Matthew Ward (Southern Mississippi): They Say Bad Things Come in Threes: How Economic, Political and Cultural Shifts Facilitated Contemporary Anti-Immigration Activism in the United States. David Noriega on the anti-immigration activist who set the stage for Donald Trump: Maria Espinoza’s Remembrance Project pioneered the political strategy of using the stories of families of Americans killed by undocumented immigrants to argue for restrictions on immigration. Trump and the riot of the elites: Skeptics of Mideast immigration understandably want to guard against terrorist blowback created by U.S. intervention there. Do conservatives really want to ban only Muslim immigrants? There is little evidence that Christian immigrants are welcome, either. The rights of refugees who do wrong: Nelson Kargbo was a child soldier from Sierra Leone given asylum in America — then the government tried to send him back. The number of child migrants arriving on the US’s doorstep has doubled since last year.
From The Atlantic, David Frum on America’s immigration challenge: Coming to the United States would benefit millions — but policymakers seldom ask whether their arrival would benefit the United States. Esther Yu-Hsi Lee on the prison-to-deportation pipeline that keeps punishing immigrants. Remember that shot fired a few months ago in the Great Immigration vs. Wages War? Turns out it was a dud. You can’t cut unemployment by keeping out immigrants: The Fed — not immigrants — controls the labor market.
