National Security and Immigration

Issues of national security are top-of-mind for voters this election cycle, as Americans have expressed increasing anxiety over illegal immigration and terrorism over the past year, according to Gallup. Penn State has experts who can put these complex topics into perspective, including explaining the impact of immigration on the U.S and how threats of political violence emerge.

• Penn State immigration experts can discuss the demographic patterns of U.S. immigrants and the social, economic and health assimilation of immigrants and their descendants, as well as the history of how Latin American immigrants have shaped the United States.
• Faculty members in Political Science specialize in terrorism, political violence and extremism in the United States, as well as counterterrorism and democratization abroad.
• Our faculty can also speak about the growing threats to cybersecurity posed by emerging technology such as artificial intelligence and large language models, such as ChatGPT.