The Best of Reason: The Afghan Allies Left Behind in the Graveyard of Empires
Thousands of people who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan are still looking for an escape.
Thousands of people who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan are still looking for an escape.
Thousands of people who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan are still looking for an escape.
My Name is Loh Kiwan dramatizes the experiences of refugees escaping oppressive regimes.
New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.
Reason has obtained an exclusive copy of Henry Kissinger's immigration files from the 1940s.
Reason immigration writer Fiona Harrigan surveys the growth of private migrant sponsorship programs. They have had impressive successes, but still suffer from unfortunte limitations.
New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.
It's a step in the right direction. But a better solution would be for Congress to allow them to stay permanently.
It's the right thing to do. But Western and Arab nations should also open doors to those currently trapped in Gaza.
When government relief efforts fail, individuals step up.
Letting those who want to do so leave and flee abroad is both a moral imperative, and a way to help Israel defeat Hamas faster, and with less harm to innocent people.
Plus: IDF releases footage from Hamas' evil rampage, cancel culture in Los Angeles, Iceland's ladies go on strike, and more...
Plus: A listener asks the editors about mandatory maternity leave.
If multimillionaire José Alvarado can't figure out how to get his family here, what hope do other Venezuelan migrants have?
DeSantis says that all Gazans are anti-Semitic, while Haley feels that refugees should only go to "Hamas-sympathetic countries."
Admitting students to America as refugees provides resettlement in America, overcoming the need for an F-1 visa and the challenge of travel documents.
The policy is simultaneously unjust and at odds with other administration policies on Venezuelan migration.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to name America's unsung or undersung heroes.
This measure will enable Ukrainians in the US to live and work here legally until April 19, 2025. It's a step in the right direction, but Congress still needs to pass an adjustment act giving them permanent residency.
Congress should grant permanent residency to Afghans who came to the US fleeing the fall of their country to the brutal Taliban regime.
The program extends the successful Uniting for Ukraine policy to migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti.
Plus: Digital rights groups protest "bad internet bills," the FTC might be readying another lawsuit against Amazon, and more...
Taking this step would benefit both the migrants themselves and the American economy. It would also eliminate burdens on local governments.
Participants included Prof. Adam Cox (NYU), David Bier (Cato), Kit Taintor (Welcome.US), and myself.
The definition excludes a vast range of people fleeing horrific violence and oppression.
Participants include Prof. Adam Cox (NYU), David Bier (Cato), Kit Taintor (Welcome.US), and myself.
A new study by the conservative Manhattan Institute concludes that the expansion of private sponsorship parole to migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela has reduced illegal migration across the southern border by about 98,000 per month.
Plus: A listener asks if the Roundtable has given the arguments of those opposed to low-skilled immigration a fair hearing.
Plus: A listener question concerning the key to a libertarian future—should we reshape current systems or rely upon technological exits like bitcoin and encryption?
Plus: Schools suing social media companies, a bitcoin mining tax is a bad idea, and more...
Title 42 expulsions caused great harm for very little benefit. Biden plans to replace them with a combination of policies, some good and some very bad.
The policy will protect thousands of Afghan refugees against imminent prospect of deportation. Same should be done for Ukrainians and others admitted to US using the parole power. But a permanent solution to this problem requires Congress to pass an adjustment act.
It has been reprinted (with permission) by the Cato Institute.
This can easily be accomplished by Congess enacting an adjustment act.
It's an impressive achievement. But we can do much more. Canada's much greater openness to immigration is an indication of what's possible.
More immigration from China would both hobble a geopolitical rival and make America richer and better.
What we did for Ukrainians, we could do for other migrants too.
It's less bad than Trump-era efforts along the same lines. But saying that is damning with faint praise.
A compilation of my work on this topic, on the one-year anniversary of the start of Vladimir Putin's attempt to conquer Ukraine.
Giving recent Ukrainian refugees the right to permanent residency in the US will avert potential tragedy for them, and benefit the US economy.
Hungary's inflation hits 24.5 percent—the highest in the European Union—and Orbán's price controls aren't helping.
Providing legal ways to work or seek protection in America is the only viable way to reduce illegal immigration.
The flaws in the states' position are revealed by their own governors' statements about the evils of socialism and the crisis at the border.
Western nations should adopt a general policy of granting refuge to Russians seeking to avoid conscription, and otherwise fleeing Vladimir Putin's increasingly repressive regime.
The program differs in several ways from Uniting for Ukraine and other previous private migrant sponsorship policies.
A new State Department initiative will let American citizens sponsor refugees fleeing danger.
The interview covers the Uniting for Ukraine program, the expansion of private refugee sponsorship to cover migrants from elsewhere, and various potential objections to these policies.
Responses to some of the most common queries I have gotten.