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August 26, 2023

News from the world of English Language Learning

In Illinois, and Chicago in particular, along with various other declared "sanctuary states," there have...

August 21, 2019

What the heck is up with the “public charge” rule change?

Here's the story, repeated over and over again: Up until now, would-be permanent residents were...

August 13, 2019

The real cost of cheap chicken

So, look, I am going write this with virtually no effort to source my claims...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

What I think about birthright citizenship

Yeah, a more conventional blogpost title would be something like, "what you should think about...

August 2018

August 13, 2018

Immigration and loyalty and Rashida Tlaib

Here's an AP report in the Sunday Chicago Tribune: "Palestinian-American candidate is source of West...

August 11, 2018

Are you a public charge?

The White House is, reportedly, based on the usual anonymous sources, about to publish, via...

June 2018

June 21, 2018

The Sh**hole theory of immigration politics

If nothing else, the entire debate around "kids in cages" has made clear some attitudes...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

Has immigration been absolved of job-stealing, again?

Yes, I know, rhetorical questions generally have the answer, "no," and in this case, I'm...

February 13, 2018

From the twitter feed, #2, “legal Dreamers”

This is a very short item but something I came across the other day that...

February 05, 2018

The “Fantasy of Replacement”

A few paragraph from Saturday's Ross Douthat column in the Times, after describing the state...

February 04, 2018

Should we take in the Rohingya?

This is really just a question for open discussion, but consider that, when it comes...

February 03, 2018

Do we need immigrants?

In my twitter feed this morning: which got me to thinking about her claim, "robust...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

Will immigrants integrate, or not?

Here are two admittedly-broad characterizations. Immigration-skeptics worry that unskilled illegal (or even legal) immigrants will...

January 19, 2018

What would an immigration policy designed for the future look like?

"Robots will take away all of the unskilled jobs. In order to support a family,...

January 15, 2018

More on brain drains (because, yes, I’m a nerd)

So the other day I wrote about the "brain drain" and vaguer "ambition drain" issue...

January 12, 2018

Brain (and other) drains

The conventional wisdom on immigration from a place like El Salvador is clear: the country...

November 2017

November 03, 2017

Literacy matters for new citizens, too

Regular readers will know that my husband is German. As it happens, he's in the...

August 2017

August 05, 2017

Immigration, labor shortages, wage hikes, and “lazy Americans”

In immigration news lately (links selected for convenience rather than endorsement of any specific news

March 2017

March 21, 2017

American Culture, American Values, and Immigrants

Can we preserve American culture, and American values, with "other people's babies"? Representative Steven King...

March 02, 2017

Fact-checking Emma Lazarus

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” executive order: the good, the bad, and the ugly

So Trump's big "extreme vetting" executive order was signed yesterday, and I've been waiting for...

January 10, 2017

Working backwards on immigration, and a Cupich gripe

Today Cardinal Cupich had a piece in the op-ed section in the Chicago Tribune, titled...

September 2016

September 02, 2016

What’s the purpose of immigration?

that is, in the year 2016, why do we allow strangers into our country? Is...

June 2016

June 05, 2016

The “True Minimum Wage” = the Shadow Economy wage

So I checked my twitter feed this morning and saw a link to an article...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Remember the “blue card”? How times have changed!

That was a part of the failed 2006 immigration bill, helpfully summarized by Wikipedia, though...

January 11, 2016

From the library: Headscarves and Hymens; Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, by Mona Eltahawy

I picked this up of the New Book shelf yesterday and it's a short enough...

January 07, 2016

On Germany: I got nothin’ (well, not much, anyway, in terms of insights)

Germany has a problem. Turns out, the integration of 1 million + Muslim refugees is...

November 2015

November 03, 2015

Really, Rubio? (more on immigration)

When I wrote my post the other day suggesting that Rubio give a Big Policy...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

No surprise, I guess. . . the Senate GOP caves on immigration

On Cuba, after what was claimed to be intense negotiations, Obama announced as much liberalization...

February 08, 2015

I’ll go there: Is Jeb Bush racist?

Jeb Bush was the subject of a fair amount of criticism from conservatives (including me)...