I know there’s a bill circulating in Congress now, but even still I’m surprised at the apparent suddenness immigration has moved from back burner to front. I don’t that I have too much more to say beyond what I chipped in with a couple weeks ago, but here’s some assorted reading:
Brad DeLong challenges Paul Krugman’s anti-immigration stance, reminding us that "The net benefits from immigration including the large gains to the immigrants themselves are enormous. We shouldn’t forget that."
Ezra Klein also takes on Krugman, but seems to buy into the credential illusion.
Colorblind Society reads this week’s protest as a "demographic tipping point" revealing a climax of party alignment. A question I have: don’t the Dems also have a nativist contingent? Also, I’d warn against demographic determinism; at some future point it’s possible to imagine recent immigrants voting for a Christian Socialist-style conservative party, against the liberal candidates favored by the professional classes.
Who knew, for example, that Massachusetts had its very own anti-immigration candidate for Senate?
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