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A looming question and coming litmus test
Oren Cass and David Leonhardt ponder whether the left or the right are capable of embracing worker-friendly immigration policies.
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'How Much Nature Should America Keep?'
The continental U.S. lost 24 million acres of open space to development between 2001 and 2017. Immigration is driving population growth and continuing sprawl. How much nature should America keep? That's an important question, and one very few are asking.
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Now They Tell Us: Immigration a Hot Topic Post-Election
One of the head-scratchers about the 2020 presidential election is that immigration was almost absent from the race. Why did President Trump decide to largely ignore an issue that was so effective for him in 2016? Now that the dust has largely settled, immigration is now getting a good deal of attention from the political commentariat about what comes next.
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History of the Border Surge
Many of Biden's promises suggest he's ready to take us back to 2014. If the debate over legalization spurred the initial surge before the legal loopholes were well-known, what will happen now that the cat is out of the bag as far as how to game the system? I'm afraid we're going to find out.
Wouldn't it be something, though, if Biden shocked the world and charted a brand new course?
Wouldn't it be something, though, if Biden shocked the world and charted a brand new course?
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The surge is coming
Joseph Chamie, the former director of the United Nations Population Division says the migrant surge is coming, whether you like it or not. Will Biden address it like it's 2014, or will he succeed where his predecessors have failed?
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A Debate Worth Having
Short of industry titans suddenly deciding to put the interests of wage-earning Americans above the investment class, American workers have the right to appeal their government for an immigration policy that better serves their interests. But might there be something in there for industry as well? Micah Meadowcroft thinks so. A well-paid America, he argues, will be a more innovative America.
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NYTimes Open-borders columnist: The nation's most populated state isn't living sustainably
In his August 26 article, “California, We Can’t Go On Like This,” The New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo said that "the nation's most populous state" was also failing to live sustainably. Readers were quick to point out that Manjoo failed to make the connection between the two.
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Iago, Immigration, and the Cannibalization of the American Family
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 goes there on The Darkhorse Podcast from July 13, 2020.
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Joe Rogan leaves over-crowded California for more freedom in Texas
The Joe Rogan Experience has become wildly popular by digging into sensitive but essential issues that the establishment media and political elites will only touch with bromides and carefully calibrated talking points. Why not add immigration-driven population growth to the list?
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Fragmented wildlands threaten our resilience
Immigration-driven population growth is devouring natural habitat in the United States, threatening wildlife and biodiversity. This raises ethical questions about our responsibility towards our non-human neighbors and surroundings, but we also have a naked self-interest in arresting immigration-driven population growth in order for wildlife and biodiversity to thrive. Writing in The New York Times Magazine Ferris Jabr says we have altered the natural world to a point where zoonotic diseases can spread to humans more efficiently than ever.