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Wong, Tom K. 2020. COVID-19 and the Remaking of U.S. Immigration Policy? Empirically Evaluating the Myth of Immigration and Disease. Working Paper 11. La Jolla, CA: U.S. Immigration Policy Center (USIPC) at UC San Diego. Available here
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USIPC Director Tom K. Wong joins the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) delegation for a day of congressional briefings based on new polling here
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USIPC Director Tom K. Wong submits an expert declaration in support of the Flores Settlement Agreement, which prohibits indefinite child detention, based on USIPC research
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USIPC publishes first-of-its-kind research based on over 600 surveys of asylum seekers returned to Mexico under the “Remain in Mexico” policy
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USIPC Director Tom K. Wong, with the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties and Jewish Family Services, briefs House Oversight Committee on the treatment and conditions asylum seekers face in U.S. immigration detention 
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USIPC Director Tom K. Wong, with Alliance San Diego, briefs Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the treatment and conditions asylum seekers face in U.S. immigration detention 
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USIPC publishes groundbreaking report on treatment and conditions in immigration detention based on analysis of thousands of intakes of detained asylum seekers, August 28, 2019
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USIPC Director Tom K. Wong submits expert declarations in three separate federal lawsuits against the administration’s public charge policy based on USIPC research
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USIPC Director Tom K. Wong publishes white paper for California Department of Social Services (DPSS) on size and characteristics of the undocumented AAPI population in California 
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USIPC polling helps win legal representation for immigrants in deportation proceedings in Fairfax County, Virginia