Much of the country’s attention for several months has been focused on the disproportionate joblessness, low incomes, poverty and overall economic inequality that beset Black Americans. Lots of politicians are attempting to at least sound like they want to do something. But very few seem to realize that tight-labor conditions during that time helped all … Continued

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Pres. Trump named Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As a federal judge, Barrett has ruled on a couple immigration-related cases. The Supreme Court’s role on immigration has intensified due to significant changes made to immigration policy through executive action by former Pres. Obama and now … Continued

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Today, I want to introduce you to nine Members of this two-year Congress who have achieved our top distinction in challenging the status quo of immigration policies that drive down wages and increase the non-employment of American workers. American workers and their families have been served well by dozens of Members who have done a … Continued

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Podcaster and Vox newsplainer Matthew Yglesias has a book out today entitled One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger. An excerpt from the book appeared on the Intelligencer website of New York magazine (published by Vox Media) on August 31. Yglesias also did a podcast with Tyler Cowen on September 9. Both are very … Continued

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Much of the country’s attention this summer has been focused on the disproportionate joblessness, low incomes, poverty and overall economic inequality that besets Black Americans. Lots of politicians are attempting to at least sound like they want to do something. But very few seem to realize that tight-labor conditions during that time helped all Americans … Continued

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Yesterday, The Associated Press published yet another immigration story with the business lobbyist-preferred “worker shortage” frame for their coverage: “Ahead of Kentucky Derby, worker shortage looms for trainers” (headline by ABC News). As usual, the narrative being serviced is that the American carnage we need to fear is that which results from any lack or … Continued

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The Democratic Party approved its Party Platform during its national convention this week, and while some Democrats complained that it didn’t go far enough in embracing a more open-borders agenda, there’s not much to like for supporters of reduced immigration. THE BAD – Increased legal immigration, mass amnesty, and less enforcement One line on the … Continued

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Discussions on class divisions often center on the highly disproportionate wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few. Analysts use a myriad of terms to define this group. For author Michael Lind the term is the “managerial elite,” who he describes in his latest book The New Class War published this past January. … Continued

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“Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,All, all, cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak” –Othello, Vii It’s not the current fashion to acknowledge that the post-1965 wave of immigration has had lasting and deleterious effects on Black Americans, but John Wood, Jr. of Braver Angels (@johnwoodjr) goes there on The Darkhorse Podcast from July 13, 2020, “Black … Continued

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