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CEI Podcast for February 9, 2012: The Immigration Tariff
Have a listen here. Immigration law is second in complexity only to the income tax. In a new CEI paper, Policy Analyst Alex Nowrasteh proposes scrapping the whole thing and replacing it with a tariff....
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CEI Podcast for March 29, 2012: The History of American Immigration in Six...
Have a listen here. America’s first immigration law passed in 1790. A more-or-less open borders policy lasted until the 1920s, when immigration was severely restricted. Since then, policies have...
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CEI Podcast for May 10, 2012: Freeing Our Farms
Have a listen here. Immigration Policy Analyst David Bier explains how the Labor Department’s byzantine restrictions on immigrant agricultural workers hurt immigrants and native-born Americans alike....
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“America’s scorn for skills is extraordinary.”
The Economist aptly sums up America’s immigration policy. Don Boudreaux, on page 32 of his wonderful new book, writes that “Free societies build bridges, not walls.”As on so many issues, one is better...
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CEI Podcast for July 19, 2012: Congress Takes on High-Skilled Immigration Reform
Have a listen here. Congress will soon vote on a package of reforms for holders of the H-1B visa for high-skilled immigrants. Policy Analyst David Bier unpacks the proposed reforms, and explains why...
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CEI Podcast for October 11, 2012: More Americans
Have a listen here. Policy Analyst David Bier thinks the world could use more Americans. And an easy way make happen is through increasing legal immigration. America’s superior economic institutions...
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GOP Evolving on Immigration
The hardline stance that many Republicans hold on immigration policy has long struck me as immoral, not just economically harmful. High-skilled immigrants are the most entrepreneurial group in America....
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CEI Podcast for March 7, 2013: The Three-Sided Immigration Debate
Have a listen here. There are more combatants in the ongoing immigration debate than the usual progressives and conservatives. Immigration Policy Analyst David Bier recently wrote for USA Today about...
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CEI Podcast for May 8, 2013: The Debate Over Undocumented Immigration
Have a listen here. CEI Immigration Policy Analyst David Bier is critical of a new Heritage Foundation study that estimates that giving legal status to America’s undocumented immigrants would cost...
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Is This What Amnesty Looks Like?
You know a regulatory system is broken when this qualifies as liberalization: Click here if the embedded video doesn’t work.Filed under: Immigration
View ArticleBas van der Vossen and Jason Brennan – In Defense of Openness: Why Global...
Bas van der Vossen and Jason Brennan – In Defense of Openness: Why Global Freedom Is the Humane Solution to Global Poverty Argued from a philosopher’s point of view, though both authors are...
View ArticleTrump Threatens up to 25 Percent Tariff on Mexican Goods, Jeopardizes...
Things have been moving quickly on President Trump’s top legislative priority, the NAFTA/USMCA trade agreement. The key was rescinding steel and aluminum tariffs against Canada and Mexico. On...
View ArticleBryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith – Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of...
Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith – Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration A graphic novel about immigration policy, and a superbly done one at that. Caplan, a former professor of mine at...
View ArticleCarrie Gibson – El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
Carrie Gibson – El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America The history of North America from the British perspective is a fascinating story. But it’s been done a thousand times....
View ArticleKimberly Clausing – Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration,...
Kimberly Clausing – Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital This is a book that needed to be written. Progressives have long had a complicated relationship with trade...
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