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Federal Government Steps In to Contribute to Colorado River Crisis
The federal government has played a significant role in increasing the demand on the Colorado river that is now threatening a looming water shortage.
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Best of 2018: 10 Immigration Reads to Prepare for 2019
A core part of NumbersUSA's mission is to provide a civil forum to discuss a single policy issue: the numerical level of immigration. With that goal in mind, here are ten immigration reads from 2018 to put us in a thoughtful and productive frame of mind for the new year.
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'Unemployed For A Reason'? When should policy give up on sidelined workers?
In recent years, the New York Times has reliably reported the best arguments for immigration expansion and periodic legalizations, but its story this week may be the furthest the Gray Lady has gone toward presenting arguments in favor of perpetual illegal immigration.
The story, if taken seriously, has profound implications.
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Mid-Terms Media Roundup: The past year of immigration punditry
A memo from the Center for American Progress warns vulnerable Democrats to spend "as little time as possible" talking about immigration. Will open borders prove a bigger albatross than family separations? The last twelve months of immigration punditry provides some clues.
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Four Solutions to the Family Border Crisis
E-Verify is an obvious solution to the jobs magnet that Congress and the White House have declined to advance. Ending the catch-and-release policies that encourage illegal immigration is a bit more complicated.
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'I wrote so many ridiculous cases' - Tales from the asylum mills
NPR's Ailsa Chang has a wild story about a man who found his American dream writing fictional stories for asylum applicants. Years after being caught, he is in hiding from the FBI but sharing some of his best work with NPR over Skype.
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Reihan Salam sees an immigration system at odds with our egalitarian ideals
In his new book, Melting Pot Or Civil War, Reihan Salam makes several policy proposals, but his most significant contribution to our contentious immigration debate is to reject the binary thinking that poisons our national discourse.
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New York Times demonstrates chain migration and dismisses debate with a bogus bromide
The assumption that immigration policy must be either a threat to American workers or "a net positive to the country" is as false as it is ubiquitous. Not only can immigration generate a net economic surplus and leave workers worse off at the same time, but that's exactly what's happening under our current system.
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More H-1B visas are going to U.S. tech companies. That is bad news.
The tendency in the media to primarily blame foreign companies for using H-1B visas to displace American workers is inaccurate and harmful. Big U.S. tech firms that have histories of displacing American workers received significantly more H-1B visas In fiscal year 2017 than they did the year before.
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California Water Wars and the I Word
In California, the diminishing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is just one of many concerns. The Department of the Interior projects that by mid century, the Colorado River will no longer be able to support California and the six other states that rely on it for water. "The main reason," according to the San Francisco Chronicle's story, is California's "expected population growth from 40 million to as many as 76 million people."