneeling during a
football game for an injured
player.
“I can’t speak to what is in
each person’s heart, but for
me to ‘take a knee’ is an act of
attention, of concern, and of
respect. And it is in that spirit
that I take a knee at tonight’s
City
Council
meeting,”
Warpehoski wrote.
In
the
portion
of
the
council meeting designated
for
announcements
from
the
council
members,
Kailasapathy explained why
she joined Warpehoski in
kneeling.
“For me democracy is more
than just symbolic, it’s actually
holding
up
democratic
practices,” Kailasapathy said.
“I would want others to judge
Members of
City Council
kneel during
nat’l anthem
See COUNCIL, Page 3A
Four councilmembers knelt in solidarity
at the body’s meeting on Monday
MORGAN SHOWEN
Daily Staff Reporter
City residents, students gather for
peace and justice solidarity march
Over 100 brave the rain to participate in nationwide movement at Hanover Square Park
Meeting at Hanover Square
Park and marching to Liberty
Plaza in the rain, over 100
University
of
Michigan
students, Ann Arbor residents
and others took part in the
Nationwide Solidarity March
for Peace and Justice Saturday
afternoon.
The Ann Arbor march was
in coordination with similar
marches across the country,
all of which were aimed at
promoting peace and standing
up to all forms of hatred and
violence.
According
to
Ann
Arbor
resident Corky Wa, an organizer
of the march, the purpose of the
march was to boost the spirits
of those who may be exhausted
from constant activism since
the start of President Donald
Trump’s term.
“After months and months of
calls and letters and emails and
postcards, people are starting
to lose their mojo and the hate
seems to be stronger,” Wa said.
Though the attendance of the
march was dampened by rain,
Wa led her fellow activists in a
protest featuring chants against
racism, the proliferation of
nuclear
weapons
and
the
MORGAN SHOWEN
Daily Staff Reporter
See MARCH, Page 3A
See DEBATE, Page 3A
CAT MYKOLAJTCHUK/DAILY
Protestors at the Nationwide Solidarity March for Peace and Justice in Hanover Park Saturday.