Asians have done it again. Once again, they’ve debunked the diversity dogma that prevails at universities and elsewhere, including the canard that minorities are held back because of white privilege, which is itself a canard. How have Asians done this? By achieving...
Immigrants
The Excuse Is Immigration, but Federal Checkpoints Violate Everyone’s Rights
Federal agents set up shop in New Hampshire last week. They ran a Constitutionally-illegal checkpoint, violating the Fourth Amendment rights of countless Americans. The big reward? They arrested 25 illegal immigrants, seven of them children. More than half of those...
A Kind Word on Behalf of the Mexicans
“The immigration problem” or “the border problem” has been a heated topic of debate and politicking in recent years. (This recent spurt is only the most recent in a series that goes back for centuries in U.S. history.) In large part this debate pertains to the entry...
Here’s the real ‘immigration problem’ Trump should be tackling
With the uproar over President Trump's new travel ban and the GOP plan to repeal-and-replace Obamacare, scant attention is being paid to the opening President Donald Trump seems to have created for immigration reform. The Washington Post, no fan of the president, has...
Criminal Immigrants: Their Numbers, Demographics, and Countries of Origin
In his first week in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security to deport most illegal immigrants who come in contact with law enforcement.1 His order is based on the widespread perception that illegal...
Refugees, Immigration, and the Trolley Problem
During the presidential campaign Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, tweeted a picture of a bowl of Skittles candies along with the caption: “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take handful? That’s our Syrian refugee problem.”...
More Praise for Immigrants
My old friend Jon Basil Utley has a well-timed piece in The American Conservative under the applause-worthy title "In Praise of Immigrants." Utley, who is the publisher of The American Conservative, writes: "Three new technologies of the last 20 years made America’s...
Report: The Myth of the Government-Dependent Immigrant
The notion that immigrants come to the United States to access public programs has become something of a popular myth. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), better known as welfare reform, introduced a five-year ban on...
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