All Posts Tagged With: "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 | ContinuedNatural, Not National, Rights
Somewhere in my reading about immigration, someone made the deceptively simple point that it’s not immigrationwe should be talking about but migration. That’s another way of saying the focus has been on us, when it should be on the people coming to the United States. The discussion has proceeded as if they have no rights in the matter [...]
26Sep2011 | Sheldon Richman | 9 comments | ContinuedA Pen That Turns into a Sword
It’s a promotional giveaway pen, a rather nice one by BIC, white with red and blue writing that at first I found puzzling: MEN: Don’t lose benefits! Use this to register with Selective Service. Benefits from (or through, or with) Selective Service? When I turned 18 several years before the Vietnam era I registered for [...]
24Nov2010 | N. Joseph Potts | 5 comments | ContinuedIn Defense of the Huddled Masses
In April Arizona attracted national attention when it enacted a strict anti-immigration law, SB1070, which authorizes police having “lawful contact” with a person who arouses “reasonable suspicion” that he is an illegal alien to make a “reasonable attempt . . . to determine the immigration status of the person.” The law is intended to make [...]
25Aug2010 | Aeon J. Skoble | 21 comments | ContinuedSecure in Freedom
Language is indispensable to civilization. But because we rely on language so heavily—because it is our chief means of communicating with each other as well as a tool for forming and storing our thoughts—if used carelessly it can misshape our thoughts. Careless language (or, even worse, verbal legerdemain) often turns words or phrases with positive [...]
25Aug2010 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 14 comments | ContinuedBorder Control Bogey
As if we weren’t already aware, the current occupant of the White House yesterday proved himself every bit the social engineer his predecessors were.
2Jul2010 | Sheldon Richman | 50 comments | ContinuedYet Again with the National ID
Fresh from their defeat in forcing national identity papers on us with REAL ID, the feds are trying once more. Their plea this time isn’t terrorism but immigration—though they’re pretty much the same, according to the State. Introduced in 2005 to combat the waves of terrorists thronging our shores, REAL ID was supposed to thwart [...]
29Jun2010 | Becky Akers | 14 comments | ContinuedInterventionism, Immigration, and Nationalism
I was born and raised in Arizona, so I’ve been following with particular interest that state’s recently passed immigration legislation as well as the ensuing public uproar.
4May2010 | Sandy Ikeda | 25 comments | ContinuedImmigration, the Tea Parties, and Big Government
The Arizona law enabling police to ask for immigration papers or proof of citizenship of anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally has fanned the flames of an already hot debate over immigration.
29Apr2010 | Steven Horwitz | 62 comments | ContinuedArizona Descends Another Rung
Just in from the New York Times: “Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed a bill that would require the police to ask people about their immigration status if officers have any reason to suspect that they are in the country illegally.”
23Apr2010 | Sheldon Richman | 5 comments | ContinuedLiberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
The election of Barack Obama in 2008 led to a gusher of books in 2009 by writers opposed to the new President’s philosophy and agenda. If you judge by sales figures, one of the most successful of those books was Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation and a nationally syndicated [...]
20Apr2010 | George C. Leef | 3 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 | ContinuedOpening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Law
In recent years there have been numerous highly publicized federal raids against companies that had violated the law by employing illegal aliens. The hapless people were deported and the companies slapped with stiff penalties. Generally, the reaction has been, “Well, it’s about time the government got tough!” For the most part, the strident voices of [...]
22Jan2009 | George C. Leef | 3 comments | ContinuedMigration, Markets, and Governments
One of the hottest political topics today on both sides of the Atlantic is immigration. What, though, do we mean by this and what light does history cast on our present concerns and anxieties? Migration, the movement and resettlement of people, is one of the universals of history. In some periods it happens on a [...]
1Apr2008 | Stephen Davies | 0 comments | ContinuedA Matter of Priorities
‘Tis the political season, which means the season to bash immigrants. This goes especially for so-called “illegal aliens,” that is, residents without government papers. (As if that’s a big deal.) Candidates and others who are set on securing the Mexican border—the Canadian border seems of less concern—and expelling those who had the audacity to come [...]
1Jan2008 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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