open immigration Concepts

The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent

by Vivek Wadhwa · 1 Oct 2012 · 103pp · 24,033 words

-1Bs and green cards would further reduce the level of science and engineering talent in the United States. To summarize, the advocates of a more open immigration policy feel the H-1B program limits the entry of global talent into the United States and should be significantly expanded. Detractors of the H

One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger

by Matthew Yglesias · 14 Sep 2020

(or to be blunt, racial) fears seem to drive much of immigration politics, it might be interesting to explore the idea of fairly free and open immigration from Canada, Australia, the Anglophone Caribbean, America’s NATO allies, or some other subset of countries that seems popular. Several years ago I was involved

Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders

by Jason L. Riley · 14 May 2008 · 196pp · 53,627 words

two general themes. The first is that, contrary to received wisdom, today’s Latino immigrants aren’t “different,” just newer. The second is that an open immigration policy is compatible with free-market conservatism and homeland security. I explain, from a conservative perspective, why the pessimists who say otherwise are mistaken. I

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costs. It does have costs, particularly in border regions and states with generous public benefits. But when those costs are properly weighed against the gains, open immigration and liberal trade policies still make more sense than protectionism, from both a security and an economic standpoint. The United States needs to better regulate

Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats

by Maya Goodfellow · 5 Nov 2019 · 273pp · 83,802 words

aid … because there were a lot of asylum claims at that time the government was really throwing money at solicitors’ firms to get them to open immigration departments … to get solicitors trained up in immigration law so they could take on all these asylum claims,’ former immigration barrister Frances Webber remembers. The

"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths About Immigration

by Aviva Chomsky · 23 Apr 2018 · 219pp · 62,816 words

citizenship and naturalization to white people. Nonwhites, however, were denied both entry and citizenship. Through a complex process of omission and commission, the law dictated open immigration for white people and restricted immigration for people of color. Immigration and naturalization law created, in the words of Aristide Zolberg, “a nation by design

Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy

by David Frum · 25 May 2020 · 319pp · 75,257 words

them and benefit others. That fear originates in America’s history of racial subordination. It is sustained by the widely shared and angry perception that open immigration redirects American health-care dollars to newcomers, legal and illegal. Those fears are often dismissed as irrational, but they contain large elements of truth. Of

The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

by Paul Morland · 10 Jan 2019 · 405pp · 121,999 words

6% of the population, of which around 60% were Mexicans, the next largest group being Puerto Ricans (15%) and Cubans (12%). The latter were given open immigration rights as part of the government’s anti-Castro policy.30 Growth continued well into the twenty-first century. According to the 2010 census, Hispanics

The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy's Only Hope

by John A. Allison · 20 Sep 2012 · 348pp · 99,383 words

the United States, and even then, only under a temporary “H-1B” visa. Unfortunately, because of our social welfare systems, we cannot afford to have open immigration to the United States. Many people would immigrate not to work, but to get the “free lunch” that our welfare system provides. The answer is

Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System

by Colin Yeo; · 15 Feb 2020 · 393pp · 102,801 words

a voucher scheme for skilled workers was expected to maintain access to the United Kingdom for Old Commonwealth citizens. Britain went from having an extremely open immigration regime to an extremely closed one almost overnight, at least for racialised groups, and has been described as operating a ‘zero immigration’ policy for the

How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

by Fredrik Deboer · 4 Sep 2023 · 211pp · 78,547 words

is now, and to where we want to take them, at all times. We can’t give up on core goals—like a dramatically more open immigration policy—simply because those goals are currently unpopular. But since violence is always a tactic and never an end itself, the popularity of political violence