Best of 2020: Immigration Reads You May Have Missed

As the curtain closes on 2020, the NumbersUSA staff who work as part of the Media Standards Project have each pulled together a list of 10 noteworthy media items* from the year that advanced a healthy, civil, productive conversation on immigration-related issues.

These pundits and reporters provided their consumers with high-quality commentary and information, allowing the space to explore nuances, trade-offs, and policy prescriptions with intellectual integrity.

It is an encouraging fact that there were a number of pieces and writers we considered writers who didn’t make any of our lists, but also had worthy cases.

Without further ado, I present our exemplars of 2020:

*Our lists pair with our colleague Lisa Venus’ more-extensive counterpart blog, which you can read here.

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• Worker Power, Loose Borders: Pick One; by Oren Cass; American Commons (December 16)
• The New Class War; by Michael Lind; Penguin Random House (January 21)
• They’re Not Listening; by Ryan Girdusky & Harlan Hill; Simon & Schuster (June 16)
• US: Don’t obsess about population size; by Lex Rieffel; the Globalist (February 11)
• @esaagar Immigration Twitter; by Saagar Enjeti; Twitter (2020); (Bonus Video: Saagar and Krystal debate Bernie’s immigration policy; The Hill, January 31)
• Losing Control; by Jerry Kammer; Center for Immigration Studies (June 25)
• How to Paralyze the Immigration System in One Ill-Conceived Step; by Fred Bauer, National Review (December 14)
• Whatever Happened to Immigration?; by Matthew Continetti; The Washington Free Beacon (October 9)
• Trump’s order banning immigration puts Democrats in a bind; by Henry Olsen; The Washington Post (June 23)
• Democrats’ troubling adventure in a ‘Wonderland’ without ‘rule of law’; by Nolan Rappaport; The Hill (September 23)

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• Where Do Republicans Go From Here?; by David Brooks, The New York Times (August 7)
• Labor For The Future; by Micah Meadowcroft; American Compass (September 14)
• Trump’s gains in Texas and Florida don’t tell the full Latino story; by Laura Barrón-López, Sabrina Rodriguez, and Renuka Rayasam; Politico (November 6)
• Saving Democracy From the Managerial Elite; by Michael Lind; The Wall Street Journal (January 10)
• How Trump Grew His Support Among Latinos; by Geraldo Cadava; The Atlantic (November 9)
• Woke Inc.; by Michael Lind; Tablet Magazine (August 11)
• 2nd Amendment Sanctuaries Are Acts of Faithlessness in Government; by the Editorial Board; Los Angeles Times (January 19)
• The Return of Class Conflict; by Samuel Hammond; National Review (February 6)
• How to Revive Family, Community, and Other Resources of Liberty; by Fred Bauer; National Review (October 12)
• The Simple Reason the Left Won’t Stop Losing; by David Leonhardt; The New York Times (March 8)

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• Nation’s immigration issues are more than just numbers; by Brian Norris; The Post and Courier (November 15)
• Whatever Happened to Immigration?; by Matthew Continetti; The Washington Free Beacon (October 9)
• How to Fix America’s Broken Guest-Worker System; by Timothy Noah; The Soapbox (June 24)
• If Black Lives Really Matter, End H1-B Visa Giveaways; by Jessica Vaughan; Inside Sources (June 29)
• DeSantis’ E-Verify proposal helps Florida workers, deprives big corporations of cheap illegal labor; by David Caulkett; The Sun Sentinel (January 29)
• I’m a Liberal Who Thinks Immigration Must be Restricted; by Jerry Kammer; The New York Times (January 16)
• Why prevailing wage reform matters for H-1B visas; by Nolan Rappaport; The Hill (October 12)
• Woke Inc.; by Michael Lind; Tablet Magazine (August 11)
• The Cascading Complexity Of Diversity; by Andrew Sullivan; The Weekly Dish (August 7)
• How Trump Grew His Support Among Latinos; by Geraldo Cadava; The Atlantic (November 9)

ANDREW GOOD is the Director of the Media Standards Program for NumbersUSA