By Jeremy Beck
Most Americans favor policies that improve their wages, their access to meaningful work, and their ability to own a home and keep their families together. An immigration policy with these goals in mind would help. But as David Leonhardt puts it in his newsletter, “the elite’s misunderstanding of popular opinion” leads (or misleads) politicians – … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Most Americans favor policies that improve their wages, their access to meaningful work, and their ability to own a home and keep their families together. An immigration policy with these goals in mind would help. But as David Leonhardt puts it in his newsletter, “the elite’s misunderstanding of popular opinion” leads (or misleads) politicians – … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Source: Gallup World Poll, 2015-2017 Former President Obama says “We’re a nation-state. We have borders. The idea that we can just have open borders is something that … as a practical matter, is unsustainable.” As it happens, 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development, whose recommendations after more than two … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Source: Gallup World Poll, 2015-2017 Former President Obama says “We’re a nation-state. We have borders. The idea that we can just have open borders is something that … as a practical matter, is unsustainable.” As it happens, 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development, whose recommendations after more than two … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Oren Cass, in what might be the perfect six-word challenge for policy makers heading into 2021 writes “Worker Power, Loose Borders: Pick One.” For all of us who have been frustrated for years by the media’s insistence that immigration policy stands outside the law of supply and demand, it is more than a little cathartic … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Gary Wockner chimes in: A report titled, “How Much Nature Should America Keep?” in 2019 by the Center for American Progress indicates that: The United States loses a football field of natural land every 30 seconds, The continental United States lost 24 million acres of natural land to development between 2001 and 2017, At this … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Brian Norris and Anita Kumar join the throng of political observers noting the palatable absence of immigration during the 2020 campaign: Immigration dominated the 2016 presidential campaign, but Joe Biden’s promise during the second debate to “within a hundred days … send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Lat week, we highlighted “Joseph Chamie’s warning”that another surge at the border is imminent. We don’t know how this latest one will play out — which depends largely on how the next administration handles it — but we can look back over the last decade to get a good idea of what we might expect. … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Joseph Chamie, the former director of the United Nations Population Division says the migrant surge is coming, whether you like it or not: With a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, mobility restrictions are expected to be gradually lifted and social and economic conditions worsening in most developing countries, including dwindling flows of remittances, a surge … Continued
