NEW YORK -- Watching the struggle over funding for a border wall, I am struck by the way in which, in one sense, Donald Trump has already achieved success. He has been able to conjure up a crisis out of thin air, elevate this manufactured emergency to national attention, paralyze...
A Primer on the Economic Benefits of Immigration
President Trump ascended to the American presidency on campaign promises that focused on stopping illegal immigration. Like his two immediate predecessors, Barack Obama and George W. Bush, he adopted hard-line immigration policies. It just so happens that Trump’s immigration policies are far more encroaching on migration. Arguments have been made...
U.S. Following Familiar Path to War with Iran
The Cato Institute's Christopher Preble sees troubling similarities between warnings about threats posed to America's interests by Iran and the build-up leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Writing for The National Interest, Preble points to the efforts by top U.S. officials to make the case for war while relying on information and...
Debunking Trump's Myths About Chain Migration & Low-Skilled Immigrants
President Donald Trump has embraced the rhetoric of “chain migration” to spread the message that the United States is legally letting in too many of the wrong kind of immigrant. That term, however, distorts the facts. As a scholar on U.S. immigration law and policy, I’d like to correct and...
Debunking Trump's Myths About Chain Migration & Low-Skilled Immigrants
President Donald Trump has embraced the rhetoric of “chain migration” to spread the message that the United States is legally letting in too many of the wrong kind of immigrant. That term, however, distorts the facts. As a scholar on U.S. immigration law and policy, I’d like to correct and...
Cato Institute: GOP House Immigration Proposal Is an Economic Disaster
The conservative Cato Institute doesn't mince words about the economic harm that the Securing America’s Future Act (H.R. 4760) would inflict on the United States. Key House Republicans, with the support of the White House, introduced the act as their solution to the immigration impasse in Congress. But the bill...
Cato Institute: GOP House Immigration Proposal Is an Economic Disaster
The conservative Cato Institute doesn't mince words about the economic harm that the Securing America’s Future Act (H.R. 4760) would inflict on the United States. Key House Republicans, with the support of the White House, introduced the act as their solution to the immigration impasse in Congress. But the bill...