Philippe Legrain, who despite his first name is apparently British not French, is an economist/journalist who offers a perspective on immigration that you don’t hear lately. The case against immigration in the US is based on fear, and racisim/xenophobia, covered in a veneer of economic half-truths. Legrain spent six months researching immigration policies, and his […]
Colorado, home to the nation’s toughest anti-immigrant law is finding that enforcing the law has cost more than $2 million and resulted in no savings. Who would have thought such a law wasn’t the brightest idea? Not the politicians running up to an election who need to show the voters that they’re "doing something" about
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Over at Hit & Run, they’re linking to the news that Golden State Fence, the company hired to build the fence on our border with Mexica, has pled guilty to hiring illegal immigrants. The IHT has a slightly longer story. I wonder if stories like the following amuse or depress the Onion’s writers. Federal immigration
Latino assimilate quite well into American society, more so than the anti-immigration conservative right would have you believe. Tyler Cowen and Daniel M. Rothschild have a data-packed column in the Washington Post looking at this issue. Throughout the article, I couldn’t help but pick parts where I felt like they were writing about me. Most
I followed through and created the t-shirt, you can get yourselft one at my zazzle store. This is the “Original Illegal Immigrants” t-shirt.