A User’s Guide to the 2016 NAS Immigration Report
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has just published a major report on The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration. The National Academy panel that prepared the report consisted of about...
View ArticleI Say High, You Say Low…
The immediate reactions to the National Academy immigration report are in, and the media is having a field day. The reactions already range from mindless pablum lifted straight out of a press release...
View ArticleCharles Murray Changes His Mind on Low-Skill Immigration
This sounds like big news to me. I’ve always found libertarians to be the most unpersuadable people when it comes to immigration; their religious-like attachment to open borders seems totally...
View ArticleWe Wanted Workers is now available
My new book, We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative, was published today. In case you need a little encouragement to read it, here are a few reactions from early readers: Reihan Salam:...
View ArticleThe WSJ Reviews We Wanted Workers
The Wall Street Journal just published the first major review of my new book, We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative. The review presents a very interesting take on what the book is...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on the H-1B Program
Today’s Room for Debate section of the New York Times has a discussion about the increasingly important role that Silicon Valley plays in Washington politics. I contributed a short article arguing that...
View ArticleThe New Yorker on We Wanted Workers
The New Yorker just published a very thoughtful review of We Wanted Workers. This is how the review introduces one of my key themes. Instead of asking what we owe immigrants, he wants us to think more...
View ArticleTwo Immigrants Debate Immigration
Shikha Dalmia and I have a long exchange in the latest (December 2016) issue of Reason Magazine about the themes and findings in my new book, We Wanted Workers. The Reason editors entitled the exchange...
View ArticleAngus Deaton on Responsible Nationalism
The globalists have for far too long ignored that globalization, whether due to an increase in imports or an increase in immigration, has inevitably harmed some people in the industrialized countries....
View ArticleNational Review on We Wanted Workers
There’s a good review of We Wanted Workers in the print edition of National Review. This is my favorite part: However much you think you know about immigration, you’ll learn something from this book....
View ArticleWe Wanted Workers on C-SPAN
Edward Alden (of the Council of Foreign Relations) and I spent over an hour last month talking about We Wanted Workers. The conversation will air this Saturday, November 12, at 10 pm as part of the...
View ArticleSome Advice for President-Elect Trump
More than a few people have asked me in the past few days what advice, if any, I would give to President-elect Trump about immigration. Here are some more-or-less random thoughts that touch on a few of...
View ArticleSenator Sessions for Attorney General
It’s not often that I have much to say about these types of high-level government appointments. Typically, all I know is what I read in the papers. But this is one case where I do have some valuable...
View ArticleClaremont Review of Books on We Wanted Workers
Christopher Caldwell has a very thoughtful review of We Wanted Workers in the latest issue of the Claremont Review of Books. He raises so many interesting points that I am going to have to mull over...
View ArticleVignettes From A Communist Utopia
Fidel Castro died last night at age 90. My first reaction upon reading the news this morning was “Good riddance!” As I recount in We Wanted Workers, I have many not-so-wonderful memories of growing up...
View ArticleReason Magazine Exchange
The Reason Magazine exchange between Shikha Dalmia and I over We Wanted Workers is now online. I really enjoyed interacting with Shikha as we prepared the article over the summer. The finished product...
View ArticleCarrier And Comprehensive Immigration Reform
There’s been a lot of criticism from free-market types since President-elect Trump announced the Carrier deal, which will keep around 1,000 jobs in Ohio Indiana (see the Larry Summers take here). Some...
View ArticleBook Conversation at AEI
Steven Roberts and I had an interesting conversation about We Wanted Workers at the American Enterprise Institute on Friday. The talk covered many of the issues that dominate the immigration debate....
View ArticleWhere Did 2.5 Million Native Working Men Go?
I worked on the revision to my paper on the labor supply of immigrants earlier this month. I also played around with the data some, and was struck by the substantial rise in the number of prime-age...
View ArticleProfile in The American Conservative
Robert VerBruggen just wrote a very interesting, and quite insightful, overview of my work and We Wanted Workers for The American Conservative. I spoke to him just three days after the election, and...
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