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Record W97160517

Law and Border: The Seven-Hundred-Mile-Fence Proposal and the Rule of Law

2008· article· en· W97160517 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ann Graham

Bibliographic record

VenueThinkTech (Texas Tech University) · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration, Refugees, and Integration
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFence (mathematics)MileLawPolitical scienceGeographyEngineeringGeodesy
DOInot available

Abstract

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This article proposes that the current immigration policy does not work and should be replaced with a universally enforceable immigration policy that can be successfully implemented. Because of limited resources, the new immigration policy must balance the following issues: the rule of law, human rights, national security, the economy’s dependence on cheap migrant labor, the costs and benefits of Mexican migrant workers, and the meaning of being an American. The author recommends decoupling national security and immigration policies, reducing spending and focus on militarization of the border, establishing a path for legalization of undocumented workers, and resuming bilateral talks with Mexico. The article discusses the proposed fence along the United States-Mexico border. The author explains this fence does not address the immigration concerns with the Canadian border, sea borders, or international airports. Next, the author explains how current immigration policy does not follow the rule of law. The author discusses the trade-offs we face in the implementation of a sound immigration policy. The author discusses human rights concerns arising from the current immigration policy. The author provides a history of immigration reform from the 1800s to the present day. The author concludes with recommendations for a better immigration policy.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.032
Threshold uncertainty score0.063

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0120.024
Scholarly communication0.0110.012
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0160.013
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.227 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2008
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