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Immigration is dominating the election conversation on Twitter

Immigration, a major topic throughout this presidential campaign, has dominated the election-related conversation on Twitter in the past week.

According to the Electome — a project of the Laboratory for Social Machines at the MIT Media Lab that’s been analyzing social media data about the election — since the beginning of August, tweets about immigration usually make up around 18 percent of the Twitter conversation around core election issues.

But tweets on immigration soared to almost 60 percent of the election-related Twitter conversation after Donald Trump’s statements about a potential “softening,” his visit to Mexico and then his address on the topic Wednesday night in Phoenix.