All Posts Tagged With: "illegal immigration"
Tough on Immigration Is Tough on Economic Growth
Not to be outdone by Arizona’s tough immigration law of 2010, Alabama and Georgia legislators passed their own immigration bills in 2011. The bills received a great deal of media attention because they were widely touted as good for growth and job creation, and were harsher on illegal immigrants than Arizona’s law. In a New [...]
4Jan2012 | Scott Beaulier | 21 comments | ContinuedMr. Obama, Tear Down This Wall!
All of us should worry, if not panic, when we remember that the walls keeping others out also keep us in.
21May2009 | Becky Akers | 69 comments | ContinuedThe New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal
In his new book Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies argues that immigration may have been good for America a century ago but not today—not because the immigrants have changed but because our nation has changed. That’s an interesting thesis, but as the book unfolds, the arguments sound more and more familiar. Krikorian [...]
2Apr2009 | Daniel Griswold | 0 comments | ContinuedImmigration Control, Circa AD 175
Last January the Wall Street Journal reported on the aftermath of federal agents’ success in rounding up Hiics on charges of immigration violation. The Georgia company where these“illegals” had been employed sought to obtain replacements by paying higher wages and offering free transportation. It was soon involved in a series of legal challenges that a [...]
1Dec2007 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedYou’ve Got Mail and Now We Have It Too
Adam Young is studying computer science in Ontario, Canada. On March 2 it was revealed that for years the government of Canada has been randomly opening the incoming mail of Canadian citizens and copying the contents into a central database—all in the name of fighting illegal immigration. At Canada Post facilities all across the country, [...]
1Aug2001 | Adam Young | 0 comments | Continued-
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