Cato Panel on Federalizing America's Immigration System Featuring Reason's Shikha Dalmia

The immigration reform debate is increasingly polarized and has policymakers looking for new and innovative reform

options. One such option is state- or regionally managed guest-worker visa programs, in addition to federal visas. Under such a system, individual states could manage and experiment with different guest-worker visa systems designed to suit their particular economic circumstances.

Canada and Australia have regional visa programs that have worked well, aided economic growth, and slowed population decline. Their approaches could be adapted to the United States.

Reason Foundation Shikha Dalmia wrote about Canada's program here.

She'll join the panel featuring Brandon Fuller, Deputy Director and Research Scholar, NYU Stern Urbanization Project; Reihan Salam, columnist and National Review Institute policy fellow; and moderated by Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy Analyst, Cato Institute to discuss the potential economic, political, and legal issues that come with regionally managed visas.

Come one, come all at the Cato building at 1000 Massachusetts Avenue at noon. Please register here. Or, if you can't come, watch it live at www.cato.org/live

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Uh-oh.

[waffles]

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[Lord Humungus]

The immigrants stole the AM links!

[SugarFree]

Probably those filthy Irish. Dirty Papists.

[Restoras]

No way, they are still hung over from St. Patrick's Day revelry.

[SugarFree]

That's what made them so uppity as to steal the links.

Don't you know anything about the vast Irish criminal underclass?

[Mickey Rat]

I know they weird nicknames like "Nucky".

[John]

Unless you plan to also kill off the privileges and immunities clause, a federalized system of immigration would be anything but that. It would be immigration by the most permissive state. States wouldn't be allowed to experiment with different systems of work visas since the P&I clause would require them to recognize other states' VISAs.

[Fist of Etiquette]

What does this comment have to do with AM Links not being posted yet?

[John]

It was made at 9:04 when I still held out hope there would be AM links.

[Fist of Etiquette]

So, um, what's up with that Malaysian airplane anyway?

[SugarFree]

Lou Reed was on it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

You know he was against the Ground Zero Mosque, right?

[Gene]

He wanted a methadone clinic there I think.

[John]

I thought it was Abe Vagoda.

[SugarFree]

Vagoda can't die. If he was on every flight they would all be safe.

[John]

True.

[Gene]

Hmm, I think he ought to be "drafted" for that whole mission to Mars thing, seems like a prudent move.

[John]

Sounds like a plot to the next Star Trek film; Enterprise Crew goes to Mars to find a 300 year old ageless Abe Vagoda who holds the key to saving earth.

[SugarFree]

Yes. An alien probe threatens to destroy Earth unless it can speak to Fish.

[Rich]

I think it's been made into stainless steel bracelets.

[Lord Humungus]

cheap ones at that.

[Snark Plissken]

No plane, no MLs, coincidence?

[Rich]

"This ... is CNN!"

[Snark Plissken]

The network that makes you wish for black holes on Earth.

[Fist of Etiquette]

As 24/7 withered on the vine, could Links have been far behind?

[Snark Plissken]

I blame all you jerk commenters.

[Lord Humungus]

all

No Venn diagram there, eh?

[Snark Plissken]

Except Bo, he always is civil and on-topic.

[DJF]

"""""Canada and Australia have regional visa programs that have worked well, aided economic growth, and slowed population decline."""'

When did Canada, Australia or the US start having a population decline?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Quebec has one of the lowest birth rates in the Western world.

And...

Where are the AM links? Is there another U.S. holiday celebrating some ethnic minority or aggrieved group or person again?

[DJF]

Quebec does not count, they don't even consider themselves Canadian.

[Lord Humungus]

*sing* and they're not even a real country anyway

[Rufus J. Firefly]

But.

The BNA Act...

[Rufus J. Firefly]

60% of us still do.

Meh.

[John]

Isn't it 100% when it comes time to pick up the checks from Ottawa?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Well, the rest of us level-headed folks who understand this represent at least 20% of the population. So let's say it shoots up to 80%.

[John]

Where do you live in Quebec? For all of the slamming on Frenchmen and such, I love Quebec. I would live in Montreal in a heartbeat. I don't car if it is cold and nasty most of the year. The whole place is just beautiful and the food is great.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

I live in a suburb 20 minutes north of Montreal - Laval. Work in a town 10 minutes north of where I live.

Montreal has its moments.

It's only bad in Jan and Feb. December is just nice snow.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

It's constantly voted the 'hippest' city in North America according to some mag out of SF.

And the women here...second to none on the continent. Hot, hot, hot.

[Gene]

John it's full of pretentious hipsters.

Or so I gather I haven't been there in 30 years (grade five class trip/first experience with black hash).

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Gene, French-Canadians are anything but pretentious and Montreal is less so than what I've seen in NYC, Miami, SF and LA. Montreal has its pocket of hipster douches and left-wing hipsters but not sure it's any worse than those places.

Just. Saying.

[Snark Plissken]

I have trouble understanding you, could you post comments in both English and French? Mercy bo coup.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

If I wanted, in three languages.

[Gene]

Crux of the biscuit right there.

[Restoras]

Except when they get $$$ from Ottawa, I bet.

[Ted S.]

So the PQs will non-breed themselves out of existence. Problem solved! 😉

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Let's call it Lord Durham's Revenge.

http://faculty.marianopolis.ed.....durham.htm

Biggest miscalculation in Canadian history.

[Rich]

And in other news about useless crap:

Revolutionary new fork that adds own flavour to each mouthful is the latest foodie gadget to hit the market

[Restoras]

So I started a game of Third Reich this weekend. What the world really needs is and iPad version of the game. Fumbling around with little counters and my fat fingers is definately keeping me behind on an evolutionary scale.

[Snark Plissken]

Posting links? You just gave up, just like that? That's just what they want, you know.

[Ted S.]

Why does my food have a metallic taste?

[Lord Humungus]

it's the drugs fed to you by the Koch brothers.

[Ted S.]

Wait until they start making these forks out of compressed dung.

[Aloysious]

Not Smell-O-Vision. Do not want.

[Ted S.]

I'm waiting for the feelies.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

I guess this is the AM links by default?

/shakes fist.

[Rich]

Wait .... Aren't the AM links the equivalent of a full professor?

[Kaptious Kristen]

My brain doesn't start to work until I've had my morning coffee links.

[Kaptious Kristen]

Also I have my annual review today. How does one say they like their job but they hate their company with the burning heat of 1000 Big Bangs?

[Ted S.]

Learn to be a better liar?

[SugarFree]

You could drag your ass on the floor like a dog. That usually cuts through the clutter.

[Mickey Rat]

Be like a politician. If they ask you how you feel about the company, answer how you like your job rather than the question they asked.

[Mickey Rat]

"Canada and Australia have regional visa programs that have worked well, aided economic growth, and slowed population decline."

Wait, was not states making their own immigration policies a bad thing? I though that was the case when Arizona did.

[PM]

Yeah, I was going to point out the same thing. I remember a lot of pants shitting about federal supremacy wrt immigration when states wanted to get in on enforcing federal immigration law within their borders. Of course this being Shikha, a little intellectual dishonesty is par for the course.