Category: Immigration

Huge Immigration Bust

Huge Immigration Bust Plus: Light-rail killing, short-term rental ban ineffective, Perónism strikes back, and more… LIZ WOLFE Do me a favor and tell the Reason overlords what you really think of Roundup. Truly: your feedback helps us improve this newsletter! (Unless it’s unhinged, in which case, it doesn’t.) […]

On working with illegals

There are too many foreigners in this country. Josiah Lippincott Jul 18, 2025 I know a thing or two about illegal immigrant workers. In 2016, after graduating from college and while waiting orders for The Basic School, I got a job as a groundskeeper for a retirement home […]

Will 1,000,000 Deportations Be Enough?

View this email in your browser READ ON SITE NOW This article is featured in the July/August 2025 Issue of TAC.  In the waning days of President Donald Trump’s first administration, migrant caravans surged northward. The migrants themselves admitted they were coming in anticipation of President Joe Biden’s inauguration and […]

The Trial

Sponsored by Reaktion Books In the Review’s June 26 issue, Rozina Ali investigates the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Mahmoud Khalil—and the government’s attempts around the country to deport permanent residents, green card holders, visitors, and, on occasion, American citizens without due process and in violation of habeas […]

Dave Smith and Alex Nowrasteh debate immigration

Dave Smith and Alex Nowrasteh debate the resolution, “Government restrictions on the immigration of peaceful and healthy people make sense from a libertarian standpoint, especially in present-day America.” Comedian and host of the podcast, Part of the Problem, Dave Smith defends the resolution. Taking the negative is Alex Nowrasteh, […]

A Sordid Immigration Racket in Texas

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025 Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. – Herbert Spencer, Social Statics [1851] HORNBERGER’S BLOG May 5, 2025 A Sordid Immigration Racket in Texas I have long written about the U.S. immigration […]

The Assimilation Myth: America

Persistence and the Not-So Melting Pot Inquisitive Bird Apr 09, 2025 Introduction When it comes to the topic of immigration, it is widely believed that assimilation is both important (normatively) and rapid and widespread (descriptively). Rapid assimilation is often simply taken for granted. For example, in economic analyses […]

Immigration is a class matter

Workers March/April 2025 Border control at Manchester Airport. Photo Chris Craggs/Alamy Stock Photo. Massive migration into Britain is hitting pay, working conditions and vital infrastructure. It is an attack on the working class, and requires a working class response… For decades British governments have encouraged massively increased immigration, […]

Why We Must Move Left On Immigration

The Emerging Zionist Dictatorship is Weaponizing Anti-Immigration as an Instrument of Political Repression By Keith Preston April 3, 2025 In the present political era, we find ourselves at a crossroads—one defined not by the traditional left/right divide, but by an epochal shift in the architecture of ruling class […]

America on ICE

Sponsored by the Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology Julia Preston In Trump’s Dragnet Over the past two months, the president has been doing just what he promised during his campaign: assaulting every aspect of the US immigration system. Adam Thirlwell Rotten in Denmark Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom is […]

A Conservative’s Take on the Mahmoud Khalil Detainment

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-xscm2-… On this edition of Parallax Views, Andrew Day—senior editor at The American Conservative and contributing fellow at Defense Priorities—joins the show to unpack his provocative article, “Mahmoud Khalil, Viewed From the Right.” In our conversation, Andrew explains why he believes MAGA conservatives must oppose the arrest […]

Deportation Standoff

Deportation Standoff Plus: Rehiring federal workers, using Signal to orchestrate bombing the Houthis, and more… LIZ WOLFE Tren de Aragua (and other) deportations continue: Yesterday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg “ruled his temporary order will remain in effect, restricting new deportations [of accused Venezuelan gang members] until the men […]

Andrew Day: Mahmoud Khalil, Viewed From the Right

View this email in your browser READ ON SITE NOW      The arrest and possible deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist, has galvanized the left and drawn criticism from liberals and civil libertarians. Even some neoconservatives have condemned the White House’s aggressive action earlier this month. MAGA conservatives should […]

Beatings, overcrowding and food deprivation: US deportees face distressing human rights conditions in El Salvador’s mega-prison

The Conversation El Salvador President Nayib Bukele framed his offer to house “dangerous American criminals” and “criminals from any country” as a win-win for all. The fee for transferring detainees to a newly built Salvadoran mega-prison “would be relatively low” for the U.S. but enough to make El […]