In the Fed’s recent examination of the differential recovery in the US as compared to the Euro area, UK and Canada, I was surprised that immigration did not make a bigger appearance, given my views.
Category Archives: immigration
Southwest Border Encounters, thru April
The title at Zerohedge screams “Illegals Believe Trump Is Going To Win So They’re Surging The Border Now”. I looked for data, but found none, so I checked CBP:
Immigration 2021-23: Supply and Demand Shock
Or, why has the US done so well. Part of it’s immigration. From Goldman Sachs “Upgrading Our GDP and Payrolls Forecasts to Reflect Elevated Immigration (Walker)” released yesterday:
Some Reactions to the Employment Situation Release for January
Here’s FoxBusiness’s web coverage of the employment release (around 4pm CT):
Guest Contribution: “International Factor Payments and the Pandemic”
Today we are fortunate to have as a guest contributor Joseph Joyce, Professor of Economics and M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations at Wellesley College.
Born in the U.S.A.
Today, Mr. Trump tweeted about four congresspersons of color:
….viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back…
“Seattle’s Chinese American veterans to receive long overdue honor from U.S.”
I saw this Seattle Times article while visiting my hometown, and it struck me as relevant, as the Trump administration is now deporting veterans, willy nilly. From the article.
When the [Second World] war began, the United States government had not yet repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the nation’s first immigration ban on a specific ethnic group. The law severely limited Chinese immigrants from entering the country and becoming naturalized citizens for more than 60 years, until the end of 1943.
This meant that while up to 20,000 Chinese Americans served in the military during World War II, about 40% were not even granted citizenship, according to the Chinese-American World War II Veteran Congressional Gold Medal Act.
Why We Are Letting Children Die In, and Building Bigger, Detention Camps
…as well as threatening an all out trade war with Mexico. It’s purportedly to deal with the “migration crisis” on our Southern border. The “crisis” is illustrated below.
Source: Gzeromedia.
Update, 9:45PM Pacific: Several commenters have called for a wall. I suspect they would prefer machine gun posts, a few dozen tanks each mile, some antipersonnel mine fields, and a “shoot-to-kill” order from Trump to accompany the wall.
Here is some reasoned analysis of the southern Wall, from EconoFact.
Should the United States Build a Wall on the Mexican Border to Reduce Unauthorized Immigration?
Who Could’ve Known “Crash Brexit” Would Be Problematic?
In the aftermath of the Salzburg summit, where the Chequers plan was dismissed by the EU, and PM May demanded “respect”, the pound has plunged.
Mr. Trump’s Separation Policy and a Little Bit of History
In America, have we ever by policy rather than by law separated family members, including children, from other family members, while awaiting processing? The answer is yes, and we don’t need to go too far back in history.