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• Noah Smith Korrent 9 Sept Immigration strengthens America culturally, not only economically. immigration strengthens America CULTURALLY, not just economically
• Elon Musk Korrent 14 Sept A welfare state combined with free immigration will bankrupt any country. A welfare state and free immigration will obviously bankrupt any country.
• Noah Smith Korrent 9 Sept The purpose of immigration is to benefit the people who already live in the receiving country. A third principle that liberals should embrace is that the purpose of immigration is to benefit the people who already live in the country that is receiving the immigrants. Immigration to America must be for the benefit…
• Pieter Levels Site 15 Sept We should use this kind of data to completely turn around Europe's immigration policy
• Noah Smith Korrent 9 Sept If America gives up immigration, it will lose one of the key things that has made it great. But speaking only for my own country, I believe that if America gives up immigration, it will lose one of the key things that has made it great.
• Noah Smith Newsletter 9 Sept Liberalism needs a new philosophy of immigration
• Razib Khan Newsletter 17 Jul Daniel Di Martino: a Latino immigrant on immigration (and Venezuela)
• Noah Smith x.com 19 Sept I love how Asian American culture has so thoroughly recreated the idea of the "nebbish" from 100 years ago. Truly, American immigration is just a cycle that repeats.
• David Heinemeier Hansson Korrent 26 Aug A country benefits from immigration in proportion to whether the people arriving are net contributors who assimilate. Immigration depends greatly on who immigrates. And a country benefits when the people who immigrate are net contributors to the society, and in most cases, that they assimilate with the local culture.
• Chamath Palihapitiya Podcast 13 Aug Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats
• Pieter Levels Korrent 15 Sept Basing European immigration on recent immigrant crime rates by country of origin is common sense and would make Europe much safer. I think this is the most common sense policy and it'll make Europe much safer
• Pieter Levels Korrent 15 Sept Europe should ease immigration from countries whose prior immigrants have low crime rates and largely ban inflow from countries with high rates, with yearly data adjustments. I think we should use this kinds of data to completely turn around Europe's immigration policy: - We should have super easy inflow for immigrants from countries whose previous immigrants have shown low crime rates…
• Andrew Gelman Blog 19 Sept The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
• Radley Balko Newsletter 9 Aug Roundup: Chris Duncan, reader response to suing Stephen Miller, our ongoing immigration nightmare
• David Heinemeier Hansson Korrent 26 Aug Countries have a right to set their own immigration policy, and the assumption that people can be moved between countries with no consequence is empirically false. Countries and peoples have a right to set an immigration policy, and this notion that we shouldn't have any borders or, or even worse than that, it's all just a blank slate, that all peoples are just the same, and we…
• Casey Handmer Blog 10 Jun How to build a crazy awesome Australian immigration system
• Derek Thompson Newsletter 3 Jul America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are
• Simon Johnson x.com 9 Mar New podcast with Gary Gensler. Episode One: Immigration
• Tyler Cowen Recommends 4 Jan Why Immigration Policy is Hard and How to Make it Better — Alan Manning Alan Manning, Why Immigration Policy is Hard and How to Make it Better is a thoughtful and balanced look at its topic, recommended.
• Tyler Cowen Read 22 Jun Democratic Drain: Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy — Justin Gest Justin Gest, Democratic Drain: Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy is a political economy argument that widespread immigration can drain home countries of their democracy supporters to some extent.
• Lyman Stone Korrent 14 Oct 2025 Immigration is irrelevant to the real problem low fertility creates, because that problem is people having fewer children than they wanted. immigration is mathematically irrelevant to the central policy problem of low fertility
• Radley Balko Newsletter 18 Mar Immigration questions for Markwayne Mullin
• Alice Evans Korrent 1 Dec 2024 Where women's economic rise is too mild to resent, the far right turns its grievance politics onto immigration instead. Since women did not pose an economic threat, far-right politicians have instead galvanised society-wide opposition to immigration.
• Radley Balko Newsletter 16 Feb The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiation
• Lant Pritchett Korrent 29 Nov 2023 Anti-immigration parties gain ground by generating fear, not by winning the argument about what immigration does. The thing about the far-right parties is that they are trying to get people to equate all foreigners in a country with a threat to our future, but they are only gaining ground because of their ability to generate fear.
• Dan Wang x.com 25 Sept 2025 Yes, because technology is ultimately people and teams. The U.S. should hold on to talent rather than drive engineers out through immigration raids
• Radley Balko Newsletter 8 Apr You can't hide your lying ICE: The harassment of Francisco Longoria
• Scott Greenfield Korrent 29 Jun Ending a temporary immigration status overnight, after people have built lives in reliance on it, does real harm to them and to their communities. To shout “temporary” and pull the plug essentially overnight after immigrants have relied on the government’s representations that they should put their efforts and future into establishing a life in the United States…
• Lant Pritchett Korrent 29 Nov 2023 Public hostility to immigration comes from fusing “who may work here” with “who becomes one of us”, and separating the two dissolves it. When you separate those two questions in public dialogue, the negative attitudes disappear.
• Brad Feld Recommends 17 Jul 2023 Unshackled: A Practical Guide For Highly-Skilled Immigrants To Thrive In The United States — Soundarya Basubramani and Sameer Khedekar breaks down how legal immigration works in America in a way that is friendly, accessible, and human
• John Cochrane Korrent 18 Sept 2025 High electricity prices are what is killing European industrial competitiveness. The average European and UK voter, once he or she moves on from immigration, will notice how Europe and the UK have made energy unaffordable, stopped its growth-exactly as degrowthers wish-and deindustrialized, on the…
• Alice Evans Korrent 1 Nov 2024 Immigration cannot hold a rich country's working-age population steady, because doing so would require it to become 40 to 50 per cent foreign-born. For rich countries to maintain their working-age population ratios in 2050 through permanent migration (where each worker brings one dependent), Lant Pritchett estimates they would need to become 40-50% foreign-born.
• Lant Pritchett Korrent 29 Nov 2023 Immigration policy should run on three separate tracks: future citizens, people allowed to work, and people admitted out of necessity. Governments should create three tracks for people who come to live in their country. One track is that of people who hope to become Spanish. Another is that of those who we are going to allow to live and work here; the…
• Jennifer Burns Korrent 19 Jan 2025 The return of inflation is what made Donald Trump's second presidency possible, and therefore what makes everything that presidency changes possible. …that may change our foreign policy profoundly, that may change our immigration policy, that may change the demographics of our country, all of that, and my thesis is that that's all been made possible by…