Giving Compass' Take:

• Charles Stimson at The Heritage Foundation reports on the recent immigration policy that caused confusion and backlash - and how it could have been avoided. 

• What can we do to ensure the next policy roll-out from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will go better?

• Here are 8 immigration policy areas for the U.S. to consider this year. 

We can’t think of a better example of how not to roll out a policy than what happened last week when the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published an alert regarding the citizenship of children born overseas.

The way the policy was rolled out led many to believe that the Trump administration was ending birthright citizenship for children born to U.S. citizens stationed overseas, which naturally would have been a big deal.

It did no such thing.

Rather than briefing stakeholders and the media before the rollout, or explaining how the policy would work once in force, or even publishing “frequently asked questions” along with the policy–all standard ways to roll out new policies–U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services just published a poorly written policy change that caused an immediate firestorm.

Media outlets, politicians, and scores of military personnel stationed overseas, thought the policy change ended birthright citizenship for children born to U.S. citizens working for the federal government or military stationed overseas.

Read the full article about immigration policy by Charles Stimson at The Heritage Foundation.