Press accounts abound of the problems of agricultural producers who cannot find workers to harvest their crops. Even NYC Mayor Bloomberg, who has a penchant for…
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A Dearth of Agricultural Workers?
Politicians Promote Internal Brain Drain
Professor Norman Matloff often speaks of the “internal brain drain” that occurs when the importation of foreign tech workers drives “able Americans out of scientific and…
House Passes Homeland Security Funding Bill, Immigration Front-and-Center
The House passed late Thursday its fiscal year 2013 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill 234-182. The bill, H.R. 5855, would provide $39.1 billion in…
Do We Really Need to Expand Immigration in the Name of Economic Prosperity?
A new effort is under way to justify an expansion of immigrant admissions as necessary to stimulate new U.S. economic growth. The high U.S. unemployment –…
Pity the Farmers?
The media tend to echo the wails of farmers who claim they cannot find the workers to harvest their crops because of enhanced border enforcement and…