Guest worker programs and worker abuses
A while back, Daniel Costa of the progressive Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that advocates for the interests of poor Americans, did an interesting blog post titled On International Migrants...
View ArticleThe Good and Bad of the Immigration Reform Blueprint
This post originally appeared on the Cato-at-Liberty blog here and is reprinted with the author’s permission. Today, the so-called Gang of Eight senators revealed a blueprint for an immigration reform...
View ArticleAlex Nowrasteh’s new policy analysis of guest worker programs
Alex Nowrasteh‘s latest policy analysis on guest worker programs has just been published by the Cato Institute and can be accessed here on the Cato Institute website (here’s the direct link to the...
View ArticleMichael Clemens on the “path to citizenship”
Michael Clemens, who heads the migration-related initiatives at the Center for Global Development, recently wrote a blog post titled Care About Unauthorized Immigration? The ‘Path to Citizenship’ Is...
View ArticleEisenbrey argues against increasing US visas for high-skilled work
Ross Eisenbrey of the Economic Policy Institute has written an op-ed in the New York Times titled “America’s Genius Glut” with the argument that the United States should not increase non-immigrant...
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America Does Not Have A ‘Genius Glut’
This post was originally published on the Cato-at-Liberty blog here and is republished with the permission of the author. On Friday, Ross Eisenbrey of the Economic Policy Institute wrote an op-ed in...
View ArticleTiered Guest Workers — Preliminary Details & Observations
This post was originally published on the Cato-at-Liberty blog here and is republished with the permission of the author. Union and business negotiators have supposedly reached a deal on the major...
View ArticleMichele Wucker was making the case for open borders 7 years ago
I recently finished Michele Wucker’s Lockout, a 2006 book advocating a liberal US immigration policy. Superficially, it’s overly similar to Jason Riley’s Let Them In; both co-blogger Vipul and I find...
View ArticleForget not the temporary migrants
There are many different ways to think about migration; when we discuss the subject, often people’s vision seems to be of someone moving with intentions of permanently settling and acquiring...
View ArticlePath to Citizenship vs. Legalization: Let the Immigrants Choose
This post was originally published at the Cato-at-Liberty blog here and is reproduced with the author’s permission. Representative Goodlatte (R-VA) is working toward a compromise on legalization and a...
View ArticleAllow Renewals for Guest Worker Visas
This post was originally published at the Cato-at-Liberty blog here and is reproduced with the author’s permission. Reforming low-skilled guest worker visas is a vitally important part of immigration...
View ArticleThe stability of excluding migrants from the franchise: part 1
One of the main concerns surrounding open borders, or radical immigration liberalization in general, is political externalities: migrants may vote in ways that destroy the prosperity-creating...
View ArticleJoseph Carens on the ethics of immigration: part 1
In academic philosophical circles, Joseph Carens is well known as a proponent of open borders. His 1987 article Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders was included in our pro-open borders...
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NAFTA’s Labor Agreement
Last November President Obama was heckled by pro-migrant activists demanding that his administration take action to halt deportations. The President responded that he was unable to take further steps...
View ArticleAre restrictive guest worker programs in employers’ interests?
This post revisits a subject I last wrote about in December 2012. In that post, I discussed Daniel Costa’s critique of guest worker programs as they exist now, and noted how moves in the direction of...
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Misinterpreting Growth of Immigrant Populations
I would like to explain an effect that I think is responsible for a lot of misconceptions regarding immigration. If I am right, my explanation shows that some common explanations, while not being...
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