Friday, May 7th, 2010
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Entries Tagged as 'immigration'
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
To help Haiti’s earthquake victims, change U.S. immigration laws – washingtonpost.com
After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 2005, one of the principal ways its victims helped themselves was by leaving. Katrina prompted one of the biggest resettlements in American history. Who would have blocked Interstate 10 with armed guards, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to suffer in the disaster zone, [...]
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Marginal Revolution: How to help Haiti
…contact the White House and tell them that you support granting Haitians Temporary Protected Status (TPS) immediately. TPS is a form of temporary humanitarian immigration relief given to nationals of countries that have suffered severe disasters, natural or man-made. (For example, El Salvador got TPS was after the country was hit by a terrible earthquake [...]
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Obama isn’t anti-gun, he’s anti illegal guns.
Pro border control folks often bristle when you accuse them of being anti-immigrant. “I’m not anti-immigration, I’m anti-illegal immigration. I have no problem with immigration, so long as they follow our laws, and don’t try to jump the line.” You know what–they’re right. It’s not fair to accuse them of being against all immigration. It’s [...]
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
The Nation Is Not A House
The Nation Is Not A House Let’s reflect on the rhetoric used by those who oppose greater freedom for people to move back and forth across political borders. Opponents of the freedom to move frequently analogize a nation to a house. “You lock your house, don’t you?” these anti-immigrationists ask—implying that what makes sense for [...]
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Is xenophobia an evolved response to disease/parasites?
Evolved Disease-Avoidance Mechanisms and Contemporary Xenophobic Attitudes Ethnic outgroups are often blamed for outbreaks of epidemic diseases, and these outbreaks can inspire violently xenophobic reactions to outsiders (Goldhagen, 1996; Markel, 1999; Oldstone, 1998). Foreigners are also associated with semantic concepts that connote disease. This association is evident in xenophobic propaganda, in which ethnic outgroups are [...]
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Immigration official coerces young immigrant for sex
An Agent, a Green Card, and a Demand for Sex “I want sex,” he said on the recording. “One or two times. That’s all. You get your green card. You won’t have to see me anymore.” She reluctantly agreed to a future meeting. But when she tried to leave his car, he demanded oral sex [...]
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
On the origins of Russian supermodels
Where did all the beautiful Russians come from? To put it bluntly, in the Soviet Union there was no market for female beauty. No fashion magazines featured beautiful women, since there weren’t any fashion magazines. No TV series depended upon beautiful women for high ratings, since there weren’t any ratings. There weren’t many men rich [...]
Wednesday, September 1st, 2004
Mexican vagina control
Opponent of immigration often cite the negative externalities that Hispanic immigrants impose on the rest of us as reason to deport them. However, if it's worth preventing Mexicans from crossing the border, would not the same logic apply to preventing Mexicans from crossing vaginas? Yet, you rarely hear immigration foes calling for compulsory birth control. [...]
