“The Case For Immigration” podcast explores issues in American history, economics, political philosophy, and culture and argues that large-scale immigration benefits Americans across income levels and strengthens American culture. The podcast argues that cuts to current immigration levels would leave America weaker, smaller, less innovative, less optimistic, less religious, and less able to meet its fiscal obligations. The podcast is hosted by Nathan Brown, an immigration lawyer in Fresno, C ...
I recently spoke with immigration activist, Sergio Cortes. He runs a media project called uSpark, focusing on California's Central Valley. Sergio talks about how the aggressive immigration policies of the last four years affected immigrants in California's Central Valley. https://usparkvalley.com/By The Case for Immigration
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How Immigrants Strengthen American Institutions
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In this episode, Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Insitute, joins us to discuss his recently released book "Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions." We cover a range of topics including immigrants' trust in host country institutions, their impact on welfare programs and unions, and the growin…
Jonathan Haggerty joins us to talk about the most effective ways for the U.S. to enforce its immigration laws. He explains how harsh immigration enforcement is less effective at catching dangerous criminals and contrasts the Trump Administration's approach with its predecessors. We then discuss the politics of immigration and the trajectory toward …
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Can Americanness Be Bigger Than Whiteness?
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We recently spoke with history professor Johann Neem about his recent article Unbecoming American, which was featured in the Hedgehog Review. Professor Neem describes his family's experience immigrating from India and argues that recent tropes attempting to reduce American identity to nothing more than whiteness make it harder for immigrants to mak…
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U.S. immigration policy from one Venezuelan conservative economist's perspective
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In this episode, we chat with Daniel Di Martino, a politically conservative international student from Venezuela and Ph.D. candidate in economics at Columbia University. Daniel recounts his experience growing up in Venezuela and shares his perspective on the nation's ongoing economic and political turmoil. Daniel also assesses the U.S. immigration …
I recently spoke with immigration analyst Sam Peak about what changes to immigration may be coming under President Biden and changing attitudes among some on the Right toward immigration.By The Case for Immigration
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ICE Controversies in the Fourth Year of Trump's Presidency
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I recently spoke with Los Angeles Times reporter Andrea Castillo about an immigrant suicide at an ICE detention center, protesters getting pepper sprayed by guards at a detention center, and litigation by ICE against California over its attempt to ban private prisons.By The Case For Immigration
I recently spoke with Shikha Dalmia, a senior policy analyst for the Reason Foundation, about the increasingly tyrannical anti-immigration practices of the Trump Administration, the harassment of students and doctors, ICE being used against US citizens, and nationalism abroad.By The Case For Immigration
I spoke with historian Tyler Anbinder about his book, City of Dreams: The 400 Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. In a wide-ranging conversation, we talked about Irish, German, Italian, and Jewish immigrants; riots, Abraham Lincoln, gangs, anarchists, the abolition of slavery, Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, Martin Scorsese, and the Ameri…
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The Surprising Origins of America's Most Notorious Anti-Immigration Law
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I recently spoke with author Daniel Okrent about his book, The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America.By The Case For Immigration
We recently spoke with Ilya Somin, law professor at George Mason University, about his new book Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom. His book is available on May 22, 2020 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Free-Move-Migration-Political-Freedom/dp/0190054581By The Case for Immigration
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Was DACA Illegal? Was Trump's Rescission Illegal?
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Could DACA be a good policy, but also illegal at the same time? Should we care if a policy is unconstitutional when we like the policy? Ilya Shapiro explains why he supports DACA and relief for young people who were brought into the United States illegally, but thinks that the Obama administration lacked constitutional authority to implement it. I …
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Government's Constitutional Hall Pass Against Immigrants
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7. Immigration & the American Worker
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5. The Life-Boat is Not Full; Also It’s Not a Life-Boat
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The Dream Act & Deferred Action, A Partial History
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