The game enables you to develop a would-be immigrant character with a wide range of possible characteristics and see whether you can get him or her admitted into the United States.
The 2-1 ruling (divided along surprising ideological lines) is a win for the administration. But they may well still end up losing in the end.
"Government in general does a lot of things that aren't necessary," says Jared Polis.
The program extends the successful Uniting for Ukraine policy to migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti.
Players can experience for themselves how difficult, expensive, and exhausting it is to come to the country legally.
Cato Institute immigration policy expert Alex Nowrasteh explains the close parallels between a policy most conservatives hate, and one most them reflexively support.
Americans will need a visa to visit Europe in 2024. Meanwhile, Europeans who have been to Cuba are discovering they can't come to the U.S., because terrorism.
The Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh and attorney Francis Menton debate immigration policy.
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The Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh and attorney Francis Menton debate immigration policy.
The decision is an unsurprising, straightforward application of the text of the relevant statute. It could have a major impact.
Horrible things are happening to vulnerable people, but we cannot help them by sending groups of vigilantes or law enforcement officers to hunt them.
Taking this step would benefit both the migrants themselves and the American economy. It would also eliminate burdens on local governments.
Though the 2024 Republican candidate's proposals vary in seriousness, they feature plenty of prohibition and brute government force.
It has many good points. But I have some reservations and questions.
It's a familiar program. And it will result in higher prices, slower growth, and fewer jobs.
Over 200,000 dependent visa holders are still waiting for relief.
Some scholars and commentators argue that legacy preferences at public universities are unconstitutional because they are a form of hereditary privilege. If so, the same is likely true of the far more consequential hereditary privilege of citizenship that severely restricts the right to live and work in the United States.
As Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell explains, doing so will simultaneously strengthen the US and weaken a major geopolitical rival. It can also rescue many Chinese from terrible oppression.
Topics covered include affirmative action, legacy preferences, the student loan forgiveness decision, refugee policy, indictments against Trump, Vladimir Putin, political ignorance, and more.
Achieving this goal will require a lot more than banning racial preferences in college admissions. That includes some measures that will make the political right uncomfortable, as well as the left.
A collection of links to some of my previous writings on these topics, which I think remain relevant today.
This is true despite claims to the contrary by some on both the left and right.
Participants included Prof. Adam Cox (NYU), David Bier (Cato), Kit Taintor (Welcome.US), and myself.
It's wrong to use human beings as pawns in an apparent political stunt.
It’s an entirely predictable consequence of an inhospitable immigration system.
Agents claimed to see a gun that wasn't there. Video reveals nervous officers with a hunting mentality.
The 2024 hopeful has put together a platform full of big-government action.
Golden State municipalities are finally overturning their anti-cruising ordinances.
The U.S. is keeping talented foreigners away—and failing to retain them.
A leading US expert on Russia advocates outreach to Putin's Russian opponents and encouraging emigration from Russia. The best way to encourage Russians to leave is to allow more of them to come to the West.
The Supreme Court did not overturn the standing holding of MAssachusetts v. EPA, but it may have left it on life support.
Today’s decision “is narrow and simply maintains the longstanding jurisprudential status quo,” wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the majority.
The 8-1 decision is a major win for Biden and executive enforcement discretion. I think the Court got the right result, but for the wrong reasons.
The definition excludes a vast range of people fleeing horrific violence and oppression.
Maria Elena Reimers has been caught in legal limbo for years.
Snooping through emails, video, and photos isn’t the same as stumbling on containers full of cocaine.
The bill would grant permanent residency rights to many thousands of Ukrainians who have entered the US since 2014. But its exact scope is unclear.
A new Cato Institute report highlights just how hard it is to come to the U.S. legally.
The bipartisan legislation would grant permanent residency and work rights to some 400,000 refugees from Venezuela's brutal socialist dictatorship.
Cato Institute immigration policy expert David Bier outlines how the US immigration system bars the vast majority of potential migrants, much like Prohibition banned almost all uses of alcohol.
Participants include Prof. Adam Cox (NYU), David Bier (Cato), Kit Taintor (Welcome.US), and myself.
Criticizing the law by calling for people to break it is an American tradition.
My response to Rob Natelson's argument that Madison's Report is largely irrelevant to the constitutional debate over immigration.
The Rubin Report host makes the case for the Florida governor, who courageously defied lockdowns but is quick to use the state to punish corporations he doesn't like.
Memorial Day ushers in the unofficial start of summer. But if your pool is missing lifeguards, issues with immigration may be the culprit.
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.
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