By Andrew Good
Last week, one of The New York Times‘ conservative columnists, Bret Stephens, and one of their liberal columnists, Gail Collins, published a back-and-forth on their view of some of the currently hot political issues. Not surprisingly, they started with the migrant crisis. The week before that, one of The Washington Post‘s conservative columnists, Marc Thiessen, … Continued
By Andrew Good
Last week, Chris Chmielenski, Wyatt (one of our nearby volunteers), and I went out to Indianapolis for the National Conference of State Legislatures’ 2023 Legislative Summit. As part of NumbersUSA’s expanding push on states to take action to combat the huge increase in illegal immigration, our exhibit centered on E-Verify. E-Verify is the free online … Continued
By Andrew Good
As some of you have already seen, the aggressive misinformation about E-Verify started in Florida before Governor DeSantis even signed the bill into law (which he did on May 10th): The most prominent clickbait story about the bill out of the gate was a semi-viral May 7th video about construction “stopping” at sites in Miami, … Continued
By Andrew Good
We know that – even before the ongoing border crisis – our high immigration levels transfer nearly half-a-TRILLION dollars from workers to employers. We can see that high immigration numbers don’t deliver the productivity outcomes advocates promise. No matter. President Biden last week announced yet another lawless step to greenlight additional masses of foreign nationals … Continued
By Andrew Good
Governor Polis Puts YIMBY-shaded Lipstick on Mass Immigration Pig As has become increasingly noticeable, politicians who support ending local control of zoning restrictions also tend to support mass immigration through unspecified or insincere limits. So those who go to bat for landlords, developers, and real estate speculators also tend to aggressively push demands for importing … Continued
By Andrew Good
Have you ever noticed that politicians who support ending local control of zoning restrictions (“YIMBYs”) also tend to support mass immigration through unspecified or insincere limits? So those who go to bat for landlords, developers, and real estate speculators instead of prioritizing neighborhoods and county planners also don’t say ‘no’ to business lobbyist demands for … Continued
By Andrew Good
The growing case that immigration-fueled housing prices are driving inflation. As former Clinton staffer and writer William A. Galston wrote for the liberal Brookings Institute website last month, inflation is “President Biden’s biggest political problem.” Around that same time, I saw an interesting Tweet from Roosevelt Institute scholar Mike Konczal breaking down different aspects of … Continued
By Andrew Good
Amid border happenings, sanctuary policies outrages, and declarations that New York City is “full” of migrants, the underlying truth about the immigration battle is that it is fundamentally between those with an insatiable appetite for more foreign workers, and those who embrace the social good of tight labor markets. The economic question has the deepest … Continued
By Andrew Good
It has long been obvious that we need to turn off the jobs magnet, but with 1.2 million “known gotaways” over our porous border during the Biden administration, it’s more urgent than ever that E-Verify requirements be implemented for all employers. In The Washington Post, Henry Olsen made a wonderful case that one of Florida … Continued
