immigration

If Border Closure Is Such Great Politics, What Happened On 11/4?

By / , , /

Deportations and border closures were political losers for President Trump and the Republicans. That’s because voters vote their pocketbooks. More than a few who read this opinion piece’s opening will disagree with its assessment, as will pundits seemingly. Right or left, they seem to monolithically believe that President Biden’s failure to secure the border […]

If Border Closure Is Such Great Politics, What Happened On 11/4? Read More »

Trump Can Have Booming Growth or Deportations, Not Both

By / , , /

People drive economic growth. Which means President Trump’s problem isn’t the Fed, it’s his own administration’s deportations. Trump wants economic growth, but he doesn’t want the people who make growth abundant. Which is just a comment that whatever one’s opinion on immigration, a lack of it combined with aggressive ICE attempts to arrest and

Trump Can Have Booming Growth or Deportations, Not Both Read More »

To Empty the U.S.’s Borders, Legalize the Arrival of Workers

By / , , /

“Up north is where we’ve gotten the money for everything – to build houses, to take care of families, to sow in the fields. If they don’t send money, the town stops.” Those are the words of Rosa Gomez Hernandez, a 37-year-old resident of Mexican town San Bartolome Quialana, and whose ability to live

To Empty the U.S.’s Borders, Legalize the Arrival of Workers Read More »

Let’s Please Not Insult Immigration With “High-Skilled” Central Plans

By / , /

“High-skilled immigration is key to America’s success.” That’s what Richard Hanania writes at the Cato Institute’s excellent Human Progress page. Hanania is not alone in making what he might agree is a trite assertion. Humans aren’t a cost or jobs taken, rather they’re inputs. To then assert that the arrival of high-skilled “treasures” (J.B. Say) boosts

Let’s Please Not Insult Immigration With “High-Skilled” Central Plans Read More »

Americans Don’t Hate Immigrants, They Hate Central Planning

By / , /

Americans loathe lines. See their disdain for the gasoline lines of the 1970s, and that were an effect of price controls naively meant to contain the cruel effects of a devalued dollar.  What’s funny and sad at the same time about the gasoline lines is that per Hedrick Smith’s The Russians, the Soviets of the

Americans Don’t Hate Immigrants, They Hate Central Planning Read More »

Robots Will Make the Need for Immigrants More Urgent Than Ever

By / , , /

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 »

Albania, Greece, and the Rich Person Mindset of Immigrants

By / , , /

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 »

The ICE Raids Are Anti-Business, Anti-Conservative, and Anti-American

By / , , , /

“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

The ICE Raids Are Anti-Business, Anti-Conservative, and Anti-American Read More »

Reinvention Is a Brilliant Constant of American Life

By / , /

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 »

Scroll to Top