It’s so easily forgotten that people aren’t a cost. They’re an input, always and everywhere, and this truth won’t lose any validity as robots proliferate. Quite the opposite. Which is why it’s useful to respond to Manhattan Institute (MI) president Reihan Salam’s recent observation in the form of a question about immigration in an opinion piece […]
Robots Will Make the Need for Immigrants More Urgent Than Ever Read More »
Immigration to the U.S. is by its name a wage positive. It’s tautological. Higher wages are what instigate immigration, so to pretend as some do that the arrival of immigrants pushes down wages implies that the purest of market signal of all (the migration of humans) is a stupid one. No, not likely. More
Love or Hate Immigrants, They Do Not Drive Down Wages Read More »
Immigrants are almost monolithically poor, but they have the mindset of a rich person. That’s why they’re immigrants. They want better, and will do what it takes to get better. What’s written above can be found within the Albanians in Greece. They used to be so poor. Which is a statement of the obvious.
Albania, Greece, and the Rich Person Mindset of Immigrants Read More »
“Acouple employees left for the rest of the day. They were pretty rattled.” Those were the words of multi-restaurant owner and Georgetown Events Hospitality Group president Bo Blair, in a Washington Post report by Tim Carman, Warren Rojas, and Maria Luisa Paul. Blair was referencing the arrival of ICE agents at various restaurants in town, including at
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When asked if he attended his Lincoln High School (Brooklyn) reunions, the recently passed New York City real estate mogul and civic leader Marshall Rose said he did not, that he thought most of his classmates would have been in jail. In the New York Times obituary (written by Sam Roberts) from which the previous anecdote came,
Reinvention Is a Brilliant Constant of American Life Read More »
Highly emotional members of the left have been known to bemoan immense wealth. Possessing a fixed pie, zero sum view of the world, they imagine that wealth is taken as opposed to being created. Which speaks to one of the beauties of immigration for members of the right: it exposes the left’s beliefs about
Immigration, ‘Unskilled’ Workers, and the Yuma, AZ Fallacy Read More »
The view here is that mass deportation of Mexicans from the United States will ultimately result in quite a few more Mexicans searching for a way to get to the United States than before. It’s basic economics. Regardless of ideology, please read on. “I build their dream houses. That means I depend strictly on
Deportation of Mexicans Will Result In More Mexicans In the U.S. Read More »
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has taken to blaming the Republicans for problems associated with a surge of immigrants at the southern border. Republicans have hit back. One editorial asserted that “Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.” Without taking sides, it should be obvious to Republicans that “failed policy” is
It’s Southern Border-Style ‘Policy’ That Immigrants Are Escaping Read More »
Who needs Karl Marx when you have Nicholas Kristof playing conservatives so brilliantly?
On the Matter of Immigration, Nicholas Kristof Plays Conservatives Like a Stradivarius Read More »
There’s always lots of disagreement about immigration, and much less about migration. Many would agree that at least historically, New York was the final test for ambitious Americans.
If I Can Make It In the United States, I Can Make It Anywhere Read More »
