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Senate Immigration Bill Authorizes E-Verify as Surveillance Tracking

  • By: David Bier
  • 08/08/2013

The Senate immigration bill (S. 744) is immense, so most Americans (and, more importantly, journalists) can be forgiven for missing the part that authorizes…

Immigration

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Raul Labrador’s Sane Immigration Policy Reflects His “Libertarian Streak”

  • By: David Bier
  • 08/02/2013

Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) has led the effort in the House to fix immigration laws in the most conservative and free market way possible.

Immigration

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House National ID E-Verify Bill: 6 Dangerous Provisions it Includes (And 5 Worker Protections it Excludes)

  • By: David Bier
  • 07/31/2013

The House of Representatives has passed out of committee a bill (H.R. 1772) to mandate E-Verify electronic employment verification for all employers. This bill…

Consumer Freedom

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House National ID E-Verify Bill: 5 Worker Protections it Excludes (And 6 Dangerous Provisions it Includes)

  • By: David Bier
  • 07/31/2013

The House of Representatives has passed out of committee a bill (H.R. 1772) to mandate E-Verify electronic employment verification for all employers. This bill…

Consumer Freedom

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Gallup: Record Opposition to Closed Borders

  • By: David Bier
  • 07/15/2013

A record number of Americans favor allowing more foreigners to enter and live in the United States each year. Nearly a quarter of Americans (23…

Immigration

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What the Senate Immigration Bill Got Right

  • By: David Bier
  • 06/28/2013

The Senate’s passage of its immigration reform bill is a meaningful victory for free markets. Free markets ought to extend beyond borders. As has been…

Immigration

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DOMA Decision: Win for the Rights of U.S. Citizens to Freely Associate with Foreigners

  • By: David Bier
  • 06/27/2013

“We received a cold, brief letter from the Immigration Service notifying us that our petition had been denied. Why? Because we’re both men.” That was…

Immigration

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Border Security Doesn’t Require “Invading” the Border

  • By: David Bier
  • 06/26/2013

When President Bush left office in January 2009, there were about 30,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. If the Senate immigration bill (S. 744) passes, this…

Consumer Freedom

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No Help Wanted: Unions Shut Out Foreign Students

  • By: David Bier
  • 06/25/2013

Union-backed provisions in the Senate immigration bill would punish organizations that coordinate visits for foreign students who spend summers traveling and working in America.

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E-Verify: A Boon for Lawyers, Bad for Employers

  • By: David Bier
  • 06/24/2013

I have written extensively about the threats to Americans’ civil liberties from E-Verify, the employment verification system contained within the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform (CIR)…

Immigration

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E-Verify National ID System Threatens Americans’ Privacy

  • By: David Bier
  • 06/18/2013

“I’m not a criminal, so there’s really no reason for me to be in a criminal database.” That was James Shepherd, a Kentucky native…

Immigration

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Free Labor Markets: Why Immigrant Riots Aren’t in America’s Future

  • By: David Bier
  • 06/12/2013

Sweden’s recent immigrant riots demonstrate America’s large advantage over Europe in assimilating immigrants.

Labor and Employment

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Graph: More Visas, Less Illegal Immigration

  • By: David Bier
  • 06/04/2013

The graph below comes from University of Pennsylvania economist Douglas Massey. It depicts the three ways Mexican migrants have come to the United States–guest…

Immigration

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Senate Bill: Better for Legal Immigration

  • By: David Bier
  • 06/03/2013

Free market immigration advocates recognize that freeing up America’s legal immigration system creates economic benefits for Americans while simultaneously expanding their rights of…

Immigration

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Senate Bill Won’t Stop Illegal Immigration Without More Work Visas

  • By: David Bier
  • 05/31/2013

When the Senate “Gang of 8” released their immigration reform principles earlier this year, they made an important admission: that drastic restrictions on low-skilled…

Immigration

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Entrepreneurship Visas in Senate Immigration Bill Are Critical

  • By: David Bier
  • 05/23/2013

This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Gang of 8 immigration bill. One provision of this bill will be welcome news to potential…

Immigration

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Five Reasons Immigration Creates Economic Benefits

  • By: David Bier
  • 05/22/2013

First, if each new immigrant lowers living standards, new people also lower living standards. But without new people, America’s economy would lack the workers it…

Immigration

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What Happened to U.S. Wages During Mass Immigration?

  • By: David Bier
  • 05/20/2013

America’s immigration debate often focuses on how immigrants affect the welfare state, even though many immigration restrictionists would oppose immigration even if we did…

Immigration

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Could a Unionized Federal Employee Reject a Visa Application for Political Reasons?

  • By: David Bier
  • 05/17/2013

Now that IRS officials have been caught red-handed targeting conservative organizations, it is reasonable to ask whether officials at other federal agencies also need more…

Labor and Employment

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Sorry, Daily Beast: E-Verify Will Be National ID

  • By: David Bier
  • 05/13/2013

Daily Beast blogger Justin Green, who blogs on columnist David Frum’s Daily Beast blog, has responded to Wired’s recent article “Biometric Database of All…

Consumer Freedom

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Milton Friedman, Immigration, and Birth Control

  • By: David Bier
  • 05/13/2013

Milton Friedman, perhaps the most important free market economist and libertarian activist of the 20th century, is also the favorite of immigration restrictionists for comments he…

Immigration

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Heritage Immigration Report Implies 70% of Americans “Increase Poverty”

  • By: David Bier
  • 05/10/2013

The Heritage Foundation’s new report on the fiscal costs of legalization for unauthorized immigrants concluded that it will cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion. Yesterday, I…

Immigration

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Seven Ways Heritage Concluded Immigration Reform Will Cost $6.3 Trillion

  • By: David Bier
  • 05/09/2013

The Heritage Foundation’s report this week that suggests legalization for unauthorized immigrants will result in a $6.3 billion fiscal deficit is an important conversation…

Consumer Freedom

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John Locke’s Response to Heritage: Don’t Blame Immigrants for Fiscal Problems

  • By: David Bier
  • 05/08/2013

Washington's largest conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, has released a study that suggests legalization for illegal immigrants will cost taxpayers trillions of dollars over the next…

Immigration

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Conservatives Must Reject the “Poor Are Parasites” Narrative

  • By: David Bier
  • 05/07/2013

When Mitt Romney made his comments about the 47 percent of Americans who don’t pay taxes and were supposedly “dependent on government,” many conservatives rightly…

Immigration

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Anti-Immigration Group: “They’re Taking Your Jobs!”

  • By: David Bier
  • 05/03/2013

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the close-America’s-doors lobby group, has a facile new study that purports to show “there really are no jobs…

Labor and Employment

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What Are the National ID Implications of the Senate Immigration Bill?

  • By: David Bier
  • 05/03/2013

1. ID standards: The bill requires all employers to check photo IDs of all employees they hire—any employee who fails to present a photo ID…

Consumer Freedom

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Gang Of 8’s Euphemism For National ID System: “Identity Authentication Mechanism”

  • By: David Bier
  • 04/29/2013

Our new euphemism for a national identification system is “identity authentication mechanism.” The Gang of 8, the leaders of which are proponents of biometric national…

Consumer Freedom

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CEI Study: Cost Of Keeping One Unauthorized Immigrant From Getting A Job — $13,000

  • By: David Bier
  • 04/23/2013

If Americans truly want to ensure no unauthorized immigrants work in the United States, they better get ready to pay top dollar. E-Verify, the electronic…

Immigration

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Four Of The Worst Arguments Against The Immigration Bill

  • By: David Bier
  • 04/18/2013

Since the Gang of 8 released their proposal, the desperation from those who want to see this bill die — and any hope of…

Immigration

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