“The same Times article observes that even without the workplace raids, deportations have reached new heights for two years running at the direction of President Barack Obama — revealing (as if we didn’t already know) that virulent xenophobia is alive and well in the Democratic party too. This is, after […]
Archive for the 'Immigration' Category
Jan31st2011
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and ModernPolitics. 5 CommentsJan27th2011
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Foreign Policy, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 0 Comments“One of America’s sources of long-term strength is its ability to assimilate foreign talent, argues former Pentagon planning official Thomas Mahnken in the new issue of Saisphere, an obscure in-house publication of the international affairs school at the Johns Hopkins University. ”Such immigration could prove to be an enduring source of U.S. strategic advantage,” he writes. […]
Dec7th2010
My Tentative View Of The Dream Act
Published by in Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and ModernPolitics. 3 CommentsA couple of people have asked me privately what I think about the Dream Act so I thought I would post it here as well. This has been my general reply to the question:
“There is a trade off (inverse relationship) between welfare and immigration. The more welfare, the less people are supportive of […]
Aug9th2010
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and ModernPolitics. 2 Comments“Despite criticisms from Republican politicians about the White House’s overly lenient immigration policies, this administration is actually deporting more immigrants than the Bush administration.” — Catherine Rampell, writing in the New York Times economix section
Jul29th2010
Two Arguments In Favor Of Immigration
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and Personal. 9 CommentsWith the Arizona (anti-)immigration laws coming into affect soon, I have seen a lot of arguments in favor of immigration by those opposed to the Arizona laws. Most of them are either weak on economics, or miss the point completely. As a strong supporter of immigration, I thought I’d give two of my favorite arguments […]
Jun23rd2010
The Context Behind The Arizona Law
Published by in Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and LatinAmerica. 0 CommentsAs explained by Rodolfo de la Garza, professor of political science at Columbia University:
In recent years, Texas has been all but closed off, and so is California. It’s created a funnel, so you’ve got an increased flow of illegal immigrants into Arizona. Phoenix, and Tucson to a lesser degree, have become the unwanted recipients of […]
Apr30th2010
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and ModernPolitics. 8 Comments“But that’s why we shouldn’t have laws that enshrine any sort of profiling. If the immigration problems in Arizona are really so serious that they merit deep intrusions upon the liberty of citizens who happen to resemble illegal immigrants, than they are serious enough to intrude on the liberty of everyone. […]
Jan18th2010
The Best Way To Help Haiti Victims
Published by in Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 2 CommentsPaul Romer gives my preferred solution:
There is a natural complementary approach that is a much better bet than giving colonialism another chance–letting Haitians migrate somewhere with better governance and rules. This is the surest answer to the question posed in the beginning. It can give them access to the urban infrastructure, buildings, equipment, and the […]
Mar26th2009
From a recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper:
This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early […]
Mar11th2009
The Protectionist And Anti-Immigration Congress
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and ModernPolitics. 3 CommentsThe Harvard Crimson reports:
Troubled financial institutions that recruit heavily from Harvard may soon face restrictions on hiring international students if they accepted federal bailout funding. Under a recently passed amendment to the federal stimulus bill, companies participating in the Troubled Assets Relief Program—a government financial-rescue plan implemented last fall—will face more restrictions in hiring H-1B […]
Feb12th2009
Anti-Immigration Surfaces
Published by in Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and ModernPolitics. 1 CommentFirst it was “buy American only”, now its this:
While I think President Obama has been doing his best to keep the worst protectionist impulses in Congress out of his stimulus plan, the U.S. Senate unfortunately voted on Feb. 6 to restrict banks and other financial institutions that receive taxpayer bailout money from hiring high-skilled immigrants […]
Aug20th2008
A Cure For Real Estate Markets Downturn
Published by in Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 4 CommentsGiven by Alan Greenspan:
“The most effective initiative, though politically difficult, would be a major expansion in quotas for skilled immigrants,” he said. The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that […]
Jun27th2008
The More The Better
Published by in Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and ModernPolitics. 1 CommentGeorge Will makes the case for immigration we can all agree on:
Two-thirds of doctoral candidates in science and engineering in U.S. universities are foreign-born. But only 140,000 employment-based green cards are available annually, and 1 million educated professionals are waiting — often five or more years — for cards. Congress could quickly add a zero […]
Apr8th2008
Krugman On Immigration
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 0 CommentsCATO’s Will Wilkinson, in discussing Paul Krugman’s recent book, writes:
In Krugman’s view, if the working class contains many members without the franchise, it is itself disenfranchised. So it is that Krugman pretty nearly celebrates one of the most shameful chapters in 20th century American politics: the progressive (read: “racist”) imposition of strict immigration controls to […]
Mar5th2008
Republicans And Immigration
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and ModernPolitics. 11 CommentsJohn McCain, as everybody had been expecting, has officially clinched the Republican nomination. This just goes to show something I had believed all along: Republicans, as a whole, are not anti-immigration.
The Republican relationship with immigration is a lot like the Democrat relationship to education - you have a few people that make alot of noise […]
Jan7th2008
“It’s not just that they’re brown; it’s that they’re brown and want to use your stuff. Let more people in, the argument goes, and they’ll end up on welfare, their kids crowding your schools, their parents crowding your hospitals. You could argue that the economic concerns are just masking mass racism, but that doesn’t explain […]
