Immigration is the fourth most important issue facing the country, according to a recent survey of 1,500 U.S. adults conducted by The Economist and YouGov. Respondents ranked only healthcare, the economy, and climate change as more pressing issues. With an ongoing border crisis that’s now entering its eighth month, immigration ranking fourth may not sound … Continued

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Immigration is the fourth most important issue facing the country, according to a recent survey of 1,500 U.S. adults conducted by The Economist and YouGov. Respondents ranked only healthcare, the economy, and climate change as more pressing issues. With an ongoing border crisis that’s now entering its eighth month, immigration ranking fourth may not sound … Continued

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Pundits advocating for increased immigration to the U.S. can find themselves at odds with their long-held policy commitments. Dissonance often arises when they sound the alarm about issues such as growing inequality or natural resource conservation while arguing for more U.S. immigration-driven population growth. In separate opinion pieces written this year, The New York Times … Continued

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Pundits advocating for increased immigration to the U.S. can find themselves at odds with their long-held policy commitments. Dissonance often arises when they sound the alarm about issues such as growing inequality or natural resource conservation while arguing for more U.S. immigration-driven population growth. In separate opinion pieces written this year, The New York Times … Continued

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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