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Immigration

Immigration Policy: An Argument for Opening America's Borders
The empirical and economic benefits of open borders
Shikha Dalmia
December 7, 2012
Alabama's War on Immigrants
The state's harsh immigration law will only worsen its economic woes.
Shikha Dalmia
November 15, 2011
Why Are Illegal Immigrants Declining
Anthony Randazzo
September 26, 2011, 8:23pm
Michele Bachmann's Unholy Crusade
The GOP presidential hopeful bashes unauthorized workers.
Shikha Dalmia
August 30, 2011
A Laughing Matter
Immigration policy is a joke on both the left and right.
A. Barton Hinkle
August 26, 2011
Obama's Anti-Immigrant Stance
Under the guise of immigration enforcement, the White House pushes a pro-union agenda.
Shikha Dalmia
July 12, 2011
The Return of E-Verify
State governments embrace a dangerous employment verification database.
Mike Riggs
June 23, 2011
Muddled Masses
The immigration detention system treats suspected illegal aliens like criminals, but with fewer rights.
Jesse James DeConto
June 13, 2011
Is Obama Serious About Immigration Reform?
His speech this week suggests that he's not.
David Harsanyi
May 11, 2011
A Pragmatic Champion of Liberty
Gary Johnson's cross-political appeal will help both the country and the liberty movement.
Shikha Dalmia
May 3, 2011
Protecting Immigrants From Government Exploitation
Trading birthright citizenship for an expanded guest worker program is a bad deal for both immigrants and Americans.
Shikha Dalmia
April 5, 2011
The Bogus Case Against Birthright Citizenship
Anti-immigration hysteria has blinded conservatives to their own principles
Shikha Dalmia
March 15, 2011
A Birthright, and a Mess of Pottage
The misguided effort to remove birthright citizenship
Steve Chapman
January 17, 2011
Immigrant Bashing By Immigrants
The GOP's ethnic candidates won by embracing a restrictionist agenda in the midterm elections.
Shikha Dalmia
November 9, 2010
ObamaCare's First Major Casualties
Why the new health care law is bad for gays and aliens
Shikha Dalmia
October 4, 2010
Giving Birth to Immigration Fears
Why birthright citizenship is nothing to worry about
Steve Chapman
August 16, 2010
Born in the U.S.A.
The misguided movement to strip birthright citizenship from the Constitution
Damon W. Root
August 11, 2010
The Spanish Prisoner
The unequal burdens of Arizona's immigration law
Jacob Sullum
August 4, 2010
The Immigration Question
Why we should let more people in
John Stossel
July 22, 2010
Obama’s Immigration Distraction
Even immigrants are shunning America’s sputtering economy
Shikha Dalmia
July 13, 2010
Citizenship Should Remain a Birthright
The latest bad idea about immigration from Arizona
Steve Chapman
June 28, 2010
The Global Grapevine
Sociologist Gary Alan Fine explains what rumors tell us about America's relationship to globalization
Brian Doherty
June 4, 2010
Legalize Immigration
It's time to focus on letting legal immigrants in.
Steve Chapman
May 31, 2010
The Bogus Constitutional Arguments of Arizona's Ultra-Restrictionists
States can't write their own immigration laws
Shikha Dalmia
May 11, 2010
Arizona's Un-American Immigration Law
How the state's harsh new law undermines American exceptionalism
Shikha Dalmia
May 5, 2010
Arrest Everybody
Arizona encourages police to emulate "the toughest sheriff in America."
Jacob Sullum
May 5, 2010
Immigration Isn't the Problem
The real issue is border security
David Harsanyi
May 3, 2010
Mysteries of an Immigration Law
Is Arizona's new law a menace?
Steve Chapman
April 29, 2010
How Immigration Crackdowns Backfire
The trouble with Arizona's draconian new law
Steve Chapman
April 22, 2010
Don't Let Obama Touch Immigration Reform
The leading proposal will curtail liberties without making life better for immigrants.
Shikha Dalmia
April 13, 2010
Smoke a Joint, Lose Your Country
Rigid deportation rules make a mockery of justice.
Jacob Sullum
April 7, 2010
Don't Let President Obama Get Near Immigration Reform
Shikha Dalmia
April 7, 2010, 12:30pm
ObamaCare's Other Nemesis: Undocumented Workers
Shikha Dalmia
March 11, 2010, 8:53pm
The Paulpocalypse
A longtime Ron Paul watcher wonders if his CPAC victory is the dawn of a new age, or the beginning of the end
Brian Doherty
February 24, 2010
Immigration and Crime
There's nothing to fear from illegal immigrants
Steve Chapman
February 22, 2010
Illegal Immigrants and Crime
Adrian Moore
February 18, 2010, 6:58pm
The Lou Dobbs Option
The Senate health care bill's anti-undocumented-immigrant provisions ought to be deal-breakers for civil libertarians
Shikha Dalmia and Harris Kenny
January 15, 2010
Strangers in a Strange Land
Forget man's inhumanity to man. District 9 is a deft satire of man's inhumanity to alien
Peter Suderman
August 14, 2009
America's Real Immigration Problem
Shikha Dalmia
August 4, 2009, 10:10pm
Nativist International
Bribing immigrants to leave
Jeff Winkler
August 3, 2009
Do Immigrants Make Cities Safer? The El Paso Miracle
How can a comparatively poor, high-immigration town that sits across the border from super-violent Ciudad Juarez be one of the safest big cities in America?
Radley Balko
July 14, 2009
I.T. Go Home
Skilled immigrant exodus
Brian Doherty
May 29, 2009
Solving the Immigration Problem—Once and For All
The true story of the Save the Endangered Americans Act of 2018
Ross Levatter
May 14, 2009
Immigrants to America: Keep Your H1-Bs
Shikha Dalmia
April 10, 2009, 12:08pm
Goodbye Chang, So Long Singh
America's real immigration problem will soon be returning emigres
Shikha Dalmia
March 23, 2009
Immigrants Have Never Been Less Interested in America
Much-needed, highly-skilled immigrants are returning to their home countries
Shikha Dalmia
March 23, 2009
Border Wars Take On a Musical Tone
Anthony Randazzo
March 18, 2009, 11:46am
Global economic growth penalizes US
Samuel Staley
March 8, 2009, 11:12pm
Shot by the Sheriff
Artists protest a border crackdown
Mike Riggs
February 27, 2009
Checkpoint Diego
Don't go near the border
Radley Balko
January 27, 2009