#Immigration

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

While I don't have a position on @Peter_Turchin's theories overall, I do think that the idea of reducing immigration in order to raise wages makes no sense. Data shows immigration

Clint Smith

ClintVSmith

National's Strike Raptor Border Security Force. they're advertising it w a pic of a US cop in a bullet-proof vest..& that's weird but it also made me wonder - where

Lindsey Graham

LindseyGrahamSC

In a matter of weeks, President Joe Biden has rolled back a substantial part of the gains it took years for the Trump Administration to achieve in the fight to

Pedro Rios

Pedroconsafos

Quick rant on #SecretPolice term:Politicians describing @CBP as #SecretPolice do so, in part, to disassociate their political party's complicity in decades of overkill funding to an agency that uses militarization

kritikaldesi

kritikaldesi

Academics really need to pay attention to what's happening with regards to international students right now. My experience as an F-1 student was that *almost nobody* who's also not an

David Bier

David_J_Bier

On his main issue, Trump actually lost ground *among his own party*, setting aside the backlash it's caused among Democrats. Nativists' arguments failed spectacularly, far more than I could have

Sebastian Veg

sebastianveghk

HK Bar spells out worries regarding the Immigration Amendment Bill:“The regulations to be made under the proposed new section 6A(1)(b) would, however, authorise the Director to prohibit any person, including

Chaminda Jayanetti

cjayanetti

There's no electoral payoff in boosting migrant rights - Labour has to do it for moral reasons By me, for the Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/01/labour-immigration-keir-starmer?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other&_

Ross Kempsell

rosskempsell

Revealed: A Hong Kong couple could have to pay as much as £14,000 to become UK citizens under govt's new visa route, @timesradio has found. Not inc costs for any

Jonathan Blitzer

JonathanBlitzer

Interesting note (h/t @NickMiroff) on the finalized asylum agreement btw US & El Salvador. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/el-salvador-asylum-us-border/2020/12/15/2a1f682a-3f2a-11eb-a402-fba110db3b42_story.html These asylum a

Michael Hobbes

RottenInDenmark

Yes if only America had better immigrants we wouldn't have so much intolerance. I write for the Atlantic.https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1351731370972897285 This is a common trope, the idea that we can change the

Cris Ramón

CramonBPC

Biden mentioned immigration before discussing strong labor unions also caught my ear. As a former union steward, I’m not opposed to both. But I can see how these two policy

Taniel

Taniel

A big day in Georgia today: The new sheriff of Cobb County terminated the county's (287g) contract with ICE.This used to be Newt Gingrich's base; it had a longtime GOP

Jeff Spross

jeffspross

Economists struggle to find evidence that immigration reduces wages, yet business leaders' support for immigration is clearly based on believing it does just that. This suggests 1) economists are wrong,

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan

The surge of migrants and asylum seekers into Europe that peaked in 2015-16 has had profound consequences for women because most of the newcomers were young, male and from Muslim-majority

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/OK let's talk about immigration and wages.Lots of people think immigration reduces wages, at least for some groups of native-born workers.It is very difficult if not impossible to dissuade them

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